Pan American Health Organization
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Name (Latin)
Pan American Health Organization
Other forms of name
Oficina Panamericana de la Salud
PAHO (Pan American Health Organization)
P.A.H.O. (Pan American Health Organization)
O.P.S. (Pan American Health Organization)
Organización Sanitaria Panamericana
Organização Panamericana da Saúde
OPS (Pan American Health Organization)
Organización Panamericana de la Salud
Organização Pan-Americana da Saúde
OPAS (Pan American Health Organization)
Organização Panamericana de Saúde
See Also From tracing corporate name
Pan American Health Organization. Directing Council
Pan American Sanitary Organization
Sources of Information
- PAHO/WHO Committee on the Textbook Program for the Teaching of Community Health Nursing. Informe del Comité ... 1975:
- Rept. on the nutritional status ... 1982:
- BIREME, 1980:
- PAHO quarterly, Nov. 1958, surrogate:
- As Ciências sociais em saúde na América Latina, 1985:
- Situación nutricional en el Perú, 1989:
- Recursos humanos em saúde no MERCOSUL, 1995:
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Wikipedia description:
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) in charge of international health cooperation in the Americas. It fosters technical cooperation among member countries to fight communicable and noncommunicable diseases, strengthen health systems, and respond to emergencies and disasters. PAHO has 35 Member States and four Associate Members in the region. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., PAHO is the regional office for the World Health Organization in the Americas, and the health organization of the Inter-American System. It is known in Latin America as the OPS (Spanish: Organización Panamericana de la Salud) or OPAS (Portuguese: Organização Pan-Americana da Saúde).
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