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Influence of PAHO publications on scientific production in the health field in Latin America and the Caribbean
(1996)The influence and impact of PAHO publications on scientific production in the field of health in Latin America and the Caribbean was the subject of a study based on a sample of 45 biomedical journals published between 1985 ... -
World Health Day 1996: Healthy Communities
(1996)World Health Day is observed annually on 7 April, the date the constitution of the World Health Organization was formally adopted in 1948 -
Reducing patient waiting times through quality assurance methods in La Troncal, Ecuador
(1996)Long patient waiting time is a common problem in hospitals and urban health centers in Ecuador and elsewhere. Besides being a leading cause of patient dissatisfaction with health service quality, it is often related to ... -
Breast-feeding and the nutritional status of nursing children in Chile
(1996)The work reported here sought to describe the feeding patterns of Chilean children up to 18 month old and their relation to nutritional status. To this end, a survey was conducted in 1993 of 9 330 Chilean children under ... -
Reflections on hospital quality assurance programs
(1996)This paper reviews the concept of quality assurance (QA) as it applies to hospital programs. It does not pretend to be a thorough or scientific bibliographic review of the subject. Rather, the practical observations and ... -
Health and national security
(1996)Based on an address delivered by the Director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau at the University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica, on 27 March 1995 -
An overview of health-related industrial biotechnology in Latin America and the Caribbean
(1996)There is some uncertainty about the extent to which Latin America and the Caribbean have participated in the advances of health-related industry biotechnology. This articule reviews tha available literature and seeks to ... -
Vaccine self-sufficiency in developing countries
(1996)During 1996 PAHO's Special Program for Vaccines and Immunization (SVI) will continue to conduct GMP workshops in the Region. An additional activity, which has been targered as very important, in the development of specific ... -
New, emerging, and re-emerging infectious diseases
(1996)Emerging diseases are defined as those whose incidence in humans has increased in the past two decades, and re-emergence is the reappearance of a known disease after a significant decline in incidence (Document CD38/17) ... -
Epidemic cholera in Latin America, 1991-1993: implications of case definitions used for public health surveillance
(1996)This report presents the various cholera case definitions used by the affected countries of Latin America, shows the numbers of cholera cases and deaths attributable to cholera (as reported by Latin American countries to ... -
Prescription of antibiotics for mild acute respiratory infections in children
(1996)Acute respiratory infections (ARI), the leading class of ailments causing people to seek health care, rarely require antibiotics. Nevertheless, many phisycians prescribe them needlessly. Hence, reducing the unnecessary use ...
