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Annotation: This two-volume set reports on health conditions throughout the Americas generally, and specifically in the 46 countries and territories within the Americas, and it describes and analyzes the progress, constraints, and challenges of member states in their efforts to improve the health of the peoples of the region. Volume one covers the region as a whole and discusses health in the context of development, health conditions and trends, sustainable development and environmental health, public policies and health systems and services, health and international cooperation, and prospects for regional health. Volume two provides maps of each country and territory, and discusses the general context and health determinants, the health of different population groups, health conditions and problems, and the response of the health sector. It also includes a section on the United States-Mexico border area. Charts and figures provide statistical data throughout each volume. A lis of acronyms used is at the end of each volume. This publication is available in English and Spanish.

Contact: Pan American Health Organization, 525 23rd Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20037, Telephone: (202) 974-3000 Fax: (202) 974-3663 Web Site: http://new.paho.org $95.00, plus shipping and handling; CD ROM also available for $75.00, plus shipping and handling.

• Volume 1
• Volume 2

Keywords: Central America, Health surveys, National surveys, North America, Population surveillance, South America, Spanish language materials, Statistical data

Annotation: This report, presented in Panama City, Panama, on June 3, 2007, by the ministers and secretaries of Health of the Americas, lists health priorities that Pan-American governments propose to tackle over the next decade. The report includes a statement of intent, principles and values, a situation analysis and description of health trends in the Americas, and areas of action. Endnotes and references are included. The document is available in English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Contact: Pan American Health Organization, 525 23rd Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20037, Telephone: (202) 974-3000 Fax: (202) 974-3663 Web Site: http://new.paho.org Available from the website.

• English
• Spanish

Keywords: Access to health care, Central America, Cultural factors, Economic factors, Ethnic factors, Health planning, International health, International programs, Latin America, Non English language materials, Racial factors, South America, Spanish language materials

Annotation: This report was made to the U.S. Congress Committee on Appropriations. It contains two volumes; the first has the subtitle, "The Use of Child Labor in U.S. Manufactured and Mined Imports;" the second has the subtitle, "The Use of Child Labor in U.S. Agricultural Imports and Forced and Bonded Child Labor." The report explains why child labor is used in these industries and what the working conditions and terms of employment are for such workers. Specific profiles are given for manufacturing and mining industries and for the production of particular crops in Africa, Asia, and Latin America that are ultimately imported into the United States. The second volume also defines forced and bonded child labor and describes situations involving forced child labor; an additional section details the service sector and illegal economy. Appendices provide documents from numerous international conventions and declarations on the rights of working children.

Contact: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs, 200 Constitution Avenue, N.W., Room C-4325, Washington, DC 20210, Telephone: (202) 693-4770 Fax: (202)693-4780 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.dol.gov/ilab Available to read online or for mobile devices from several vendors.

• Vol. I
• Vol. II

Keywords: Africa, Agricultural injuries, Asia, Central America, Children, Industry, International data, Occupational injuries

Annotation: These papers discuss nutrition individuality; placental function and malnutrition; nutrition of pregnant women in Thailand, Central America, Panama, and industrialized societies; maternal nutrition and fetal growth in developing societies; fetal defense mechanisms; routes of fetal infection and mechanisms of fetal damage; fetal malnutrition and postnatal immunocompetence; diagnosis of chronic perinatal infections; nutritional influences in industrial societies; infection and low birth weight in an industrialized society and developing country; survival and physical growth in infancy and early childhood; birth weight and psychomotor performance in rural Guatemala; synergistic effects of maternal malnutrition and infection in the infant; and animal models for investigation of latent effects of malnutrition.

Keywords: Central America, Fetal development, Fetal diseases, Guatemala, Low birthweight, Maternal nutrition, Panama, Perinatal health, Placenta, Pregnant women, Psychomotor development, Thailand

Annotation: This book discusses the status of infant mortality around the world; Inter-American investigation of mortality in childhood; patterns of mortality in infancy and early childhood; methods of efforts to reduce infant mortality in World Health Organization Southeast Asia region; infant mortality; methodologic advances in the study of infant mortality; and infant mortality in Sweden.

Keywords: Central America, Child mortality, Infant mortality, North America, South America, Southeast Asia, Sweden, World Health Organization