(精编)【高血压英文教学精品课件】 Public Health Challenges in the Caribbean.pptVIP

Public Health Challenges in the Caribbean;Disability Adjusted Life Years (Dailys) 2001;CRUDE MORTALITY RATES FOR SELECT DISEASES BY YEAR:;Caribbean Commission on Health and Development (CCHD);Strengthen health systems infrastructure, paying special attention to; improving the management and maintenance of the physical facilities planning in the health sector strengthening surveillance systems for a) communicable diseases b) risk factors for the non-communicable diseases Strengthen public health infrastructure, specifically: ensuring the monitoring of the essential public health functions mandating training to advanced levels in public health by the University of the West Indies ;;;Specific policy recommendations to the Heads of Government Combat tobacco use tax tobacco products ban smoking in public places Target children make physical education compulsory ensure healthy school meals restrict advertising that promotes unhealthy diets Make regulations and standards ensure marketed foods show calorie fat content regulate importation of fats (consult RNM) ;The Report of the CCHD emphasized that the major health /disease problems that the Caribbean would have to face in the immediate future are: Non Communicable Diseases HIV/AIDS Injuries and violence;Causes of death ( Rank order)Bahamas;Pan American Health Organization;Prevalence of Obesity(% of age group);Trends in Diabetes mortality;Atlas of Heart Disease Stroke , WHO 2004;0;Costs (US $ Million) for treatment of all diabetes and hypertension;;Pan American Health Organization;Pan American Health Organization;Pan American Health Organization;With respect to HIV/AIDS “Several recent developments in the Caribbean region (in Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Dominican Republic and Haiti) give cause for guarded optimism -with some HIV prevalence declines evident among pregnant women, signs of inc