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Moving in the right direction: tobacco packaging and labeling in the Americas
Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2022 Objective. To assess the adoption of tobacco packaging and labeling policies based on the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC)’s Article 11 guidelines, in the WHO Region of the Americas (AMRO). Methods.
Eric Crosbie +3 more
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Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2023 Objective. Systematize the experience and identify challenges and lessons learned in the implementation of an initiative for integrated serosurveillance of communicable diseases using a multiplex bead assay in countries of the Americas.
Martha-Idalí Saboyá-Díaz +9 more
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Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2023 This article describes progress in tackling noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in the Americas since the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) started its NCD program 25 years ago. Changes in the epidemiology of NCDs, NCD policies, health service capacity,
Silvana Luciani +14 more
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Using mixed methods to understand and tackle barriers to accessing health services
Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2023 This report describes the experience and lessons learnt from designing and implementing a combined quantitative and qualitative method to assess barriers to accessing health services.
Natalia Houghton +4 more
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Prevalence of human leptospirosis in the Americas: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2023 Objective. To describe the prevalence of leptospirosis in the Americas. Methods. A systematic review and meta-analysis, in the period 1930 to 2017, performed on a search of six platforms: PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, Lilacs, Embase, and Cochrane ...
Ericka Souza Browne +5 more
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Shorelines: In Memory of Édouard Glissant
Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 2011 Édouard Glissant passed away on 4 February 2011 at the age of 82. A few words of memory. As a person and thinker, Glissant lived through, then reflected with meditative patience and profundity upon some of the most critical years in the black Atlantic:
John E. Drabinski
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Alcohol use during the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean
Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2021 Objective. To assess the association between drinking behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine, anxiety symptoms, and sociodemographic characteristics in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Method.
Rodrigo Garcia-Cerde +5 more
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Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2020 The Republic of Panama has the second most unequally distributed wealth in Central America, has recently entered the list of countries affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and has one of the largest testing rate per inhabitant in the region and ...
Jose R. Loaiza +5 more
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Planning for health equity in the Americas: an analysis of national health plans
Revista 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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A Free Trade Area of the Americas: Status of Negotiations and Major Policy Issues [PDF]
, 2002 At the second Summit of the Americas in Santiago, Chile (April 1998), 34 Western Hemisphere nations agreed to initiate formal negotiations to create a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) by 2005.
Hornbeck, J. F.
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