Topics
In 2012 cancer accounted for 1.3 million deaths in the Americas. A third of all of those could be prevented by avoiding key risk factors like tobacco use, harmful use of alcohol, unhealthy diet, and physical inactivity.
Mandates and Strategies
- WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC)
- Cancer Prevention and Control Resolution
- Regional Strategy and Plan of Action on Nutrition in Health and Development, 2006-2015 (Resolution)
- Regional Policy and Strategy for ensuring quality of Health Care, including patient safety - 2007 (Resolution)
- Primary Health Care in the Americas: Lessons learned over 25 years and future challenges - 2003 (Resolution)
- Public Health Response to Chronic Diseases - 2002 (Resolution)
- PAHO Strategic Plan 2008-2012
- Health in the Americas 2008-2017
- Regional Strategy and Plan of Action on an Integrated Approach to the Prevention and Control of Chronic Diseases - 2006
- Trans Fat-Free - Declaration of Rio de Janeiro
Tools related to cancer surveillance
Publications
Improving data for decision-making: a toolkit for cervical cancer prevention and control programmes
The toolkit presents an aligned package of operational resources for improving the availability and use of high-quality data for decision-making in cervical cancer programmes. The standardised tools and guiding information are designed to be adapted to country and programmatic context. This package aims to assist ministries of health and other stakeholders in generating the information necessary to plan, implement, monitor, evaluate, and scale cervical cancer prevention and control programmes.Read more