Non-capital project paper (PROP) : health and demographic studies -- population/family planning

The project will be implemented by the Council of Public Health, comprised of Central American and Panamanian Ministers of Public Health, and the Organization of Central American States (ODECA), the Council"s Executive Secretariat. The subproject will develop a regional mass education program in maternal/child health, including family planning; expand the Regional Information Center on Health and Population; implement a regional program for collection and use of demographic and health data; and develop regional training courses for population personnel. In addition, the subproject will establish regional standards for the diagnosis and treatment of communicable diseases; conduct population studies; organize regional meetings on population/family planning; and develop a regional capacity for mobilizing national and international finances for public health care. As it progresses, the subproject will decrease its support for ODECA personnel as the Ministers of Public Health assume increasing responsibility for this component of the project.