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| Policy and Advocacy |
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Policy and Advocacy The policy line of action in the Regional Strategy for Chronic Diseases encourages and provides technical cooperation for the establishment of sound and explicit public policies that support better health status and a life free of chronic disease-related disability, in initiatives taken to establish public health policies based on key WHO resolutions and recommendations that will address the broad social, economic, and political determinants of health. Advocacy will be utilized to advance policy and institutional changes that will support chronic disease programs. It will emphasize the key role of governmental functions and empower the health sector to engage other sectors in collaborative actions to ensure that chronic disease issues are collectively addressed. Health promotion and advocacy are one of the main thrusts of the policy line of action. This involves IEC campaigns (information/education/communication) to help people and health professionals become more aware of health issues. It also means raising awareness among not only the general public but policy-makers as well, as well as capacity-building and intersectorial (public, private, civil society) collaboration.
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| Integrated Disease Management |
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| Estonia’s Minister of Social Affairs visits PAHO in Washington, D.C. |
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| Pan American Forum to promote cross-sector action against non-communicable diseases |
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| Experts pledge multisectoral action to fight non-communicable diseases |
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| Experts pledge multisectoral action to fight non-communicable diseases |
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| Monitoring Regional Targets for the Prevention and Control of NCDs |
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| Distribution of Causes of Deaths |
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| Interventions for the Prevention and Management of Diabetes and Obesity |
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| CVD burden of deaths by Income |
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| Cardivascular disease. Situation and trend |
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| Cardiovascular diseases mortality by major groups of causes |
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| Cardiovascular Diseases |
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| Publications and Documents: Integrated Disease Management - Cardiovascular Diseases |
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| Publications and Documents: Integrated Disease Management: Cardiovascular Diseases - Guides |
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| Experts and decision makers get together to address non-communicable diseases and environmental changes on the U.S.-Mexico Border |
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| Non-Communicable Diseases |
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| Sir George Alleyne Praises NCD Alliance Work For the UNHLM |
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| Washington Post Forum Spotlights NCDs |
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| Premature NCD deaths |
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| UNHLM Highlights |
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| 148th Session of the Executive Committee |
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| Health Situation in The Americas: Health Indicators 2009 |
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| Health Leaders Promise New Action to Reduce Chronic Diseases in the Americas |
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| WHO Report Urges Action to Reduce the Health Impact of Harmful Drinking |
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| Publications about Policy and Advocacy |
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| Salt Fortification |
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| Advocacy |
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| Projects |
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| Management of CVD |
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| High risk approach |
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| Salt reduction meeting in Calgary |
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| Tools |
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| Survey on Diabetes, Hypertension, and Chronic Disease Risk Factors: San José, Costa Rica |
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| Survey on Diabetes, Hypertension, and Chronic Disease Risk Factors: Managua, Nicaragua, 2010 |
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| Survey of Diabetes, Hypertension and Chronic Disease Risk Factors: Belize |
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| Survey of Diabetes, Hypertension and Chronic Disease Risk Factors: Villa Nueva, Guatemala 2007 |
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| Compilation of Legislation for the English-Speaking Caribbean Countries and Territories on Prevention and Control of Obesity, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Diseases |
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| Databases and targets |
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| Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure |
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| Cardiovascular Diseases |
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| World Hypertension Day 2010: Healthy Weight, Healthy Blood Pressure |
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| Collection of Legal Guidelines for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control in Latin America |
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| World Heart Day 2009: Work with Heart |
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| Regional Workshop The Economic, Fiscal and Welfare Implications of Chronic Diseases in the Americas [2009] |
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| Health Experts Call on Industry, Consumers to Cut Salt to Save Lives |
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| Policy Statement on Dietary Salt Reduction |
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| Salt Reduction |
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| First Meeting of the Expert Group on CVD Prevention through Dietary Salt Reduction |
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| Population-Wide Prevention & Control Approaches to CVDs |
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| Cardiovascular Diseases |
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| STEPwise Approach to Stroke Surveillance |
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| Minimum, optimum and optional data set for NCDs |
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| PanAmerican STEPS Instrument and Supporting Material |
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| Pan American STEPS |
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| STEPwise Approach |
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| Health Situation in the Americas: Basic Indicators 2009 |
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| NCD Newsletter |
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| PAHO Experts Recommend Lowering Salt Consumption to Save Lives |
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| Regional Update. Pandemic (H1N1) 2009. (published on August 21, 2009) |
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| ProCor: A Global Community Promoting Cardiovascular Health |
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| Publications about Policy and Advocacy |
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| Fact Sheet: Chronic Disease in the Americas |
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| Chronic Disease Archives |
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| PAHO Position Paper on CNCD Surveillance |
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| Chronic Disease Surveillance |
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| Ciclovías recreativas: A Public Health Program |
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| Patient's Record Card (Caribbean Chronic Care Collaborative / CCCC) |
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| Implementation Manual for Collaborative Projects to Improve the Quality of Care for People with CNCD |
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| Questionnaire to Assess the Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Diseases |
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| Reducing Salt Intake in Populations: WHO Forum |
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| CARMEN Network |
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| Chronic Diseases |
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| Fact Sheet: Hypertension |
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| Hypertension |
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| Nutrition Experts Call on Food Industry to Support "Trans Fat Free Americas" |
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| Key Facts about PAHO |
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| World Heart Day: Team Up for a Healthy Heart |
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