08/May/2015
Collaboration between The Lancet, MEDICC Review - International Journal of Cuban Health & Medicine and with the financial support of the Rockefeller Foundation, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Pan American Health Organization.
Series: Universal Health Coverage in Latin America
The reform of health systems and universal health coverage in Latin America
Rifat Atun, et al.
The fight against social segregation in health care in...
08/May/2015
The Safe Delivery App is an innovative mobile health tool developed by Maternity Foundation in partnership with the University of Copenhagen and the University of Southern Denmark. Through simple animated clinical instruction films, the app can teach birth attendants in hard-to-reach areas how to manage complicated deliveries. The app is based on global clinical guidelines and has the potential to overcome the outreach barriers of conventional training programs, ensuring that...
04/May/2015
The Virtual Campus for Public Health is one of the virtual education programs is discussed in an article published in www.openpraxis.org
Mr. Edgardo De Gracia member of the VCPH regional team was interviewed as part of the investigation that led to the drafting of the article.
The complete article is available at:
http://www.openpraxis.org/index.php/OpenPraxis/article/view/188/152
04/May/2015
The regional team VCPH is pleased to announce the launch of the new regional portal VCPH in HTML5 with better access from mobile devices, with new applications, the latest technology and with a simple and user friendly design.
Among the new features we find:
Help desk portal
Users panel
Manuals and tutorials
FAQ
How to enroll in a course?
Email contact
In the next few months the regional team will be working with the countries nodes for updating their websites.
04/May/2015
In the context of the Health Cuba 2015 International Convention, the Pan American Health Organization presented relevant to the development of human resources for health, as well as relevant to universal access to health care and universal coverage of health issues, among which are the following:
"Human resources for health. Trends and challenges in Latin America. "Conference by Fernando Menezes Da Silva, Head of Unit, Human Resources for Health.
"Virtual Campus for Public...
20/Apr/2015
Because the enormous interest and the number of applications received for the course "Nursing Leadership: Empowering Nurse Leaders in Latin America (2015)" the coordination of the course decide to increase the number of seats. Candidates selected for this edition will be informed soon.
The new date for the beginning of the course will be on May 18 and will run until August 10, 2015.
Candidates not selected at this time will have a chance to take the course in future editions...
14/Apr/2015
In the framework of the VII Summit of the Americas in Panama, the Departments of Health Systems and Services and Communications prepared the exhibition of photographs Towards universal access to health and universal health coverage in the Americas.
The photographs underscore the importance of health in the lives of people and highlights key steps for countries to move.
We invite you to view a sample of this online exhibition:
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14/Apr/2015
FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS:
The WHO HQ Library instructor will lead the offered courses online using WebEX.
Courses are approximately 90 minutes in duration with time allowed for questions/interaction between instructor and participants.
Please verify your local time by using the following site http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/
Participants need a computer, internet connection and ability to install the Java script to take full advantage of the course.
Audio...
13/Apr/2015
Between 26 and 27 March Eng. Edgardo De Gracia and Lic. Gabriel Listovsky attended a workshop in Lima, Peru intended to assist the development of virtual training projects managed by the Directorate-General for Management Development HR Ministry of Health of Peru.
The Ministry of Health of Peru manage their own virtual classrooms that has initiated the development of massive self-instruction programs such as PROFAM (Diploma in comprehensive care with a focus on Family and Community Health)....
06/Apr/2015
Panama, March 31, 2015 (PAHO / WHO) - Officials from several institutions in the Panamanian health sector participated in the workshop skills training tutorials and design of virtual environments, with the aim of strengthening the implementation process Node Panama in the Virtual Campus of Public Health, PAHO / WHO.
"This workshop is very important because it seeks to implement the Node Panama to update staff nationwide," said Dr. Itza Barahona de Mosca, Director General of...
