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  • 05/28/2018 - Sustainable Health Agenda for the Americas 2018-2030: A Call to Action for Health and Wellbeing in the Americas

    The Sustainable Health Agenda for the Americas 2018-2030 (CSP29/6) represents the health sector response to commitments endorsed by PAHO Member States in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development together with unfinished business from the Millennium Development Goals and the Health Agenda for the Americas 2008-2017 and emerging regional public health challenges. It is operationalized through PAHO's strategic plans and strategies, as well as through subregional and national health plans. 

  • 05/25/2018 - 71st WHA: World Health Assembly delegates agree on new five-year strategic plan

     

  • 05/22/2018 - Webinar, 23 May 2018 : "Core Medications for Hypertension"

    Organized by PAHO as part of the activities to mark World Hypertension Day. Read about.

  • 05/21/2018 - UN-Cepal: Flagships

  • 05/21/2018 - 31/05 - World No Tobacco Day: 'Tobacco breaks hearts'

    Eliminating tobacco use can prevent millions of people dying from heart attacks and strokes.

  • 05/18/2018 - Publication PAHO/WHO: Expanding the Roles of Nurses in Primary Health Care

    Nursing can play a critical role in advancing PHC. New profiles such as the advanced practice nurses, as discussed in this document, can be fundamental in this effort, and in particular, in health promotion, disease prevention and care, especially in rural and underserved areas.

  • 05/16/2018 - Free Virtual Course (CVSP - OPS/OMS): Chikungunya Virtual Course

    This course is offered for professionals that are from the health area, in the distance learning modality, its main objective is to train the students for the professional health clinical management inserted in the welcome basic care for people affected by the chikungunya fever. Because it deals with a disease that was recently introduced in the country it is important to health providers to develop skills that can give the proper healthcare to the population.

  • 05/10/2018 - Celebration of the International Nurses Day (PAHO/WHO, 2018): Expanding the hole of nurses in Primary Health Care

    Participate in the celebration of the International Nursing Day 2018, whose theme is 'Extending the role of nurses in Primary Health Care'. The event, to be held on May 10 at 1:30 p.m. in Washington DC, will be broadcast live over the Internet (Webex link: https://goo.gl/a2pjpk). See full event agenda.

  • 05/09/2018 - Texto (Oxford Research Encyclopedia on Global Public Health ): Health Diplomacy in the Political Process of Integration in Latin America and the Caribbean

    Autors: Paulo Buss and Sebastián Tobar

    Online Publication 

  • 05/07/2018 - Free and open online course: Integrated Planning for Climate Change and Biodiversity

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