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Public Health Geographical Locations America

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• The (statistical) number of inhabitants per doctor is given per country in its respective section.

  • The average number for North America is about 530 inhabitants / doctor.
    (Min.: USA: 341; Max.: Mexico: 800)

  • The average number for Central America is about 2.000 inhabitants / doctor.
    (Min.: Cuba: 303; Max.: Jamaica: 6,159)

  • The average number for South America is about 1.100 inhabitants / doctor.
    (Min.: Argentina: 340; Max.: Guyana: 2,552)

• The WHO Regional Office for the Americas (AMRO) / Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is located in Washington, D.C. (USA), the Member States of AMRO/PAHO are those listed here.

• CATHALAC - Water Center for the Humid Tropics of Latin America and the Caribbean - "serves as an administrative focal point for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) in the area of training, research and technology transfer in the field of water resources and the environment, with special emphasis on problems and issues related to the humid tropics"

• CEPIS - Centro Panamericano de Ingeniería Sanitaria y Ciencias del Ambiente - Pan American Center for Sanitary Engineering and Environmental Sciences

• Georgetown University Carribean Project (USA) - "1) to provide U.S. policy makers with factual information and perspectives on the region that they do not usually encounter; 2) to facilitate communication and dissemination of information among a broad array of actors, both regional and extra-regional, concerning regional issues; and 3) to enhance the opportunities for students and scholars from both the Caribbean and the U.S. to develop their knowledge of each other and the region"

• Inter-American Development Bank
  • Inter-American Institute for Social Development

• LADARK - Latin America Development Archive - "contains data sets and other information useful to social scientists who are doing research on Latin American development. These materials may be copied freely for scholarly research and educational purposes. Ladark is a project of the Program in Comparative International Development (PCID) in the Department of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. PCID has a collaborative arrangement with the Universidad Del Valle de Guatemala (UVG) in Guatemala City"

• OPS - Centro Latinoamericano y del Caribe para Información en Ciencias de la Salud (BIREME)

• Organization of Eastern Carribean States (OECS) - "The Organisation of the Eastern Caribbean States, OECS, came into being on 18 June 1981, when seven Eastern Caribbean countries signed a treaty, agreeing to co-operate with each other and promote unity and solidarity among their Member States. This treaty became known as the Treaty of Basseterre, so named in honour of the capital city where it was signed. The member States of the OECS are Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada Montserrat, St Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia and St Vincent and the Grenadines. The British Virgin Islands and Anguilla are associate members"

• Red Latinoamericana de Salud Publica - the Latin American Public Health Net

• Resource Center of the Americas - "A non-profit organization formed in 1983, the Resource Center of the Americas has grown from a small grass-roots network of concerned individuals into a significant community institution of more than 1,600 members and several thousand friends ... [it] provides information and develops programs that demonstrate the connections between the people of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States. For more than fifteen years we have built bridges across communities, highlighting the voices of the silenced and ignored. The Resource Center looks forward to continuing that work by defending human rights in the era of globalization

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