[Preface]. The 1994 edition of Health Conditions in the Americas is the eleventh in a series of quadrennial reports published since 1954 to document the changes and advances in health achieved by the Member and Participating ...

[Preface]. For planning of health programs in the Americas, measurement of the problems is essential. Progress in health work requires basic information regarding the population being served, the health conditions in the ...

[Preface]. H e a lth C o n d itio n s in th e A m erica s, 1990 edition, is the tenth publication in a series o f quadrennial reports issued since 1954 as a way to document the health progress attained by the Member Governments ...

[Preface]. The theme of this publication, the sixth in a series started in 1954, is Health Conditions in the Americas, 1969-1972. The series began as a mere compilation of data, b u t it is gradually taking on the character ...

[Preface]. In the Americas the doctrine has become established to consider health a social service, a component of general development and progress. The Governments of the Americas have agreed to fulfill within the decade ...

[Foreword]. On approving the Strategic Plan 2003-2007, for the first time in PAHO, the Member States identified priority thematic areas, countries, and population groups and asked me to take the necessary steps for ...

[Foreword]. This report on Health Conditions in the Americas, 1977-1980 covers the period of transition be tween the end o f the program set forth in the Ten-Year Health Plan for the Americas1 (1 9 7 0 -1 9 8 0 ) and the ...

[Foreword]. Twenty years have elapsed since the Pan American Sanitary Bureau initiated, at the mandate of the Governing Bodies, the collection and analysis of data from the Governments which have permitted the publication ...

[Prologue]. A synthesis o f health conditions in the Americas for the period 1957-1960 has been prepared from data provided by the Governments. This presentation includes vital and health statistics , trends of prevailing ...

[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, ...