Conjunto de Acciones
para la Reducción Multifactorial de Enfermedades
Notransmissibles
An Initiative for Integrated Noncommunicable
Disease Prevention in the Americas
CARMEN is an initiative
of the Pan
American Health Organization and aims to improve
the health status of populations in the Americas by
reducing the risk factors associated with Noncommunicable
diseases (NCDs).
CARMEN is responding to the current
NCD epidemic and to the needs of the Americas by striving
to develop, implement, and evaluate
Policies aimed at simultaneously reducing a set
of common NCD risk factors
Social mobilization and community-based interventions
Epidemiological surveillance systems for risk conditions
Prevention practices that can contribute to the
reduction of health inequities
In order to achieve its objectives,
CARMEN promotes networking among member countries in
the area of integrated NCD prevention. The CARMEN Network
is based on the principle that all countries in the
Americas can benefit from other integrated NCD prevention
initiatives and from similar programs around the world.
Therefore, the CARMEN Network seeks to significantly
impact the NCD epidemic in the Americas by collaborating
with the other World Health Organization Regional Networks
and by participating in the Global Forum on Integrated
NCD Prevention and Control.
CARMEN
