Healthy Municipalities/Cities

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Announcements

World Fair on Municipalities and Health
Buenos Aires, Argentina. August 18-21, 2009.- Argentina hosted the first World Fair on Municipalities and Health: Rights, Citizenship, and Integrated Local Management for Development, one of the year’s most important international health events, with around 3,000 participants expected.
The first day of the Fair closed with a presentation by the Director of the Pan American Health Organization, Dr. Mirta Roses Periago, who talked about "Municipalities, Health and Integrated Management: An Opportunity to Support the Exercise of Civil Rights."
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Director's presentation » [only Spanish version]
With a declaration of commitment to work together for a most healthy world and with an appeal to promote the full development of its communities, the director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Mirta Roses, closed the World Fair on Municipalities and Health.
Closing »(21/Aug/2009)
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PRIMARY HEALTH CARE is the solution to key health problems facing our communities today
Asuncion, Paraguay. 12 February 2009.- PAHO's Director during an exchange that she held with representatives of different community organizations of the Central department in Paraguay that stated their experiences concerning the shares carried out to promote a healthier space; during the Subregional Managers' Meeting of the Andean area and Southern Cone of PAHO. [PDF Only in Spanish version] (12/Feb/2009)
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World No-Tobacco Day 2002 Awards: Call for nominations
“World No-Tobacco Day” 2002 (WNTD) will be held on May 31st. The theme this year is Tobacco Free Sports and the slogan is Play it Clean. The goal is to highlight the incongruity of tobacco’s association with sport as well as the need to eliminate the promotion of tobacco products through tobacco sponsorship of sports figures, events, and facilities.(8/Mar/2002)
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Books

Logros en Salud en Centroamérica: Cinco años después de Mitch
Cinco años después del huracán Mitch—uno de los desastres más devastadores en la historia de Centroamérica—los países más afectados han hecho avances muy importantes en la reducción de su vulnerabilidad a los desastres. Esta publicación se enfoca en muchos de estos logros: hospitales y sistemas de salud más seguros; comunidades mejor preparadas para enfrentarse a las consecuencias para la salud de los desastres; información al día y mucho más.(17/Feb/2004)
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Annual Report of the Director 1996: Healthy People, Healthy Spaces
Although there may well be modern versions of the concept of a good that might be at variance with Aristotle's, the view that health may be found among the goods to be created and nurtured by associations remains as one of our working hypotheses. Plus, health itself may lead to the formation of associations in particular spaces that, in turn, contribute to other equally desirable goods. (Official Document, © PAHO, 1996)(31/Dec/1996)
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Community Participation in Health and Development in the Americas
Analysis of case studies from Barbados, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Guyana, Jamaica, and Mexico that were conducted to determine why, when, and how community members voluntarily participate in promoting health and what sustains their participation. (Scientific Publication, © PAHO, 1984).(8/Jun/1984)
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Databases

Public Health Surveillance in the Americas: National Epidemiological Surveillance and Statistical Information Systems
A portal with links to National Epidemiological Survillance Information Systems and Statistical Information Systems in the Region of the Americas.(29/Jan/2003)
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Health Promoting Schools, Questionnaire for Networks
Questionnaire for Networks on Health Promoting Schools.(5/Feb/2002)
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Health Promoting Schools, Questionnaire for Schools
Questionnaire for Schools to Register National Health Promoting Schools Network.(5/Feb/2002)
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Other Resources

Sustainable Development and Environmental Health - Healthy Settings
Sustainable Development and Environmental Health (SDE) - Healthy Settings, Healthy Municipalities and Urban Health, Health-Promoting Schools, Local Development and Community Participation(12/Aug/2005)
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Declaration of Medellin-1999
The movement of Municipios and Healthy Communities in the Americas, committed with the principles of equity, solidarity, and living together, proposed in the Ottawa Charter (1986), reaffirmed in the Declaration of Bogotá (1992) and with the contributions of the Congresses of Brazil (1996) and Mexico (1997), has fulfilled a very important role in the search for // new ways of promoting the ambitious goal of health for all, sustainable human development, and the improvement of the quality of life of the inhabitants of this region of the world.(25/Jul/2001)
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Clearing the Air Contest
PAHO/WHO is inviting nominations from the Region of the Americas for the "Clearing the Air" competition in conjunction with World No Tobacco Day, May 31st, 2001. On May 31st PAHO/WHO will recognize governments, mayors, institutions and individuals who have made a significant contribution to "clearing the air" of tobacco smoke in their communities.(9/Mar/2001)
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Periodical Publications

Perspectives in Health - Volume 1, Number 1, 1996
Magazine published twice a year by the Pan American Health Organization. This edition features the following articles: The Camera Lens as Chronicler - Relearning Lessons of the Greeks - The Economics of the Heart - Designing With Disaster in Mind - Fred Cuny, Formulator of Fast-Track Relief(2/Apr/2000)
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Technical Documents

10^th International Course on Physical Activity and Public Health: Move for Health (2^nd Course of the CARMEN School in Guatemala, Antigua, 13-16 November 2007)
This course provided training for national and community public health professionals in Guatemala on the topic of physical activity and health.(16/Nov/2007)
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The Response of the Health Systems
This section of this chapter of the 1998 edition of the book “Health in the Americas”, reviews the importance of intersectorial response--collaborative effort. It highlights that to abolish or improve prevalent social, environmental, occupational, and behavioral risk factors is an essential function of health promotion. This chapter discusses healthy municipalities and health-promoting schools, The Healthy Municipalities Movement, The Health-Promoting Schools Initiative. Pages 210-215 (Health in the Americas, © PAHO, 1998)(7/Feb/1998)
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Componentes educativos de los programas para la promoción de la salud escolar
En todos los países de la Región de las Américas se llevan a cabo programas de salud escolar que proporcionan servicios para diagnosticar problemas auditivos, visuales, nutricionales y de la postura que pueden afectar al aprovechamiento de los escolares. En esos programas también se imparten conocimientos sobre higiene, alimentación, prevención de accidentes, saneamiento y otros temas. Sin embargo, la mayor parte de los programas tienen una estrategia de enseñanza tradicional que no logra transmitir exitosamente los conocimientos que lleven a desarrollar las habilidades necesarias para adoptar estilos de vida más saludables. (Rev Panam Salud Pública 1997, 2(3): 208-214)(1/Sep/1997)
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