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Collaboration for success: the Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer in Latin America
2023-10-05
[ABSTRACT]. The Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer (GICC) aims to increase the cure rate for children with cancer globally by improving healthcare access and quality. The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital ...
A multimodal strategy to improve health care for pediatric patients with cancer and fever in Peru
2023-10-05
[ABSTRACT]. Objective. The DoTT (Decreasing Time to Therapy) project aimed to minimize the interval between fever onset and medical interventions for children with febrile neutropenia. The objective of this study was to determine the effect of implementing ...
La importancia del enfoque de género en la construcción de sistemas de salud resilientes, equitativos y universales
2023-09-27
[RESUMEN]. La pandemia de la enfermedad por el coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19, por su sigla en inglés) demostró la necesidad de reforzar el enfoque de género desde una perspectiva integradora y multisectorial para el abordaje de las problemáticas en salud. ...
Integrated control of neglected tropical diseases in Brazil: document review of a national campaign in light of WHO recommendations
2023-09-27
[ABSTRACT]. Objective. To describe the results of a national campaign aimed at the integrated control of neglected tropical diseases in Brazil in light of the World Health Organization (WHO) official documentation related to the integration of strategies ...
Evaluation of the Pan American Health Organization Technical Cooperation in Noncommunicable Disease Prevention and Control in the Americas. Volume II. Annexes
2023-09-26
This publication is the companion document to "Evaluation of the Pan American Health Organization Technical Cooperation for Noncommunicable Disease Prevention and Control in the Americas. Volume I. Final Report". The overall purpose of the evaluation ...
Manual on Oral Care for Pediatric Cancer Patients
2023-09-26
This manual has been prepared within the framework of the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer, CureAll Americas, with the purpose of improving the situation of children and adolescents with cancer around the world, ...
Demographic Outlook for Population Aging in the Region of the Americas
2023-09-25
With the object of summarizing the available knowledge about the health and well-being of older persons in the Region of the Americas at the start of the Decade on Healthy Aging 2021‑2030 and reporting on population aging, this publication provides ...
Regional collaboration for the development of national childhood cancer plans in Latin America and the Caribbean
2023-09-23
[ABSTRACT]. This article aims to describe the activities conducted by the National Childhood Cancer Plan Working Group to support the development of national childhood cancer plans in Latin America and the Caribbean in the period 2019–2022, and to ...
