BOOKS OF RtfiDIfGS - PAHO/WHO

FOREWORD
These last years, PAHO with the support of Kellogg Foundation,
has developed a series of workshops In Health Administration for
Latin America and the Caribbean, such as Organizational Behaviour in
Costa Rica, Evaluation and Health Planning in Barbados, Health Economics
and Cost Control in Brazil, Epidemiological Approach to Decision Making
in Chile, Management and Nurse Education in Panama, Strategic Management
(or Planning) In Brazil, and as the latest Operational Research and
System Analysis in Venezuela.
The materials prepared for these workshops, all in Spanish,
have been periodically sent to all existing Administration Programs in
the Region, including those in the Caribbean. Clearly, this Subregion
has not benefited from those documents, and this fact has been stated
by our colleagues in the English-speaking countries of the Caribbean.
Final reports from these workshops and other meetings were
published also only in Spanish in PAHO's "Revista Educaci6n Médica y
Salud."
During these meetings, new approaches to curriculum development,
exchange of research information, selection of best bibliographic references,
and the ,.nuice of articles that should be disseminated to our Region were
discussed. This was accomplished through the input.of meeting participants.
I have no doubt that these articles discipline oriented, are
the tip of an iceberg of hundreds of publications which are periodically
published all over the world. These reprints are being published in
Spanish as books of readings for Latin American countries to support
continuing education of faculties and post-graduate students.