Beyond survival: integrated delivery care practices for long-term maternal and infant nutrition, health and development

Order code: OP 195
The objective of Beyond Survival is to examine current knowledge regarding the immediate and long-term nutritional and health benefits of delivery care practices: delayed umbilical cord clamping, immediate skin-to-skin contact between mother and newbor...

$14.00 Latin America and the Caribbean / $18.00 Elsewhere - additional details

Guide for Participatory Local Assessment Community Component of the IMCI Strategy

Order code: OP 181
This document is intended for local personnel in the health services, the Red Cross, and other social players involved in the health area, to support them in carrying out an assessment of their local situations and its health problems, especially those...

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Guiding principles for complementary feeding of the breastfed child

Order code: OP 194
This publication is a compilation of guidelines designed to provide caregivers with appropriate direction regarding optimal feeding of infants and young children.

$10.00 Latin America and the Caribbean / $14.00 Elsewhere - additional details

Height Census and Its Uses: Technical Report

Order code: TP 45
Height censuses of first-grade schoolchildren have been employed by several countries in the Americas since 1979...

$8.00 Latin America and the Caribbean / $8.00 Elsewhere - additional details

Images that Inspire. The mobilization of the Americas to eliminate measles and rubella

Order code: OP 216
This publications gathers the posters that the Member States of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) used in the effort to eliminate measles and rubella in the Region of the Americas.

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Inter-American Investigation of Mortality in Childhood

Order code: SP 386
This book evolved in response to the need to understand the interrelationship between health and disease and to identify the multiple causes of both. It compares the factors involved in different countries of the Americas and in diverse environments--r...

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Maternal Health: The Perennial Challenge

Order code: CH 1
This booklet comprehensively deals with the reproductive health of women in the Americas...

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Maternal Nutrition and Pregnancy Outcomes: Anthropometric Assessment

Order code: SP 529
Use of measurements to assess maternal nutritional status (anthropometric indicators) is essential for identifying women at risk of experiencing pregnancy complications and bearing growth-retarded infants. This book consists of five parts, each of whic...

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Monitoring child development in the IMCI Context

Order code: OP 197
The present manual is intended to provide health professionals—from those involved in academic training to personnel who work directly in child health care—with the tools, integrated into IMCI and placed within the population’s reach, to make effective...

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Neonatal Tetanus Elimination. Field Guide

Order code: SP 602
This guide emphasizes the progress made by surveillance systems in the identification and monitoring of high-risk areas and the conduct of special immunization activities targeting women of childbearing age who live in those areas.

$12.00 Latin America and the Caribbean / $16.00 Elsewhere - additional details