Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Health in the Americas, 2007.

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Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Health in the Americas, 2007. Washington, DC: PAHO, 2007, 425 + 744 pp. (two volumes), $95,00. ISBN 978 92 75 11622 9 From the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the journal has obtained for review the latest edition of the Health in the Americas. For a European observer, it is of course of interest to look at how the PAHO has chosen to describe and monitor the public health situation of the Americas, and to compare the overall monitoring systems that the European and American WHO regions have available on the web and in publications. This encyclopaedic publication in two volumes, in total over 1100 pages, gives an impressive overview of the classical health indicators in …