Sustainable Development and
Environmental Health
Evaluation and Risk
Management
Healthy Environment |
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The objectives are:
Strengthen National Institutional
Capacities to estimate the likelihood of adverse
effects which may result from exposure to specific
health hazards or from the absence of favorable
influences, through hazard identification, risk
characterization, exposure assessment and risk
estimation.
Provide technical support in risk
management to reduce the risk levels to which a
population is subject. The process includes exposure
control and risk monitoring.
Risk support - benefit analysis of
the expected positive and negative results of the
interventions.
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Workers' Health |
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The Workers' Health Program at PAHO
invites all parties to participate in a dynamic,
creative and inter-sectoral initiative to promote
human sustainable development from the Canadian Arctic
to Argentine's Tierra del Fuego through the initiative
of their Regional Plan. The Regional Plan is committed
to promoting equitable occupational health for the
Region of the Americas through a preventative approach
to health care. The desirability of a healthy
continental community necessitates that workplaces be
safe environments for workers', and that human capital
be optimized. The benefits of a healthy workforce
include higher productivity and fewer social costs, as
well as increased well being for all members of
society. Indeed, good health is an essential part of
progress.
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Violence Prevention and Road Safety |
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The high burden
and impact of violence on the society at large and the public health sector in
particular, led to the need to break paradigms and find out new ways to face
this problem. The public health approach has been adopted and applied by PAHO at
country level. Emphasis on prevention strategies rather than merely on
repression, is the main message that PAHO has highlighted since 1994 and
recently reinforced on the launchings of the WHO's World Report on Violence and
Health (WHO, 2002), in countries of the Americas.
Road Safety
Almost 130,000 people die, 1,200,000 had injuries and thousands of them have
permanent disabilities caused in traffic crashes, in our Region. This means that
this is an important public health problem. Nonetheless, fortunately there are
very well known interventions and policies that may help alleviate this
situation. The World Report on Road Traffic Injuries Prevention (WHO and WB,
2004), contain recommendations and guidance for decision makers. PAHO is fully
committed for Safer Roads in the Americas.
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Tobacco and Consumers' Health |
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Globalization has favored the health of the
nations in some aspects, but has also created new challenges
for public health. An important group of public health problems
that have worsened due to globalization of trade and markets
are emerging as relatively new and significant threats to
sustainable development. These are health problems essentially
related to consumption of unhealthy but legal products that
have appeared in the market massively due to its aggressive
marketing, its great availability, and affordability. Among
these consumer products are some foods of little nutritional
value, high in calories, fats, or sugars, alcoholic beverages
and tobacco products. Tobacco use and exposure to second hand
smoke is one of the main preventable health problems of
avoidable in the Americas, where it kills 1.1 million people
per year. The proportion of young people who regularly smokes
as early as 13 to 15 years of age ranges between 30 and 40% in
many countries of the region. This prevalence is growing
especially among women. In the majority of the countries there
are more smokers among the poor that among the rich.
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Tobacco
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Modem
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DSL
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Chronic Disease Prevention & Control in the Americas, Vol. 1, No. 11, November 2007 [MSWord]
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Chronic Disease Prevention & Control in the Americas, Vol. 1, No. 12, December 2007 [PDF]
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Chronic Disease Prevention & Control in the Americas, Vol. 1, No. 8, August 2007 [MSWord]
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Chronic Disease Prevention & Control in the Americas, Vol. 2, No. 6, June 2008 [PDF]
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Chronic Disease Prevention & Control in the Americas, Vol. 3, No. 5, May 2009 [MSWord]
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Bloomberg Global Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use
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Building Public Awareness About Passive Smoking Hazards [PDF]
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Building Support for 100% Smoke-Free Environments in the Americas [PDF]
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