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Emergency Operations Center - PAHO
The Pan American Health Organization's Emergency Operations Center (EOC) is a permanent structure that functions as a centralized location for coordination, support and control of health-related emergency response activities regardless of the location or the nature of the health emergency. The EOC houses the emergency operations team, as well ...
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Health System Impacts
Selected Activities and Results: Health System Impacts Strengthening Health Systems. During 2022, PAHO placed renewed emphasis on the EPHF, which refer to the capacity of public health authorities to strengthen health systems and guarantee the right to health for everyone. We continued our implementation of the EPHF evaluation and strengthening ...
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Combination HIV Prevention - PAHO
UNAIDS defines combination HIV prevention as rights-, evidence-, and community-based programs that promote a combination of biomedical, behavioral, and structural interventions designed to meet the HIV prevention needs of specific people and communities. Its goal is to reduce the number of new infections through activities with a greater ...
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Time to Act on Dementia - PAHO/WHO | Pan American Health Organization
What is dementia. Dementia is a term for several diseases that affect memory, thinking, and the ability to perform daily activities. It is caused by many different diseases or injuries that directly and indirectly damage the brain. Alzheimer´s disease is the most common form and may contribute to 60–70% of cases.
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Health Emergency and Disaster Preparedness - PAHO
The field of health emergency and disaster preparedness refers to the knowledge and capacities to effectively anticipate, respond and recover from the impacts of likely, imminent or current hazardous events or conditions.Governments, response and recovery organizations, communities and individuals can carry out preparedness action in order to build the capacities needed to manage all types of ...
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Let's Be Active - PAHO/WHO | Pan American Health Organization
Let's cycle. Be active One in four adults (1.4 billion people worldwide) do not meet the World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations of 150 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity per week to benefit from the reduced risk of noncommunicable diseases and to improve their health and well-being. Globally, women are less active (32% ...
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Pharmacovigilance - PAHO/WHO | Pan American Health Organization
Pharmacovigilance is the science and the activities related to the detection, assessment, understanding, and prevention of adverse effects or any other medicine or vaccine related problem. The pharmacovigilance seeks to ensure that the benefit-risk ratio remains favorable throughout the life cycle of amedicine , i.e., from the time it is ...
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Vaccination Week in the Americas activities in full swing in Grenada - PAHO
Grenada, May 2, 2023 (PAHO) - Vaccination Week in the Americas activities were hosted across Grenada when the country celebrated the annual week of activities from April 24 to 30, 2023. The yearly celebration of Vaccination Week in the Americas began in 2002 thanks to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). Observation of VWA commenced in ...
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Immunization Toolkit - PAHO/WHO | Pan American Health Organization
This toolkit has been created and it is updated as a resource to support managers of the Expanded Programs on Immunization (EPI) in the Region, as well as their teams, in all aspects of the planning, monitoring, reporting and evaluation of immunization programs. This toolkit also serves as a reference library for Technical Advisory Group (TAG ...
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Key Poliovirus Containment Activities - Resolution WHA 71.16
Key Poliovirus Containment Activities - Resolution WHA 71.16. Download (158.07 KB) 25 Feb 2019. Laboratories. Immunization . Poliomyelitis. Technical and scientific ...
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