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MMS Américas: a regional network for malaria molecular surveillance [PDF]

open access: yesMalaria Journal
International researchers and public health professionals convened in Panama in August 2025 to discuss current and future malaria molecular surveillance strategies to accelerate elimination in the Americas.
The MMS Américas Network
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Interview with Milla Cozart Riggio, Angela Marino, and Paolo Vignolo

open access: yesJournal of Festive Studies, 2021
Emily Ruth Allen interviews Milla Cozart Riggio, Angela Marino, and Paolo Vignolo on Festive Devils of the Americas (2015). Interview date: Feb 4, 2021 Milla Cozart Riggio is James J. Goodwin Professor of English Emerita at Trinity College.
Emily Ruth Allen
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Life expectancy, healthy life expectancy, and burden of disease in older people in the Americas, 1990–2019: a population-based study

open access: yesRevista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2021
Objective. To describe the life expectancy, healthy life expectancy, disease burden, and leading causes of mortality and disability in adults aged 65 years and older in the Region of the Americas from 1990 to 2019. Methods.
Ramon Martinez   +5 more
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Implementing long-term care systems in the Americas: a regional strategy

open access: yesRevista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2021
The Region of the Americas is facing accelerated demographic and epidemiological changes. As these trends will continue in future years, long-term care needs are expected to rise. How can countries respond to these challenges?
Pablo Villalobos Dintrans   +5 more
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Prioritizing noncommunicable diseases in the Americas region in the era of COVID-19

open access: yesRevista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2022
This article describes the situation of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in the Americas, implementation of NCD interventions according to key progress indicators, the impact of COVID-19 on NCD services, and ways to reprioritize NCDs following COVID-19 ...
Silvana Luciani   +3 more
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Planning for health equity in the Americas: an analysis of national health plans

open access: yesRevista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2021
There is growing recognition that health and well-being improvements have not been shared across populations in the Americas. This article analyzes 32 national health sector policies, strategies, and plans across 10 different areas of health equity to ...
Matthew M. Kavanagh   +3 more
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Building capacity in reducing population dietary sodium intake in the Americas

open access: yesRevista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2022
Objective. To present some resources developed as part of the technical support of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) to Member States to reduce population dietary sodium intake, and to discuss the main challenges and opportunities to accelerate
Lorena Andrea Allemandi   +3 more
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An anti-infodemic virtual center for the Americas

open access: yesRevista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2023
The Pan American Health Organization/ World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) Anti-Infodemic Virtual Center for the Americas (AIVCA) is a project led by the Department of Evidence and Intelligence for Action in Health, PAHO and the Center for Health ...
Ian Brooks   +13 more
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Monitoring and evaluation platform for HEARTS in the Americas: improving population-based hypertension control programs in primary health care

open access: yesRevista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2022
HEARTS in the Americas is the Pan American Health Organization flagship program to accelerate the reduction of the cardiovascular disease (CVD) burden by improving hypertension control and CVD secondary prevention in primary health care. A monitoring and
Patric Prado   +14 more
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Overcoming tobacco industry opposition to standardized packaging in the Americas

open access: yesRevista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2022
Countries in the Region of the Americas have been slow to adopt standardized packaging of tobacco products. The objectives of this analysis are to report on the progress made in adopting such packaging in countries in the Region, review known tobacco ...
Eric Crosbie   +5 more
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