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Assessment of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders

Pan American Health Organization; Family, Health Promotion and Life Course (FPL); Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health (NMH); Women, Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Health Center (CLAP) (Washington, D.C., PAHO, 2020-05-29)

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) represent a range of physical, mental, and behavioral disabilities caused by alcohol use during pregnancy, or prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE). FASDs are considered to be one of the ...

COVID-19: Prevention Measures at Construction Sites. Prevention Measures for Managing COVID-19 Risks on Construction Sites to Prevent the Spread of Coronavirus, Version 1.0 (April 2020)

United Nations Office for Project Services; Pan American Health Organization; Family, Health Promotion and Life Course (FPL) (Washington, D.C., PAHO, 2020-05-27)

The document provides recommendations to limit risk and prevent the spread of COVID-19 at construction sites.

El trabajo no remunerado del cuidado de la salud: una mirada desde la igualdad de género

Organización Panamericana de la Salud; Equity, Gender, and Cultural Diversity (EGC) (Washington, D.C., OPS, 2020-05-26)

[Introducción]. El cuidado es un término polisémico que engloba un conjunto de actividades, bienes y relaciones destinados a proveer “bienestar” a cada persona en su vida cotidiana a lo largo del curso de vida. El cuidado ...

Ongoing Living Update of Potential COVID-19 Therapeutics: summary of rapid systematic reviews. Rapid Review, 23 May 2020

Pan American Health Organization; Health Emergencies (PHE) (Washington, D.C., PAHO, 2020-05-23)

This document includes the results of a rapid systematic review of currently available literature. The information included in this review reflects the evidence as of the date posted in the document. Yet, recognizing that ...

COVID-19 Factsheets: The role of information systems and technologies at the first level of care

Pan American Health Organization; Evidence and Intelligence for Action in Health (EIH) (Washington, D.C., PAHO, 2020-05-23)

Care centered on the response to COVID-19: Identify, report, contain, manage, and refer. Information systems for health—through timely access to correctly disaggregated data, proper integration of national and local systems, ...

Hoja Informativa COVID-19: El rol de los sistemas de información y las tecnologías en el primer nivel de atención

Organización Panamericana de la Salud; Evidence and Intelligence for Action in Health (EIH) (Washington, D.C., OPS, 2020-05-23)

Atención centrada en la respuesta a la COVID-19: identificar, reportar, contener, manejar y referir. Los sistemas de información para la salud –a través del acceso oportuno a datos correctamente desagregados, la correcta ...

Fichas Informativas COVID-19: O papel dos sistemas de informação e das tecnologias na atenção primária

Organização Pan-Americana da Saúde; Evidence and Intelligence for Action in Health (EIH) (Washington, D.C., OPAS, 2020-05-23)

Atenção centrada na resposta à COVID-19: identificar, informar, conter, manejar e encaminhar. Os sistemas de informação em saúde — por meio do acesso oportuno a dados devidamente desagregados, a correta integração dos ...

Hoja de ruta para poner fin a la tuberculosis en niños y adolescentes. Segunda edición

Organización Panamericana de la Salud; Communicable Diseases and Environmental Determinants of Health (CDE) (Washington, D.C., OPS, 2020-05-22)

La reunión de alto nivel de la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas sobre la tuberculosis del 2018 y la presente revisión de la hoja de ruta para abordar la tuberculosis (TB) infantil representan ambos momentos importantes ...

Si tengo una enfermerdad cardíaca, ¿qué debo saber acerca de la COVID-19?, 21 de mayo del 2020

Organización Panamericana de la Salud; Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health (NMH) (Washington, D.C., OPS, 2020-05-22)

En esta hoja descriptiva se abordan los riesgos que enfrentan las personas con cardiopatías en el contexto de la COVID-19 y las medidas que pueden adoptar para reducirlos. El documento forma parte de una serie de notas ...

Si tengo una enfermedad renal crónica, ¿qué debo saber acerca de la COVID-19?, 21 de mayo del 2020

Organización Panamericana de la Salud; Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health (NMH) (Washington, D.C., OPS, 2020-05-22)

En esta hoja descriptiva se abordan los riesgos que enfrentan las personas con enfermedades renales crónicas en el contexto de la COVID-19 y las medidas que pueden adoptar para reducirlos. El documento forma parte de una ...

Environmental Public Health Recommendations for Collective Residential Places: Nursing Homes, Orphanages, and Other Collective Residential Places

Pan American Health Organization; Communicable Diseases and Environmental Determinants of Health (CDE) (Washington, D.C., PAHO, 2020-05-21)

This technical note presents the main recommendations for collective residential places that provide services to groups of people in vulnerable conditions, such as nursing homes and orphanages, in the areas of drinking ...

Recommendations for the Cleaning and Disinfection of Sites Where People are Closely Confined and Deprived of Their Liberty: Penitentiaries, Prisons, and Migrant Detention Centers

Pan American Health Organization; Communicable Diseases and Environmental Determinants of Health (CDE) (Washington, D.C., PAHO, 2020-05-21)

This technical note presents main considerations and recommendations regarding individual hygiene, self-care, and hand washing, and suggestions for cleaning and disinfecting places where people are confined and deprived ...