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Diez hechos que el personal de salud debe conocer sobre las vacunas contra la COVID-19

Organización Panamericana de la Salud; Family, Health Promotion and Life Course (FPL) (Washington, D.C., OPS, 2021-01-21)

Como trabajador de salud, ¿cuál es mi función en la introducción de las vacunas contra la COVID-19? ¿Cómo debo responder si los pacientes me hacen preguntas sobre las vacunas contra la COVID‑19? Este documento está dirigido ...

Deinstitutionalization of Psychiatric Care in Latin America and the Caribbean

Pan American Health Organization; Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health (NMH) (Washington, D.C., PAHO, 2021-01-20)

This technical document is a framework for action. Its objective is to guide the psychiatric care deinstitutionalization process in the context of Latin America and the Caribbean. The essential purpose of deinstitutionalization ...

COVID-19: Digital health facilitating telerehabilitation

Pan American Health Organization; Evidence and Intelligence for Action in Health (EIH) (Washington, D.C., PAHO, 2021-01-19)

As part of the measures implemented as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, telerehabilitation is a process that allows continuity of care for patients who can benefit from remote consultations, while ensuring greater ...

Ten Things Healthcare Workers Need to Know about COVID-19 Vaccines, 15 January 2021

Pan American Health Organization; Family, Health Promotion and Life Course (FPL) (Washington, D.C., PAHO, 2021-01-19)

As a healthcare worker, what is my role in COVID-19 vaccine introduction? How should I respond if people ask me questions about COVID-19 vaccines? This document is addressed to healthcare workers involved in the COVID-19 ...

Vaccination Week in the Americas 2020: Final Report

Pan American Health Organization; Family, Health Promotion and Life Course (FPL) (Washington, D.C., PAHO, 2021-01-15)

Vaccination Week in the Americas (VWA) is a regional initiative that aims to promote equity and access to vaccination in all countries in the Region of the Americas. The participation of the countries of the Americas in ...

Ongoing Living Update of Potential COVID-19 Therapeutics: Summary of Rapid Systematic Reviews. Rapid Review

Pan American Health Organization; Evidence and Intelligence for Action in Health (EIH) (Washington, D.C., PAHO, 2021-01-14)

This is the fourteenth edition of this database of evidence on potential therapeutic options for COVID-19, in which 68 therapeutic options are examined. This information will help investigators, policy makers, and prescribers ...

Orientações para a aplicação de medidas de saúde pública não farmacológicas a grupos populacionais em situação de vulnerabilidade no contexto da COVID-19

Organização Pan-Americana da Saúde; Family, Health Promotion and Life Course (FPL) (Washington, D.C., OPAS, 2021-01-14)

A finalidade deste guia é apresentar orientações para melhorar a aplicação de medidas de saúde pública não farmacológicas durante a resposta à COVID-19, bem como a adesão a essas medidas por parte dos grupos populacionais ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about COVID-19 Candidate Vaccines and Access Mechanisms. Version 3, 6 January 2021

Pan American Health Organization; Family, Health Promotion and Life Course (FPL) (Washington, D.C., PAHO, 2021-01-14)

Will COVID-19 vaccines be safe? Will all the COVID-19 candidate vaccines be successful? What are the different phases a vaccine must go through to be approved? This document provides responses to the most frequently asked ...

Informe final de la Semana de Vacunación en las Américas 2020

Organización Panamericana de la Salud; Family, Health Promotion and Life Course (FPL) (Washington, D.C., OPS, 2021-01-13)

La 18.ª Semana de Vacunación en las Américas se celebró entre el 25 de abril y el 2 de mayo del 2020 bajo el lema "Ama. Confía. Protege. #Vacúnate". Esta iniciativa tiene por objetivo impulsar la equidad y el acceso a la ...

Considerations for Strengthening the First Level of Care in the Management of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Pan American Health Organization; Health Systems and Services (HSS) (Washington, D.C., PAHO, 2021-01-12)

During the COVID-19 pandemic, health systems have been facing the difficulty of providing timely access and coverage and meeting the needs of the population at the first level of care (FLC), particularly in rural, remote, ...

Recommendations to Adapt and Strengthen Response Capacity at the First Level of Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic, September 2020

Pan American Health Organization; Health Systems and Services (HSS) (Washington, D.C., PAHO, 2021-01-11)

This document presents considerations to support decision-making and actions to help strengthen response capacity at the first level of care (FLC) based on the values laid out in the Strategy for Universal Access to Health ...

Communicating about Vaccine Safety: Guidelines to help health workers communicate with parents, caregivers, and patients

Pan American Health Organization; Family, Health Promotion and Life Course (FPL) (Washington, D.C., PAHO, 2020-12-28)

Vaccines save between 2 million and 3 million lives each year and protect the entire population from more than a dozen life-threatening diseases. Thanks to vaccination, smallpox was eradicated in 1980, and we are on track ...

Interactive Atlas of Leishmaniasis in the Americas: Clinical Aspects and Differential Diagnosis

Pan American Health Organization; Communicable Diseases and Environmental Determinants of Health (CDE) (Washington, D.C., PAHO, 2020-12-23)

In the Region of the Americas, the leishmaniases are a group of diseases caused by various species of Leishmania, which cause a set of clinical syndromes in infected humans that can involve the skin, mucosa, and visceral ...

HEARTS: Mejorar el control de la hipertensión en 3 millones de personas. Experiencias de los países sobre la elaboración e implementación de programas

Organización Panamericana de la Salud; Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health (NMH) (Washington, D.C., OPS, 2020-12-17)

La hipertensión arterial, es decir, la presión arterial elevada, es un trastorno grave que aumenta significativamente el riesgo de infarto de miocardio, accidente cerebrovascular, insuficiencia renal y ceguera. Es la ...

Especificaciones técnicas de la OMS para dispositivos automáticos de medición de la presión arterial no invasivos y con brazalete

Pan American Health Organization (Washington, D.C., PAHO, 2020-12-15)

La hipertension es el principal factor de riesgo modificable de algunas enfermedades graves como las enfermedades cardiovasculares (accidentes cerebrovasculares y cardiopatías isquémicas), la preeclampsia y la eclampsia ...

Panorama de la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional en América Latina y el Caribe 2020. Seguridad alimentaria y nutricional para los más rezagados

Organización Panamericana de la Salud; Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health (NMH) (Santiago de Chile, OPS, 2020-12-15)

Cinco organismos del sistema de las Naciones Unidas se unen para publicar este informe: la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), el Fondo Internacional para el Desarrollo Agrícola ...

The Essential Public Health Functions in the Americas: A Renewal for the 21st Century. Conceptual Framework and Description

Pan American Health Organization; Health Systems and Services (HSS) (Washington, D.C., PAHO, 2020-12-11)

The essential public health functions (EPHFs) have constituted the core of the agenda for strengthening the health sector in the Region of the Americas since the 1980s. Their conceptual development and measurement in the ...