Health Conditions in the Americas, 1981-1984. v.2
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[Preface]. This second volume of H e a lth C o n d i t io n s in t h e A m e r ic a s , 1981-1984 presents
individual country evaluations of the general context of health—social, political, and
economic factors, demography, and mortality—the health situation, and national
resources available for preventive and curative health care. As such, it serves to
complement the regional analysis provided in Volume I of this publication.
Each PAHO country office in the Region was requested to prepare, for inclusion in
this report, an evaluation of the health conditions in the respective country, using the
best available information. As it turned out, that information proved to be so rich that
not all of it could be accommodated here, and considerable editing was necessary in
order to present the major aspects of the countries' health situations in a volume of
reasonable size.
Because many sources of information were used in preparing the country reports,
the reader may encounter unresolved discrepancies between data reported in the
regional analysis and the annex tables (Volume I) and those reported in these
individual country narratives. While minor discrepancies are to be expected when
dealing with multiple data sources, some major inconsistencies are causes for
concern; however, it is hoped that they may prompt opportunities for reassessing and
consolidating national data on health and the process for their production.
In their entirety, these country reports present the complex epidemiological mosaic
that is the health status of the peoples of the Americas. No longer are the developing
countries' health profiles so completely dominated by infectious diseases. As
populations grow older and massive urbanization takes place, new public health
problems emerge, including chronic debilitating diseases and environmental threats to
health. At the same time, some major infectious disease problems such as malaria,
gastrointestinal illness, and acute respiratory infections persist. The analyses in the
country reports document these changes and the progress achieved so far in the
individual and collective health profile of this Region; moreover, they present clearly
some of the major challenges for public health still facing the countries of the
Americas. Published also In Spanish (1986) with the title: Las condiciones de salud en las Américas, 1981-1984. v.2 Publicación Científica de la OPS No. 500
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