Documentation: Main PAHO Products and Activities on This Topic, including Health Promotion

• Ciclovías brochure: English | español | português
• World Hypertension Day, 17 May
  2010: Healthy Weight, Healthy Blood Pressure. English | español
  2009: Salt and High Blood Pressure: Two Silent Killers. Get Informed. Live long.
  English | español
• Mobilizing for Dietary Salt Reduction Policies and Strategies in the Americas: Expert & Country Consultation, 2009  English | español
• World Diabetes Day, 14 November: Unite for Diabetes
  2009: Understand diabetes. Take control: English | español | português
  2008: Be active, eat healthy: English | español
  2007: No child should die of diabetes! English | español
• World Heart Day, 27 September
  2009: Work with Heart English | español
  2007: Team Up for Healthy Hearts: English | español
• Archives page (to end 2008): Healthy Eating & Active Living | español
• Social Marketing: Application & Promoting Healthy Lifestyles, 8/2008, Santiago | español
  4^th Pan American Congress to Promote Vegetable & Fruit Consumption (Spanish only)
• Social Marketing & Healthy Lifestyles, 7–8/2008, Mexico | español
• Physical Activity Training, 2007, Guatemala | español
• Symposium Report—Lay Health Workers (Health Promoters) Project: Community Mobilization to Improve Cardiovascular Health in the Americas, 10/2005, Chile | español
• Caribbean
  • Healthy Caribbean 2008: Civil Society, 10/2008, Barbados | español
  • Caribbean Private Sector Response, 5/2008, Trinidad & Tobago | español
  • Promoting Physical Activity 5/2008, Trinidad & Tobago | español
  • Caribbean Lifestyle Intervention CARLI, 2004 (English only)
  • CARLI—Caribbean Lifestyle Intervention Program, 2001 (English only)
• Advocacy Manual | español | Advocacy Toolkit (English only)

PAHO/WHO Resolutions on Diet & Physical Activity

• Prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases: implementation of the global strategy (World Health Assembly Resolution WHA61.14): English | español | français
• Regional Strategy on an Integrated Approach to the Prevention and Control of Chronic Diseases Including Diet, Physical Activity, and Health (PAHO Resolution, CD47-17 2006): English | español | português | français
  Executive Summary:English | español
  Abstract:The Strategy is comprehensive, requiring a combination of interventions for the population and individuals. It is integrated, spanning prevention and control strategies focusing on the major chronic diseases and cross-cutting risk factors (especially physical activity, tobacco, and alcohol). Finally, it is intersectoral, because most of the major determinants of the chronic disease burden lie outside the health sector.
• Health Promotion (PAHO Resolution CD47-16, 2006): English | español | português | français
• Regional Strategy and Plan of Action on Nutrition in Health and Development, 2006–2015 (PAHO Resolution CD47-18, 2006): English | español | português | français
• Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity, and Health (World Health Assembly Resolution WHA57.17, 2004): English | español | français

Useful Links

• WHO Links
  • Chronic Disease & Health Promotion
  • Promoting Health
  • Why "Move for Health"
  • Activities in WHO Regional Offices related to Diet, Physical Activity, & Noncommunicable Diseases
  • Face to Face with Chronic Disease: Nine Posters
  • WHO Media Center
• Alliances and Networks
  • Ciclovías
    New brochure: English | español | português
  • ProCor: A Global Community Promoting Cardiovascular Health
  • Five a Day / 5 al Día
    • Argentina
    • Chile
    • Peru
    • USA
  • International Fruit & Vegetables Alliance (IFAVA)
  • Healthy Settings
    • Healthy Municipalities & Urban Health: Press release
    • Health-Promoting Schools
    • Local Development & Community Participation
  • Physical Activity Network of the Americas (RAFA-PANA): English | español | português