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Within the ongoing strategy of the Workers' Health program at the Pan American Health Organization on strengthening surveillance in the field of workers' health in the Americas (the Region), a project was conducted in July 1999 in Washington, D.C. The objectives of the project were to discuss the problems found in the surveillance of workers' health, to develop a methodology and use it to prioritize and select the top three occupational sentinel health events for incorporation into the surveillance systems in the Region, and to develop the initial protocols for establishing the surveillance systems for the three chosen occupational sentinel health events. The Pan American Health Organization invited 24 occupational health experts from the Region to participate in the project. Over an intensive 3-day period, the experts heard reports of workplace surveillance activities in the various countries in the Region; developed prioritization methods; identified and prioritized a list of occupational sentinel health events; and developed three surveillance protocols, one each for occupational fatal injuries, pesticide poisoning, and low back pain. The results on the prioritization of occupational sentinel health events and the development of surveillance protocols are reported in this article.
Fully mapped tree census plots of large area, 25 to 52 hectares, have now been completed at six different sites in tropical forests, including dry deciduous to wet evergreen forest on two continents. One of the main goals of these plots has been to evaluate spatial patterns in tropical tree populations. Here the degree of aggregation in the distribution of 1768 tree species is examined based on the average density of conspecific trees in circular neighborhoods around each tree. When all individuals larger than 1 centimeter in stem diameter were included, nearly every species was more aggregated than a random distribution. Considering only larger trees (>/= 10 centimeters in diameter), the pattern persisted, with most species being more aggregated than random. Rare species were more aggregated than common species. All six forests were very similar in all the particulars of these results.
This paper reports a diagnostic inquiry on the human rights situation of persons with mental disorders in four Central American countries. The study was conducted by teams constituted of mental health workers and human rights lawyers, using a standard questionnaire prepared by the World Health Organization (WHO) and adapted for regional purposes by the America-based WHO office. The inquiry identified violations in different areas, e.g., involuntary admissions, informed consent and others. In general, violations were not associated with the level of social development of the country but with the affiliation of the care-giving system (private vs. public). This study will be followed by activities aimed at improving the current situation.