This publication examines the relationship that exists between health and human development in Latin America and the Caribbean. The frame of reference for this analysis is provided by the proposal put forward by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) on social equity and chan...
A key function of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is to disseminate information on the health situation and trends in the region of the Americas. The organization has performed this function without interruption since 1956, the first year in which an assessment of the health status of the pop...
Health Statistics from the Americas, 1998 Edition, is the fourth in a series begun in 1991 to complement the quadrennial publication Health in the Americas. Initially conceived as a yearbook, this publication is now produced every two years. This edition is the first to include a section devoted to a spe...
Objective: To define and disseminate the optimal search strategy for clinical trials in the Latin American and Caribbean Health Science Literature (LILACS). This strategy was elaborated based on the optimal search strategy for MEDLINE recommended by Cochrane Collaboration for the identification of clinic...
The aims of the study reported on in this paper were to determine the health status of a group of Trinidadian women age 40-64 years; to ascertain how informed they were about the "change of life", and determine the sources from which they had received their information. The study also sought to discover ...
A comparison of the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of first admissions to the Psychiatric Unit of the General Hospital in Barbados, over the period 1st September, 1996 to 28th February, 1997 ...
