CARICOM pledges stronger action on NCDs Good news for the NCD response in the Caribbean! The communiqué issued at the thirty-seventh CARICOM Heads of Government Conference (July 4-6) places chronic diseases firmly on the leaders’ agenda in the run-up to the 10th anniversary of the Port of Spain Declaration on NCDs. Noting that progress on […]
Health in All Polices: Suriname is trailblazing A Health in All Policies approach seeks to improve overall health and development by integrating health issues into decision-making across all sectors. This collaborative idea chimes well with the oft-repeated mantra that the response to non-communicable diseases has to be truly multisectoral, involving all-of-society, if it is to […]
We need to do much more on childhood obesity to tackle NCDs, says top expert Childhood obesity is a growing problem across the Caribbean and needs to be addressed if the epidemic of non-communicable diseases is to be brought under control, argued Dr Alafia Samuels, Director of the Chronic Disease Research Centre (CDRC) in a […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that adults should all be doing at least 150 minutes a week of “moderate-intensity” physical activity. How many of us actually achieve this target? We visited a park in the heart of Port of Spain, Trinidad, and talked to a range of men and women. Most interviewees (in our […]
Uniting to Stop the Epidemic of NCDs – Time to Accelerate Action Presentations from the Implementation Workshop can be downloaded below: Context, overview and aims of the workshop view/download National and Regional Trends in NCD Mortality, Morbidity and Risk Factors view/download National Policy Responses to NCDs and Lessons Learned view/download Regional and International Policy Responses and […]
Do you want to know how we’re doing as a region in the challenge to NCDs? What’s going well? Where could we improve? How exactly do we speed up action? These ‘evidence briefs’, emerging from the Port of Spain Declaration evaluation answer these questions. The document takes each of the six research objectives of the […]
During the recent ‘Uniting to Stop the Epidemic of NCDs – Time to Accelerate Action’ Implementation Workshop in Trinidad and Tobago some of the speakers and attendees were asked to give their thoughts on the workshop and their views on NCDs and the way forward. To select a specific video click on the […]
Uniting to Stop the Epidemic of NCDs – Time to Accelerate Action
Uniting to Stop the Epidemic of NCDs – Time to Accelerate Action Action Plan for NCDs emerges from Implementation Workshop The regional response to the grave threat posed by non-communicable diseases (NCDs) must be intensified immediately if the health, wellbeing and development gains of Caribbean people are to be protected. This was the key message […]
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