Chronic Disease Prevention and Control in the Americas

Health Surveillance and Disease Prevention and Control / Chronic Diseases

Chronic Disease Prevention and Control in the Americas (Monthly Newsletter of the PAHO/WHO Chronic Disease Program)
- Rules & Procedures - Archives  Current Issue: April 2009 (MS Word, 5 pp, 1.35 Mb; contents below) Spotlight: Cancer HPV Vaccine: Intervention in Adolescents IARC Study on HPV Testing in Low-Resource Settings WHO Position Paper on HPV Vaccines Just Released WHO/PAHO Cryotherapy Guidelines Call for Abstracts: International Cancer Control Congress News Roundup Subscribe		Purpose of the Newsletter: To share information between countries, within PAHO and with key partners and promote the Regional Strategy on an Integrated Approach to the Prevention and Control of Chronic Diseases Including Diet, Physical Activity, and Health; to share developments on all aspects of the Strategy and its four lines of action (surveillance & response, advocacy & policy, health promotion & disease prevention, and integrated management of chronic diseases & risk factors) as well as news on program implementation. Scope of the Newsletter: The newsletter can include items of interest in the following areas related to chronic disease surveillance, prevention, and management, including their risk factors: National, subregional or regional events or developments in chronic disease and risk-factor prevention and control. Country activities (please cite source and/or links if it is from a national agency; also, country news must be authorized by the corresponding Ministry or NGO): New surveillance findings, analyses, studies, trends. Prevention initiatives and campaigns. Policy developments in health or broader healthy public policies of relevance. Launch of strategies or plans. New Partnerships or grants. Major workshops or training events. New information resources or links. The newsletter began in January 2007. Typical contents revolve around regional developments, progress in the countries, upcoming events, announcements, and/or information resources. The current issue (and the occasional special issue) can be found above in the left-hand column, in MS Word as of March 2009; archives are listed below (primarily in PDF prior to March 2009). CNCD News from PAHO-Brazil   (in Portuguese)