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CHILD AND ADOLESCENT HEALTH

Family and Community Health (FCH) supports country efforts to strengthen public health interventions aimed at improving individual, family, and community health; increase access to health and social services; and use of integrated, evidence-based, appropriate, and sustainable interventions.

FCH is a new Management Area at PAHO; which includes Child and Adolescent Health, HIV/AIDS, Immunization, Nutrition, Women and Maternal Health; and two Pan American Centers: the Caribbean Food and Nutrition Institute (CFNI) in Jamaica, and the Latin American Center for Perinatology and Human Development (CLAP) in Uruguay.
 
 HIGHLIGHTS

Strategic directions of technical cooperation
FCH strategic directions for 2006-07 biennium.  
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PAHO Multi-Country Study: Exploring the Association between Intimate Partner Violence and Maternal and Perinatal Health
Protocol for a multinational domestic violence study which will be carried out among in women in puerperium stage who have given birth in selected hospitals in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Argentina and Guyana. 
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 PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER RESOURCES   

EUROLAC Bulletin on Family and Community Health from PAHO PDF file
Resolution CD44.R.I2 (Family and Community Health) PDF file
Family and Community Health, Work Program 2004-2005 Power Point file
 
 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS AND ALLIANCES   

Child and Adolescent Health
Women and Maternal Health
HIV/AIDS and STI's
Healthy Lyfestyles and Nutrition
Expanded Program in Immunization
Family and Community Health
 
GLOBAL STRATEGY FOR INFANT & YOUNG CHILD FEEDING; WHO CHILD GROWTH STANDARDS

Caribbean Workshop on the WHO/UNICEF Global Strategy for Infant Young Child Feeding and the New WHO Child Growth Standards, Fort du France, Matinique, October 13-14.

Reunión Centroamericanana para Implementar la Estrategia Mundial para la Alimentación del Lactante y del Niño Pequeño, Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala, Febrero 8-10, 2005.

Promoción de los Nuevos Estándares de la OMS para el Crecimiento del Niño, Consulta regional 9 y 10 de diciembre del 2004, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Cuernavaca, México.


NUTRITION

Beyond survival: Integrated delivery care practices for long-term maternal and infant nutrition, health and development. PDF file

Quantifying the Benefits of Breastfeeding: A Summary of the Evidence.

ProPAN: Process for the Promotion of Child Feeding.

Guiding Principles for Complimentary Feeding of the Brestfeed Child.

Essential delivery care practices for maternal and newborn health and nutrition.