Accessing PAHO Information
The PAHO HQ Library Reference and Information Service has gathered together in this section useful lists, information and links for finding PAHO-related information.
The Constitution of the Pan American Health Organization can be found in the:
Basic Documents of the Pan American Health Organization, Sixteenth edition. Washington, D.C.: PAHO; 2002 (Official Document No. 308).
This publication includes the basic documents pertaining to the governance of the Pan American Health Organization, including the Pan American Sanitary Code; the constitutions of the Pan American Health Organization and of the World Health Organization; the Rules of Procedure of the Pan American Sanitary Conference, the Directing Council, and the Executive Committee; and the Financial Regulations of the Pan American Health Organization.
The Constitution of the Pan American Health Organization
Books:
Books published by PAHO may be purchased from PAHO or may be available in a local library in your area. For information on ordering, consult the
PAHO Online Bookstore on the web. To receive a PAHO publications catalog by mail, send a request with your mailing address to sales@paho.org.
PAHO Online Bookstore has a partial listing of Out-of-Print Publications in English. These books can no longer be purchased from PAHO; they are available only in archival collections in local libraries or in the PAHO Publication Centers. The complete list of PAHO Publications (bibliographic records) may also be searched in the PAHO Institutional Memory database. For PAHO publications from the field, please visit the individual country web pages such as Publicaciones OPS Argentina (Click on Publications link on left hand margin). Another access point is BIREME's Virtual Health Library.
PALTEX Catalog (in Spanish). PALTEX Catalog provides more than 400 Spanish textbooks for medical students and health workers. The listing is available in Spanish only.
Disasters and Humanitarian Assistance Publications and Training Materials
PAHO Booksellers
PAHO Publications Centers (PPCs)
Periodicals:
The contents, abstracts and fulltext pertaining to the peer-reviewed Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública/Pan American Journal of Public Health is available online from January 1997 to the present through different access points (SciELO, Institutional Memory, Ingenta...)
The inaugural issue of the Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública/Pan American Journal of Public Health which began in January 1997, is a merge of the once monthly Boletín de la Oficina Sanitaria Panamericana started in 1922 and selected translated articles which began to be published in the quarterly Bulletin of the Pan American Health Organization in 1966.
The new journal also includes human resources and epidemiological information which would have appeared in the former Educación Médica y Salud , another PAHO periodical which was discontinued.
The Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública/Pan American Journal of Public Health is indexed in Index Medicus (MEDLINE), Excerpta Medica (EMBASE), the Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature database (LILACS), Biological Abstracts, and in some other sources.
The PAHO Institutional Memory Database contains the bibliographic records pertaining to the Revista articles. The bibliographic reference is also linked to the fulltext of each article articles, started in 1997.
All article references pertaining to the earlier issues of the Boletín de la Oficina Sanitaria Panamericana and Bulletin of the Pan American Health Organization are also found in the databases. Full text links to these will be available in the future.
PAHO periodicals may be available in local libraries in your area/country, and photocopies of such articles may be purchased through document delivery services. Please consult your area library. The PAHO library does provide a limited service of supplying photocopies of articles appearing in PAHO periodicals. There is a minimum charge of $10.00 per article if sent through normal mail.
The Epidemiological Bulletin is available in full text from 1990, Vol. 11, No. 1 to the present. These are also accessible by searching the Institutional Memory Database.
Other periodical publications:
Others (Bulletins, Magazines, Newsletters.) Direct link for Perspectives in Health Magazine
PAHO Press Releases Press Releases are handled by our Public Information Office
News & Public Information PAHO Videos, Photos, etc... are handled by our Public Information Office
PAHO Unpublished Technical Documents:
PAHO Unpublished documents are also found in the PAHO Library's Institutional Memory Database or http://library.paho.org. These may be found in the database by author, title, subject or document number. Once inside the database, the selected bibliographic record that is available in full text has an Electronic Access link at the end of the bibliographic record, usually this being a PDF or htm file. PAHO library began to include the fulltext of selected PAHO technical documents beginning in 1997.
The Institutional Memory Database also contains the full text of Governing Body Resolutions and those of the Working Documents are being incorporated in the database retrospectively.
For additional links to fulltext documents pertaining to specific Technical Programs available through the PAHO Web, click on Technical Programs- List of Web Documents by Office.
PAHO documentation from the PAHO Country Documentation Offices and Pan American Center Libraries (located in the Americas Region) go to the Directory of Information and Documentation Centers or to BIREME's Virtual Health Library.
Organizational Structure Click on chart for program information.
The various Annual and Quadrennial Reports of the Director are listed on the page of the Office of the Director web url site at: where a recent list of such Publications are listed.
For similar older reports, please search the Institutional Memory Database.
General Information
PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centers
WHO Collaborating Centres Database
PAHO Resolutions may be found in the PAHO Institutional Memory Database.
There are three sets of organizational resolutions. Their document numbering system uses Spanish acronyms for their numbering system, and you may search for these as a subject using the Spanish Subject Heading of the Conference combined with the English or Spanish Subject Heading for "PAHO Resolutions" or by Resolution Numbers. The names of the conferences are:
Executive Committee = Comité Ejecutivo de la OPS Acronym: (CE)
Directing Council = Consejo Directivo de la OPS Acronym: (DC)
Pan American Sanitary Conference = Conferencia Sanitaria Panamericana de la OPS Acronym: (CSP)
Search all the Executive Committee Resolutions using the corresponding Spanish Conference Subject Heading
Search all the Directing Council Resolutions using the corresponding Spanish Conference Subject Heading
Search all the Pan American Sanitary Conference Resolutions using the corresponding Spanish Conference Subject Heading
Using the Resolution Numbers - Examples:
If you have the resolution number, put it in the "Words & Phrases" line using the following format as examples:
"CE120.R1"
"CD43.R1"
"CSP25.R1"
Because of the imbedded "period" in the document number, you must include the resolution number with quotes so that the system will accept it for searching.
If you want ALL resolutions pertaining to either the CE or CD or CSP, enter one of these meeting names in full (as indicated above) in the "Subject" line and enter PAHO Resolutions in another "Subject" line (change pull down menu and select another option as Subject).
See Example below:
"Subject": Conferencia Sanitaria Panamericana de la OPS (must be in Spanish) and keep default of Boolean AND)
"Subject": Enter (in English or Spanish): PAHO resolutions OR resoluciones ops
If you do not have the resolution number, then you will need to do a word or subject search.
See Example below:
In "Subject" line enter: PAHO Resolutions (could be in English or Spanish as above)
In "Words or Phrases" enter the word(s) you want (Could be English or Spanish) AND/OR
In "Subject" enter the subject word(s) you want (Check the Browse list to pick the correct Spanish Subject Heading from the Index. They are currently in Spanish only.
Use pull down menu under Language to limit to English or Spanish language documents (only a few are available in Portuguese).
Consult the Search Manual for additional information.
WHO Resolutions are found on the WHO Web Site. WHO Policy Documents or http://www.who.int/ism/mis/WHO-policy/index.en.html
Searching WHO Policy
You can find the bibliographic references of the PAHO Governing Body Working Documents of the Conferences pertaining to the Executive Committee (CE), Directing Coucil (CD) and Pan American Sanitary Conference (CSP) in the PAHO Institutional Memory Database by performing a search.
Examples:
If you have the Document Number, use it under "Words and Phrases." If there is a period within the document number, use quotes around the document number for searching.
If you want ALL documents - in English (without the resolutions) pertaining to either the CE or CD or CSP, do the following:
In "Subject" line, enter the conference name in Spanish (See Resolutions above)
Use Pull Down Menu on right and select Boolean option NOT
In "Subject" line (open up another pull down option) enter in English or Spanish: PAHO resolutions or resoluciones ops
In "Subject" line, enter in Spanish, (all SUBJECT entries have to be in Spanish at this time) to search for: Conferencia Sanitaria Panamericana de la OPS
and Under Search Limits, use pull down menu for Language to limit to English Language records.
WHO Policy documents are found on the WHO Web Site. WHO Policy Documents or http://www.who.int/m/topics/who_policy_documentation/en/index.html Searching WHO Policy
Health Data or http://www.paho.org/Selection.asp?SEL=HD&LNG=ENG
Atlas of Inequities
Basic Health Indicators
Core Health Data
Country Health Profiles
Trends & Situation Analysis
Health Statistics from the Americas, 2003 Edition Only available in Electronic Format.
Health in the Americas Vol I. 2002 This is a PAHO Scientific Publication No. 587, 2002. In this 2002 edition, the analysis of Health in the Americas is oriented toward documenting inequalities in health. In order to best show the analysis at both the Regional and country levels, this edition, as were previous ones, is presented in two volumes. Volume I's eight chapters present a Regional perspective on the current health situation. This volume includes analyses of the status and trends of several important health and health-related indicators and determinants, ranging from mortality and changes in life expectancy to the impact that income-level and income-distribution inequalities have on the population's health.
Volume II presents the most up-to-date health situation analysis for each of the 48 countires and territories of the Americas. This volume is a product of a Regionwide analytical effort that is conducted using a common framework that includes an analysis of overall health status, specific health problems, and the response of health systems and services.
WHO statistics: WHOSIS found on the WHO web url site at:
The Pan American Sanitary Code is found in the Basic Documents of the Pan American Health Organization, Sixteenth edition. Washington, D.C.: PAHO; 2002 (Official Document No. 308).
This publication includes the basic documents pertaining to the governance of the Pan American Health Organization, including the Pan American Sanitary Code; the constitutions of the Pan American Health Organization and of the World Health Organization; the Rules of Procedure of the Pan American Sanitary Conference, the Directing Council, and the Executive Committee; and the Financial Regulations of the Pan American Health Organization.
Related publication: The Pan American Sanitary Code: Toward a Hemispheric Health Policy, 1924 - 75th Anniversary - 1999
26th PAN AMERICAN SANITARY CONFERENCE
Washington, D.C., 23-27 September 2002
Strategic Plan 2003-2007 for the Pan American Health Organization
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