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Data quality is a cornerstone of wellfunctioning health systems. Sound and reliable information enables better resource allocation, more targeted care, policy development, and implementation, and more effective health education and training. Calls to improve the quality and use of data feature prominently in several national plans of action and in global strategies like the Global Vaccine Action Plan. The goal of the Immunization Data: Evidence for Action (IDEA) project is to identify, review, synthesize, and disseminate what works to improve the use of immunization data and why it works.

Entre 1970 y el 2018, la Región de las Américas experimentó más de 4.500 desastres que ocasionaron la muerte de 569.184 personas y más de 3 millones de heridos. Las emergencias y los desastres, de cualquier tipo, pueden causar pérdidas económicas multimillonarias y agravar de manera significativa el funcionamiento de los sistemas de salud. El Marco de respuesta multiamenaza del sector de la salud tiene como objetivo principal mejorar la capacidad de los países para gestionar la respuesta a emergencias y desastres de forma más eficiente y oportuna.

Between 1970 and 2018, the Region of the Americas experienced over 4,500 disasters that killed 569,184 people and injured more than three million people. Additionally, emergencies and disasters of any kind can cause multimillion-dollar economic losses and can significantly undermine the performance of health systems. Today, more than ever, it is necessary for countries to improve their preparedness and response to health emergencies and disasters--a need expressed by the Member States of the Pan American Health Organization. The main aim of the Health Sector Multi-Hazard Response Framework (MRF) is to improve the capacity of countries to manage their response to emergencies and disasters in a more efficient and timely manner. The MRF facilitates an operational model that makes it possible to identify response activities, taking into account all existing hazards and to carry out those activities within a national framework based on the organization of the health sector. The MRF is designed mainly for health sector authorities and managers responsible for emergency and disaster risk management, guiding them in the process of updating or developing response planning. This ranges from describing the operational model to implementing emergency functions involving various actors, identifying preparedness tools in the health sector, and developing standardized operating procedures, organizational analysis, and specific contingency plans. Implementation of this framework will provide countries with adequate response planning based on a multihazard approach. This will lead to better use of available resources and greater flexibility to deal with any type of event.

In the last decades, health in the Region of the Americas has improved dramatically, yet many people are still being left behind. PAHO established the Commission on Equity and Health Inequalities in the Americas to analyze the impact of drivers influencing health, while proposing actions to improve inequalities in health.

A primeira edição de Lineamientos básicos para el análisis de la mortalidad(Diretrizes básicas para análise da mortalidade) foi publicada em 1992, como partedas atividades de cooperação técnica da Organização Pan-Americana da Saúde(OPAS), em resposta à necessidade de fortalecer as competências dos níveis locais eintermediários dos Ministérios da Saúde, dos institutos nacionais de estatística e dopessoal interessado na análise da mortalidade.Este novo documento é um produto do Plano de ação regional para o fortalecimentodas estatísticas vitais e de saúde (PEVS) da OPAS (2008-2013, prorrogado até 2016)que, mediante a inovação da cooperação técnica entre os países, criou a RedeLatino-americana e do Caribe para o Fortalecimento dos Sistemas de Informaçãoem Saúde (RELACSIS). Promovendo o trabalho entre os países e para os países, nainiciativa da cooperação Sul-Sul, a RELACSIS prioriza a preparação e a análise dosdados subnacionais sobre nascidos vivos e mortalidade. Esta atualização respondeà necessidade identificada pelas equipes interinstitucionais que trabalham nessasáreas para contribuir na tomada de decisão baseada em evidências.

La calidad de los datos es una piedra angular de los sistemas de salud que funcionan bien. La información sólida y confiable permite una mejor asignación de recursos, una atención más específica, el desarrollo y la implementación de políticas, y una educación y capacitación en salud más efectiva. Los llamamientos para mejorar la calidad y el uso de los datos ocupan un lugar destacado en varios planes de acción nacionales y en estrategias globales como el Plan de acción mundial de vacunación. El objetivo del proyecto Datos de inmunización: Evidencia para la acción (IDEA) es identificar, revisar, sintetizar y difundir lo que funciona para mejorar el uso de los datos de inmunización y por qué funciona.

HighlightsThe Caribbean sub-region has the highest premature mortality from NCD in the Americas.Sustained political leadership and multisectoral action to prevent and control NCD is required.Scale-up of technical and financial support to SIDS by the international community is needed.