[Reluctant partner: Canada's relationship with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)].

Juggling demands: Canadian health aid to Latin America since World War II.

BACKGROUND Since the development of the Commonwealth's 1950 Colombo Plan (Canada's first official aid program), health-related development assistance has been an important instrument of Canadian foreign policy, allowing it to gain a presence in a range of countries and help to shape international affairs. This pattern is evident in the history of Canadian multilateral and bilateral health aid t...

Monitoring and evaluation of the PAHO/WHO cooperation project, the Mais Médicos (More Doctors) Program: a mid-term assessment.

Working relations between the Pan- American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) and Brazilian health institutions accumulated a long history of cooperation with mutual benefits, which in many cases were shared with other nations under various cooperation frameworks among countries for health development. A milestone in this relationship is the technical cooperation provided...

CARIBBEAN COMMISSION ON HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT Report of the Caribbean Commission on Health and Development PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION (PAHO/WHO) CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY SECRETARIAT (CARICOM)

The Pan American Health Organization and international health: a history of training, conceptualization, and collective development.

A constantly changing and increasingly complex global environment requires leaders with special competencies to respond effectively to this scenario. Within this context, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) goes beyond traditional leadership training models both in terms of its design as well as its conceptual approach to international health. As an intergovernmental, centenary organiza...

Regional immunization programs as a model for strengthening cooperation among nations.

At the top of the agenda of the meeting were the complex public health issues involved in fighting yellow fever and other epidemic infectious diseases. The final resolution of the first convention stated, " It shall be the duty of the International Sanitary Bureau to lend its best aid and experience toward the widest possible protection of the public health of each of the said Republics, in ord...