Civil, political and military conflict--Natural and man-made disasters--Poverty and human suffering...As the new millennium approaches, the need for humanitarian assistance in response to these global challenges endures. Complex humanitarian emergencies demand human, financial and material resources on an international scale. This presents the global community, and particularly the health sector, with a formidable and daunting task: Faced with limited resources, how can organizations and actors simultaneously meet immediate humanitarian needs while maintaining their commitment to long term human development? More specifically, how can humanitarian relief and sustainable human development efforts be linked? From Humanitarian Assistance to Human Development responds and reacts to this question by serving as a forum for distinguished members of the health and development arena to present issues, policies and innovative programs in response. Divided into three sections, the book examines the humanitarian assistance-human development continuum within the global-policy context of human development, reviews humanitarian assistance as a social phenomena, highlights country experiences in Rwanda and Bosnia, and discusses means of relieving human suffering and restoring infrastructure and health and social services in the aftermath of conflict. In this thought-provoking, informative volume, the perspectives, experiences and proposals of specialists from academic institutions, national and international agencies and non-governmental organizations are united to help inform future policy, inspire programmatic action and, ultimately, bridge the gap between humanitarian assistance and human development.

From Humanitarian Assistance to Human Development

Macinko, James

Rodriguez-Garcia, Rosalia

Casas, Juan Antonio

Pan American Health Organization

Presents the results of a number of epidemiologic studies designed to assess the extent of the drug abuse problem in the Americas and identify lines of preventive action. The book has two parts. The first is a multi-authored collection of studies focused on the epidemiologic characteristics of the drug abuse epidemic. Studies fall into three main groups. The first provides a sample of current research designed to gauge the extent of the drug abuse problem and determine why governments are so often unprepared to respond in effective ways. The second group explores methodologies used in drug abuse research and points out the necessity of developing alternative epidemiologic surveillance systems. Papers in the third group, which considers the evaluation of preventive programmes, attempt to determine which preventive strategies are most effective and to which groups they should be directed.

Drug Abuse

Pan American Sanitary Bureau

Health, Fitness & Dieting

These ground-breaking studies have had a lasting impact and attest to the belief that public health requires a holistic point of view, rather than one limited to disease prevention and control. The papers that comprise the anthology were selected to meet two objectives: to disseminate a wide range of information and to illustrate the growth and development of health promotion as a world-wide strategy. More than 50 public health experts from four continents contributed to the anthology. Their papers illustrate the diverse nature of health promotion topics and are presented in five "Parts": Developing a Framework Building Healthy Public Policy Strengthening Community Action Developing Personal Health Skills Health Promotion for Specific Groups Key documents in the health promotion movement in the Americas-the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, Health Promotion and Equity (the Declaration of Bogot), and the Caribbean Charter for Health Promotion-supplement the text. A glossary of health promotion terms and concepts completes the collection.

Health Promotion: An Anthology

Organization, Pan American Health

This handbook blends tried-and-true disease prevention practices and behavioral science principles into a hands-on manual for health workers, community health promoters, nurses and family physicians. Many others, such as social workers and teachers, can also learn here how to promote health and prevent disease. The book offers step-by-step instruction in behavioral change techniques to use at the society, community, family, and individual levels. The author, Dr. C. David Jenkins, is an internationally known health worker, researcher, and Professor of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, of Epidemiology, and of Psychiatry. 
The book is structured into five sections, which detail theoretical and practical aspects of health promotion. Within the handbook’s pages there is an overview of principles of disease prevention and strategies of community health intervention, including practical examples and step-by-step planning. The book also includes an in-depth examination of the causes of morbidity, disability, and premature mortality that most seriously burden broad age groups across the life cycle and a review of the protective and risk factors for each of the leading forms of disability and death. Throughout its chapters, the book recommends simple, hands-on preventive interventions.

Building Better Health. A Handbook of Behavioral Change

Jenkins, C. David

This just-released publication by PAHO on adolescent health and positive behavior change greatly enhances the knowledge base on this important public health issue. It presents the first ever systematic collection and reporting of the application of behavioral change theories and models specifically to adolescents. At the same time, it represents the first attempt to incorporate a developmental perspective in the conceptual analysis of these classical theoretical constructs when applied to the various stages of adolescence. 
Cultural, ethnic, and gender differences are also given special consideration, as is the role of poverty and the ability of some adolescents to secure physical and emotional well-being despite circumstances of adversity. 
This book additionally breaks new ground in explaining why some health promotion interventions aimed at positive adolescent behavior change produce the desired results, while others fail. The thoroughness of the analysis extends to the diversity of geographical settings cited: from Africa to the United States, Canada to Jamaica, Brazil to the Netherlands, El Salvador to Japan, and India to Mexico, to name only a few. 
The experiences of the global research community presented here will undoubtedly find fertile ground among a variety of publics, including local health promoters, designers of community health promotion programs, health professionals, the academic and research community, ministries of public health and of youth affairs, those who study and those who create mass media trends, parents and teachers, school counselors, and all others who play a significant role in adolescents’ lives.

Youth: Choices and Change

Business & Money

Education & Reference

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.

Zoonoses and Communicable Diseases Common to Man and Animals, Vol. II: Chlamydioses, Rickettsioses, and Viroses, Third Edition (Scientific and Technical Publication)

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