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1007871
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b762241
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Pan American Health Organization.
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Health in the Americas : : Volume I and Volume 2.
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| Publication Statement
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Washington :: Pan American Health Organization,, 2002.
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1 online resource (1042 pages)
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| ISBN
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1281637904
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: 6611637907
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: 9275115877
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: 9275127174
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: 9781281637901
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: 9786611637903
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: 9789275115879
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: 9789275127179
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| Contents
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CONTENTS -- I. REGIONAL HEALTH ANALYSIS -- II. MACRODETERMINANTS OF HEALTH IN SUSTAINABLE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT -- III. HEALTH SYSTEM REFORMS -- IV. PROMOTING HEALTH IN THE AMERICAS -- V. THE ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH -- VI. DISEASE PREVENTION -- VII. HEALTH RESOURCES AND TECHNOLOGY -- VIII. CHARACTERISTICS AND TRENDS IN EXTERNAL COOPERATION -- List of Acronyms Used in This Publication -- Anguilla -- Antigua and Barbuda -- Argentina -- Aruba -- Bahamas -- Barbados -- Belize -- Bermuda -- Bolivia -- Brazil -- British Virgin Islands -- Canada -- Cayman Islands -- Chile -- Colombia -- Costa Rica.
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Cuba -- Dominica -- Dominican Republic -- Ecuador -- El Salvador -- French Guiana Guadeloupe and Martinique -- Grenada -- Guatemala -- Guyana -- Haiti -- Honduras -- Jamaica -- Mexico -- Montserrat -- Netherlands Antilles -- Nicaragua -- Panama -- Paraguay -- Peru -- Puerto Rico -- Saint Kitts and Nevis -- Saint Lucia -- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines -- Suriname -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Turks and Caicos Islands -- United States of America -- Uruguay -- Venezuela -- United States Mexico Border Area.
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| Abstract
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Volume I describes the health situation from a regional perspective and contains a series of chapters that identify and analyze the most important general, demographic, and mortality trends of the period; major determinants of health as seen from a variety of political, social, economic, and financial standpoints; principal trends and characteristics of the ongoing health sector reform movement; the role of individuals and communities in promoting health; the association between the physical environment and human living conditions; principal diseases and health problems; the extent of human an.
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Health status indicators.
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| Dewey Classification
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362.1
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RA407.5.L3 P18 2002eb
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