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Accreditation standards manual for health sector

The implementation of quality improvement systems is one of the most interesting and challenging developments in health care; in fact, it has emerged as a central focus for many health delivery systems internationally; Trinidad and Tobago being no exception. Quality systems in the context of health care ...

Charting a future for health in the Americas: quadrennial report of the Director

Charting a Future for Health in the Americas describes the work of the Pan American Health Organization in recent years. The report opens with a disquisition on the significance of its title-how PAHO has had, and will continue to need, to chart and steer a steady course, dealing with and even capitalizin...

Report on the conference on ageing: maturing at a healthy pace: appreciating the older years, March 31-April 1, 1999, Eric Williams' Medical Sciences Complex, Mt. Hope

The conference organizers, ... had the following as the main conference objectives: (i) the formulation of strategies which would positively influence the main factors impacting on the life of older persons (ii) the dissemination of information about positive ways in which the needs of the elderly are be...