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Proyecto Tecnología de Salud para la Calidad de la Atención PDF Print E-mail

Información acerca de la cooperación técnica de la OPS/OMS en radiología y radioprotección, tecnologías médicas, sangre segura, calidad de atención y seguridad del paciente, laboratorios de salud pública.

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Blood Services

 One of the missions of the Health Technologies for Quality of Care team of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is to cooperate technically with national blood programs in the Region of the Americas to ensure that they have sufficient quantities of safe blood to provide timely transfusions to all patients who need them, thus contributing to lower mortality and optimal patient care in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Laboratory Services Latest News

Laboratory

Program Description:

LaboratoriosOne of the missions of the Health Technologies for Quality of Care team (THR/HT) of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is to cooperate technically with the National Public Health Institutions, regulatory agencies and the public health national laboratories of the Region of the Americas to ensure the continuous improvement of the laboratory services in the clinical diagnosis and epidemiological surveillance; thus contributing to lower morbidity and mortality and optimal patient care in Latin America and the Caribbean. 

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Radiological Health Program Latest News

Salud Radiológica

Active ImageEsta página electrónica contiene documentos técnicos de la OPS y algunos enlaces (links) con el acceso a herramientas y documentos para facilitar los procesos de mejora en todos y cada uno de los aspectos que abarca la Salud Radiológica como son los Servicios de Diagnóstico por Imagen, los Servicios de Radioterapia, las Tecnologías en Radiomedicina, y la Protección y Seguridad Radiológica del público, pacientes, trabajadores y medio ambiente.

 

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Health Service Physical Infrastructure and Technology Latest News

Health Service Physical Infrastructure and Technology in Latin America and the Caribbean

For more than four decades, PAHO/AMRO has accompanied and participated in the evolution of Health Technology and in particular Health Technology Management (HTM) in the region and has served as a repository for the institutional memory of this process.  It has also been deeply involved with the countries’ healthcare improvement efforts, by supporting the organization of HTM programs and human resource education. The technical cooperation of PAHO/AMRO has been oriented to collaborate with the Member States in foster National Development and Institutional Capacity Building on Healthcare Technology and Physical Infrastructure.

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Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Americas

 Epidemiological week 44 (November 1-7)

35 of 35 countries with confirmed cases
27 countries with deaths among the confirmed cases.


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