America's Challenge

Injury in the Americas: the relative burden and challenge.

OBJECTIVES To present evidence to support a higher priority for injury prevention in initiatives, research, and budget allocations. METHODS Recent data (2000) for deaths from injury, infectious disease, heart disease, and cancer from 11 countries in the Region of the Americas were analyzed. Analyses focused on: first, Potentially Productive Years of Life Lost (PPYLL, discounted) from deaths o...

Eight Americas: A New Definition for “Americas”?

Sam Singer In their essay in October’s PLoS Medicine, Daniel Reidpath and Kit Yee Chan challenge the widely cited link between HIV-related stigma and the spread of the epidemic [1]. This is an important question, given the heavy emphasis on stigma in policies of the World Health Organization, the Joint United Programme on HIV/AIDS, and other public health institutions, but in making their argum...

The challenge and prize for international health organizations in the Americas.

The Americas:

As the July presidential election nears, analysts and investors are growing more vocal about whether Mexico might once again be rocked by a major economic crisis, as has been the case at the close of each six-year presidential term since 1976. According to Goldman Sachs, the probability of Mexico facing a currency crisis in the near future has increased by one-third during the past two months. ...

Angiostrongyliasis in the Americas

The helminth Angiostrongylus costaricensis Morera & Céspedes, 1971 is endemic to the Americas and is responsible for a pathological abdominal syndrome, caused by the presence of the adult helminth in the mesenteric arteries. This is microscopically characterized by eosinophilic infiltration, vascular abnormality and a granulomatous reaction (GraeffTeixeira et al., 1987). The disease was first r...