Epidemiological Bulletin. Pan American Health Organization
Vol. 26, No.2

June 2005


Contents:

Health Analysis:
- Health Metrics Network: a global partnership to improve access to information for health care practitioners and policy-makers
Presentation of the Health Metric Network as innovative network of cooperation to increase the availability and the use of timely and accurate health information.

Methodological Notes in Epidemiology:
-The cost of antibiotic treatment for priority infectious syndromes in Paraguay, 2004
Analysis on the costs of antibiotic treatments and their unused portion, as economic burden to the families and increase in possibilities of resistance.

- Methods for measuring health inequalities (Part III)
Summary of the principal existing methodologies for the detection of inequality of health.

Norms and Standards in Epidemiology:
- Epidemiological Calendar 2006



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