PAHO/IDB/World Bank shared agenda for health in the Americas

that recommendation, a regional study of the characteristics of national policies in health services research and of research studies in 15 countries of Latin

4 N um ber and percentage distribution of hospital beds by ow nership and country, around 1978.. 7 Indicesof utilization of short-stay hospitals, by size of hospital and country,

To facilitate implementation of the work plan, that same year the PAHO Secretariat made available to the national health authorities a “Guide for Evaluating the

Economic and Social Progress in Latin America—Annual Report, 1977.... Patterns of Mortality

Time and time again during this period, Governments and international bodies, public and private, have recognized that the two essential constants for progress in

Many thousands o f doctors, nurses and dentists are required to staff hospitals and other health units. Even larger num bers o f auxiliary workers are needed to

The, ten-year period 1954-1964 saw the following changes and important events which were directly or indirectly related to the health of the country: 1) the movement of the

In Table 16 are presented for 21 countries the numbers of deaths from all causes and from infectious and parasitic diseases together with rates per