The European Strategy for Tobacco Control (ESTC) reflects the increased political commitment to, and public health expectations of, tobacco control in WHO’s European Region. It was adopted by the WHO Regional Committee for Europe at its fifty-second session in September 2002 and provides...

The population of Latin America is now largely urban. By 1990, 72 percent of the people of the region were living in cities. By 2020, the urban population could reach 83 percent. With increasing urbanization, the region faces problems of poverty, nutrition, and health that are somewhat different...

En Amérique Latine, la population est en grande majorité urbaine. Dès 1990, soixante-douze pour cent des habitants de la région résidaient dans les villes (figure 1). D'ici 2020, la population urbaine pourrait atteindre 83%. Au fil de son urbanisation, la région est confrontée aux...

Cervical cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality in India, accounting for 17 percent of all cancer deaths among women age 30 to 69 years. At current incidence rates, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the annual burden of new cases in India will increase to nearly 225,000...