Building alliances for improving newborn health in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Innovative Community - based Interventions to Improve Newborn Health in Latin America and the Caribbean

Science for health: notes on the organization of scientific activity for the development of health in Latin America and the Caribbean1

1 This article presents an English-language summary of: Pellegrini Filho A. Ciencia en pro de la salud: notas sobre la organización de la actividad científica para el desarrollo de la salud en América Latina y el Caribe. Washington, D.C.: Organización Panamericana de la Salud; 2000. (Publicación Científica y Técnica No. 578). 2 Pan American Health Organization, Washington, D.C., United States o...

Trends in Longevity in the Americas: Disparities in Life Expectancy in Women and Men, 1965-2010

OBJECTIVE We describe trends in life expectancy at birth (LE) and between-country LE disparities since 1965, in Latin America and the Caribbean. METHODS & FINDINGS LE trends since 1965 are described for three geographical sub-regions: the Caribbean, Central America, and South America. LE disparities are explored using a suite of absolute and relative disparity metrics, with measurement consen...

Postal dose audits for radiotherapy centers in Latin America and the Caribbean: trends in 1969-2003.

Since 1969 the International Atomic Energy Agency and the World Health Organization (along with the Pan American Health Organization, working with countries in Latin America and the Caribbean) have operated postal dosimetry audits based on thermoluminescent dosimetry (TLD) for radiotherapy centers. The purpose of these audits is to provide an independent dosimetry check of radiation beams used ...

Regional integration and south-south cooperation in health in Latin America and the Caribbean.

This paper analyzes whether south-south cooperation is legitimately a recent practice or merely an improved version of previous regional integration processes in Latin America and the Caribbean. The authors reviewed and systematized the historic development of subregional integration processes in Latin America and the Caribbean and focused on health cooperation in the following contexts: the Ce...