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Loading ...World Breastfeeding Week in the Americas / Semana Mundial de la Lactancia en las Américas
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007For general information on World Breastfeeding Week activities, check the website www.worldbreastfeedingweek.org For more specific information on activities in your country, contact either your Health Ministry or the local UNICEF office. From the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO): World Breastfeeding Week Starts Aug. 1 in the Americas Countries throughout the Americas are joining together to […]
Helping Poor Countries Deal with Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases
Thursday, July 26th, 2007Last month the World Bank issued an interesting report on chronic non-communicable chronic diseases (NCDs) such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, and chronic lung or kidney disease, which I am adding to the Temas Recommended Reading List section on health. Perhaps by now you’re thinking that I have some sort of obsession about NCDs, since […]
Assessment of Non-communicable Chronic Disease in Uruguay / Diagnóstico de las enfermedades crónicas no transmisibles en Uruguay
Sunday, July 22nd, 2007Recently Uruguay’s Ministry of Public Health (MSP) released the results of its survey into its population’s chief risk factors for non-communicable chronic disease (NCD). The major NCD categories are cardiovascular disease (CVD), cancers (“malignant neoplasms”), chronic respiratory disease, diabetes and chronic kidney disease. NCDs constitute 70% of deaths in Uruguay (33.8% CVD, 22.6% malignant neoplasms). […]
Cardiovascular Disease in LAC Revisited
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007Fellow bloggers, has this ever happened to you? You run across an important piece of news — a breakthrough study just released, for example — and are tempted to simply cut-and-paste into your blog the Reuters or other news blurb, or a related press release, or you’re tempted to make a “quick-and-dirty” post making (perhaps […]
A Health Agenda for the Americas
Saturday, June 9th, 2007The annual General Assembly (GA) of the Organization of American States (OAS), held this year in Panama just last week, was used as the venue for formally rolling out the “Health Agenda for the Americas” developed over the last two years by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the World Health Organization (WHO). The […]
Hearts and Minds in LAC II: What LAC Thinks About CVD
Friday, November 3rd, 2006Trying to Find the Story Behind the Story Behind LAC’s CVD In Part I of “Hearts and Minds in LAC,” I expressed surprise that World Heart Day did not receive greater attention in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) nations, given the region’s problem with cardiovascular disease (CVD). I also admitted that I myself had not […]