Introduction 1. The Staff Regulations of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau (PASB) may be supplemented or amended by the Directing Council or the Pan American Sanitary Conference of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) pursuant to Staff Regulation 12.1. 2. In accordance with Staff Rule 020, the Staf...
Adequate professional education is one of the basic requisites for the progressive improvement of health services in the Americas, The Director, in presenting his 1958 Annual Report to the Directing Council, called attention to the governments increasing requests for collaboration in the training of phys...
In Resolution XXV adopted at its XIV Meeting, the Directing Council requested that the Director study the opportunities for interchange of teaching and other health personnel among countries. The report, prepared at the request of the Council with the expert advice of a consultant in this field, summariz...
This paper presents a summary of the problems of surgical care in the Cauca Valley and proposes as an alternative solution to these problems the design of a system of surgical care that, on the basis of maximum utilization of existing resources, can substantially reduce costs and increase coverage. The i...
Technology is the application of theoretical knowledge and scientific principles to the solution of problems; as related to education technology aims to improve the design, implementation and evaluation of teaching and learning. Thus, educational technology does not correspond to the introduction and ope...
Resolution XXXII, approved at the XXV Meeting of the Directing Council (1977), recommended application of the Medium-Term Program for the Development of Human Resources and requested the presentation of periodic progress reports on it. This document covers the first 30 months of implementation of the Pro...
The actual document is the first of three steps, i) a literature study, ii) a questionnaire study and iii) selected case studies, in an effort by Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) to profile midwifery services and practices in the Americas. A variety of collaborating partners are involved, among th...
This document was prepared in the context of a redefinition of the organization and policies of the Human Resources Development Program of the Pan American Health Organization. Its purpose is to determine future lines of action in the area of development of human resources for nursing, based on an analys...
In connection with the 10th meeting of the Technical Commission for Human Resources Development in Central America and the Dominican Republic, a three-day workshop was held to help identify the current situation in each country regarding the human resource planning process and capacity-building to measur...
INTRODUCTION: The terms of reference required, inter alia, an analysis of the dynamics of the formation of health professionals in Belize, including available information on the immigration and emigration of these personnel into Belize and the resultant impact on HRH production, deployment, absorption, r...