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Integrated Management Strategy for Dengue Prevention and Control on Aruba. IMS-Dengue Aruba

Aruba. Ministry of Health of Aruba; Pan American Health Organization (Willemstad, Curaçao, PAHO, 2012)

[Introduction]. Dengue is the most important mosquito-borne viral disease in the world. Repeated epidemics of dengue and severe dengue affect millions of individuals each year in tropical and subtropical areas of the world, ...

Admission of Aruba, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten as Associate Members of the Pan American Health Organization.

Pan American Health Organization (Washington, D.C, PAHO, 2012-09)

Health systems strengthening for noncommunicable disease control and healthy aging: integrated actions in Aruba and Curaçao

Cho, Malhi; Marchand, Melissa; Vega, Enrique; Holder, Reynaldo; Luciani, Silvana; Constansia-Kook, Jeanine; Moya, José (2019-06)

[ABSTRACT]. Caribbean countries are experiencing social, epidemiological, and demographic transitions shaped by the growing elderly population and the rise of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs)—now responsible for 78% of ...

Contribution of amenable mortality to life expectancy differences between the Dutch Caribbean islands of Aruba and Curaçao and the Netherlands

Verstraeten, Soraya P. A.; van Oers, Hans A. M.; Mackenbach, Johan P. (2020-05)

[ABSTRACT]. Objective. To identify specific health care areas whose optimization could improve population health in the Dutch Caribbean islands of Aruba and Curaçao. Methods. Comparative observational study using mortality ...