Health in the Americas, 2002 Edition
Auteur: Pan American Health Organization
Nombre de pages: 1042 pages
ISBN: 9275115877, 9789275115879
Edition: Pan American Health Organization, Pan American Sanitary Bureau, Regional Office of the World Health Organization
Date de publication: Pan American Health Organization, Pan American Sanitary Bureau, Regional Office of the World Health Organization
Description: Volume I describes the health situation from a regional perspective and contains a series of chapters that identify and analyze the most important general, demographic, and mortality trends of the period; major determinants of health as seen from a variety of political, social, economic, and financial standpoints; principal trends and characteristics of the ongoing health sector reform movement; the role of individuals and communities in promoting health; the association between the physical environment and human living conditions; principal diseases and health problems; the extent of human an.