One of the Pan American Health Organization's core mandates is to collect and disseminate information on health conditions and trends in the countries and territories of the Americas. Beginning in the mid-1920s, the Organization began including such information within the pages of the Annual Report of the Director. In 1954 PAHO broke new ground by issuing its first comprehensive report exclusively devoted to tracking and analyzing the Region's health situation. Every four years since then, PAHO has continued to publish Health in the Americas. It has become the Organization's flag-ship publication, informing Member Governments on public health issues critical to policy development and decision-making. The two volumes of Health in the Americas, 2007 Edition, present information for the 2000-2005 period. Volume I examines health in the Americas from a Regional perspective. Among other issues, the volume's six chapters analyze: the political, social, and economic context of health, as well as important demographic and mortality trends; the leading diseases and health problems in the period and efforts to prevent and control them; the structure and functioning of health systems in the Region and efforts to reform them, and the scope and impact of international cooperation inhealth. Volume II tackles these same issues from a national perspective and includes information on progress towards attaining the Millennium Development Goals. This volume has 46 chapters covering information and analysis foreach of the countries or territories in the Americas. Health in the Americas, 2007 Edition, offers up-to-date information on health in the Region to PAHO's shareholders the countries' health authorities. It also continues its long tradition of utility to other government officials, public health and medical professionals, researchers, librarians, students, and anyone interested in health and human development.

Health in the Americas 2007

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Pan Amer Health Org

One of the Pan American Health Organization's core mandates is to collect and disseminate information on health conditions and trends in the countries and territories of the Americas. Beginning in the mid-1920s, the Organization began including such information within the pages of the Annual Report of the Director. In 1954 PAHO broke new ground by issuing its first comprehensive report exclusively devoted to tracking and analyzing the Region's health situation. Every four years since then, PAHO has continued to publish Health in the Americas. It has become the Organization's flag-ship publication, informing Member Governments on public health issues critical to policy development and decision-making.The two volumes of Health in the Americas, 2007 Edition, present information for the 2000-2005 period. Volume I examines health in the Americas from a Regional perspective. Among other issues, the volume's six chapters analyze:the political, social, and economic context of health, as well as important demographic and mortality trends;the leading diseases and health problems in the period and efforts to prevent and control them;the structure and functioning of health systems in the Region and efforts to reform them, andthe scope and impact of international cooperation inhealth.Volume II tackles these same issues from a national perspective and includes information on progress towards attaining the Millennium Development Goals. This volume has 46 chapters covering information and analysis foreach of the countries or territories in the Americas.Health in the Americas, 2007 Edition, offers up-to-date information on health in the Region to PAHO's shareholders the countries' health authorities. It also continues its long tradition of utility to other government officials, public health and medical professionals, researchers, librarians, students, and anyone interested in health and human development.

Health in the Americas 2007 (Scientific and Technical Publications, Vol. II - Countries)

Unhappy Hours: Alcohol and Partner Aggression in the Americas (edited by Kathryn Graham, Sharon Bernards, Myriam Munné, and Sharon Wilsnack) is the Organization s latest contribution in the effort to better understand partner violence and, in so doing, find more effective interventions to right this wrong. The book explores the relationship between alcohol consumption and partner violence gathering information from both the aggressor's and the victim s perspective. It brings to light evidence of alcohol's impact on partner aggression from 10 countries in the Americas (Argentina, Belize, Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Uruguay, and the United States), and represents an unprecedented effort to collect and analyze information from the general population that can be compared across countries. Despite wide differences between countries and cultures, there are common characteristics and trends across countries regarding the relationship between alcohol and partner violence. This publication will be of interest to a variety of audiences, including the academic and research communities, students, health promoters, health professionals, communicators, ministries of public health, and the victims of partner aggression.

Unhappy Hours: Alcohol and Partner Aggression in the Americas (Scientific and Technical Publication)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Health in the Americas 2012 Edition Regional Outlook and Country Profile

In recent years, zoonoses and communicable diseases common to man and animals have gained increasing attention worldwide. Human diseases that have their origins in infected animals, such as AIDS or Creutzfeldt-Jakob, have highlighted the need for a better understanding of animal diseases. The ease and speed of modern travel facilitates the spread of diseases once confined to specific geographic areas, as recently occurred with the widely publicized severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic. Animal migration and trade pose a similar threat, as was shown by the outbreaks in the United States of West Nile fever, and most recently, monkeypox—two diseases not previously known in the Western Hemisphere. Each of these examples highlights the need for accurate, up-to-date information, such as that presented in the latest edition of Zoonoses and Communicable Diseases Common to Man and Animals. 
This edition, published for the first time in three volumes, covers: 
I. Bacterioses and mycoses II. Chlamydioses, rickettsioses, and viroses, and III. Parasitoses 
This series provides a detailed overview of the most important historic and emerging zoonotic diseases, such as Ebola hemorrhagic fever, foot-and-mouth disease, influenza, giardiasis, Japanese encephalitis, shigellosis, and spongiform encephalopathies, with information ranging from their first appearance and most important outbreaks to the latest scientific knowledge of the diseases and their causative agents. 
The chapters provide the following key information on each disease: 
etiology geographic distribution symptoms and occurrence in man and animals source of infection and mode of transmission role of animals in its epidemiology diagnostic techniques, and prevention and control measures 
Numerous tables and figures diagramming modes of transmission complement the text. 
This book is an essential tool for biologists, parasitologists, virologists, veterinarians, physicians, epidemiologists, and workers in public health and animal health institutions, as well as professors, researchers, and students in these areas. All of these groups will find Zoonoses and Communicable Diseases Common to Man and Animals, 3rd ed. to be an invaluable addition to their collection of most-consulted reference works.

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Report on Tobacco Control in the Region of the Americas

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Addiction & Recovery

In the three years since the last road safety report was issued, the number of road traffic deaths has continued to increase throughout the Americas, reaching 154,997 deaths in 2016 (the latest year of available data). However, the death rate from road traffic crashes has remained stable (15.6 per 100,000 population in 2016 as compared to 15.9 per 100,000 population in 2013). Data presented in this report show that aspects of road safety management, legislation, and post-crash care have improved in some countries, but more work is needed to achieve the global goals toward safer transport for all.

Status of Road Safety in the Region of the Americas

Care for Mental Health Conditions in Jamaica: The Case for Investment. Evaluating the Return on Investment of Scaling Up Treatment for Depression, Anxiety, and Psychosis

Business & Money

United Nations Development Programme

United Nations Interagency Task Force on Noncommunicable Diseases

Economics

Present and Future of Birth Defects Surveillance in the Americas

The World Bank

Bicycle-sharing Systems across the United States of America

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