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10/07/2015 - Two United Nations agencies – the UN World Health Organization (WHO) and the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) – announced they have developed new standards for quality health-care services for adolescents, which aim to help countries improve services for people between the ages of 10 and 19. “These standards provide simple yet powerful steps that countries – both rich and poor – can immediately take to improve the health and wellbeing of their adolescents,” said Dr. Anthony Costello, Director of Maternal, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health at WHO, in apress release. -
10/02/2015 - At the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit on 25 September 2015, world leaders adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which includes a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, fight inequality and injustice, and tackle climate change by 2030. -
10/01/2015 - The RETS Magazine reaffirms its desire to disseminate experience reports. Therefore, we are accepting articles in the area of technical workers´ education, to be published this year. The idea is to promote the greatest possible number of experience reports, in all areas and levels of education, from those targeting auxiliary workers and health care agents to those related to mid-level technicians and/or higher level technologists. -
07/09/2015 - In May 2014, the 67th World Health Assembly asked the Director-General to develop and submit a new global strategy on human resources for health to be considered by the 69th World Health Assembly in May 2016. This strategy represents a critical component of the WHO strategic vision towards universal health coverage (UHC) in the framework of the post 2015 health development agenda. The Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health: Workforce 2030 is now open for public consultation until 31 August 2015. The draft will also be discussed at various global health events as well as a number of WHO regional technical consultations. This global dialogue will inform the continuing improvement of the draft and a final version to be submitted to the WHO Executive Board in January 2016. -
06/15/2015 - The May issue of the ISAGS report is a special on the participation of UNASUR in the 68th World Health Assembly (WHA). The newspaper brings a summary of comments of the People's Health Movement (PHM) about the proposals of WHO, that are of interest the block. The publication also treats the positioning of General Secretary of UNASUR, Ernesto Samper, respect to the intervention of UNASUR in the WHA and an interview with Fernando Rosales, representative of the Permanent Mission of Bolivia in Geneva, about the importance of the presence of the block in international forums of Global Health. -
05/27/2015 - ISAGS’ technical advisor on social determinants of health and regulation, Alessandra Bortoni Ninis, participated in the Latin American and Caribbean Forum on Territorial Economic Development, which took place in Quito, Ecuador, on May 18 and 19. The event is a stage in preparation to the 3rd World Forum on Local Economic Development that will be held in Turin, Italy, in October 2015. -
05/26/2015 - The World Health Assembly closed today (26/05/2015), with Director-General Dr Margaret Chan noting that it had passed several “landmark resolutions and decisions”. Three new resolutions were passed today: one on air pollution, one on epilepsy and one laying out the next steps in finalizing a framework of engagement with non-State actors. Delegates at the World Health Assembly adopted a resolution to address the health impacts of air pollution – the world’s largest single environmental health risk. Every year 4.3 million deaths occur from exposure to indoor air pollution and 3.7 million deaths are attributable to outdoor air pollution. This was the first time the Health Assembly had debated the topic. -
05/21/2015 - “The goal today is to strengthen the Structural Networks and thus the health systems of partner countries to reinforce the role of workers in the construction of universal systems geared for primary care. We also seek to bring some of the experience of the Brazilian government and this institution in education and management in health.” Those were the words of Joaquim Venâncio Health Polytechnic School (EPSJV/Fiocruz) Director Paulo César de Castro Ribeiro during the opening of the 1st Virtual Seminar of the RETS on the “Intercultural perspective in the Education of Health Technicians”, held on May 20 at the EPSJV, current Executive Secretariat of the Network. The Debate Forum of this Seminar is now open. -
05/19/2015 - On May 20, at 9:30 am (Eastern Time), The International Network of Health Technicians Education (RETS) is holding the 1st Network’s Webinar on “The intercultural perspective in Health Technical Training”. The event presented by teacher-researcher Ana Lucia Pontes* will take place in the Auditorium Joaquim Alberto Cardoso de Melo, the Joaquim Venâncio Health Polytechnic School (EPSJV/Fiocruz), and will be broadcasted online in Spanish and Portuguese. The targeted audience encompasses researchers, students and professionals in the field of health sciences. -
05/18/2015 - Since the Alma-Ata International Conference*, there have been discussions about the conception and implementation of Primary Health Care (PHC) systems in South America. The various models of comprehensive health care that have been adopted over the years in the continent are the highlight of the book Primary Health Care in South America, released by ISAGS/UNASUR last Sunday (17) during the meeting of the South American Health Council in preparation for the World Health Assembly (WHA), in Geneva. The publication is part of ISAGS’s Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and it resulted from an extensive work of mapping, articulation and consolidation of PHC experiences in the region. The study comprises technical aspects - such as management and health care methodology, workforce and financing -, as well as intercultural and intersectoral questions existing in the countries.