Profile on Knowledge Management and Access to Health Information in the Americas
Country Profiles
Introduction
Country/Territory Profiles on Knowledge Management and Information Access will be updated biannually
Last update: February 2022
Regional and Global - Mandates and Documents references
Strategic Plan of the Pan American Health Organization 2020-2025: OCM 21 - Data, information, knowledge, and evidence.
National Strategies, Policies, National Programs and Other Normative Documents
Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications – CIHR
Politique des trois organismes sur le libre accès aux publications – IRSC
Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications
Politique des trois organismes sur le libre accès aux publications
Roadmap for Open Science – Science.gc.ca
Stratégie d’innovation de l’Agence de la santé publique du Canada
Politique de diffusion en libre accès des Fonds de recherche du Québec
The Fonds de recherche du Québec open access policy for the dissemination of research
Scientific Production
SCImago Journal & Country Rank
MedCarib Database
Country/Territory contributes to this sub regional database
LILACS Database
Journals indexed: N/A
In perspective: LILACS Metrics
Contributions to LILACS (2021)
Contributions to LILACS (1985-2021)
Access to Scientific Literature in Health
Research4Life – Hinari Program
Not eligible
Cochrane Library
Free online access through a ‘provision’ or a special scheme
National Platform(s) / Consortium(s)
N/A
Information and Knowledge Networks
PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centers: 35
Collaborating Centers of PAHO/WHO in Knowledge Management: N/A
Health Library Networks
N/A
HIFA (Healthcare Information for All Forum)
HIFA-English – 11,644 members representing 183 countries and territories
HIFA-Spanish – 538 members representing 33 countries and territories
HIFA-Portuguese – 2,207 members representing 35 countries and territories
HIFA-French – 450 members representing 33 countries and territories
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Development Index (IDI)
Based on the International Telecommunication Unit (ITU) 2017 Report
Global Rank 2017
29th position
Americas Rank 2017
2nd position
%
Percentage of households with computer
%
Percentage of households with Internet access
PAHO/WHO Social Media
Health Authority in the Country
PAHO/WHO located in the country
Windows of Knowledge SHAA2030
Monitoring of scientific and technical production related to the Sustainable Health Agenda for the Americas 2030 (SHAA2030)
Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública / Pan American Journal of Public Health (RPSP/PAJPH)
Manuscritos publicados en el 2020 por idioma y también por afiliación de autor (no incluyendo eventuales traducciones a un según idioma).
Papers published in 2020 per language and per author’s affiliation (not including eventual translations into a second language).
- English 46.6%
- Español 36.80%
- Português 16.5%
- Canada (2 papers)
- Total 2020 (163 papers)
Scientific Journals
Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada: Research, Policy and Practice
Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada: Research, Policy and Practice (the HPCDP Journal) is a bilingual, peer-reviewed scientific journal of the Public Health Agency of Canada’s Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention Branch.
Canada Communicable Disease Report (CCDR)
The Canada Communicable Disease Report is a bilingual, open-access, peer-reviewed journal on the prevention and control of emerging and persistent infectious diseases.
IFLA - Library Map of the World /Mapa Mundial de Bibliotecas
Global data / Dados globales
Worldwide totals: 2.6M
North America: 129,129
Latin America & Caribbean: 146,212
Country Metrics - Métricas País
Libraries: 18,602
National Library: 4
Libraries with access to Internet: N/A