Policy initiatives, culture and the prevention and control of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in the Caribbean

Ethnicity and Health

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 631-649

  Samuels, T Alafia ^a   Guell, Cornelia ^a   Legetic, Branka ^b   Unwin, Nigel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic non communicable diseases; Culture; Policy; Review; The Caribbean

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; DISEASE PREVALENCE; HEALTH POLICY; LITERATURE REVIEW; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; POLICY MAKING; STATE ROLE;

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CENTRAL AMERICA; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LEGAL ASPECT; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CARIBBEAN REGION; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PREVALENCE; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA;

EID: 84876143786     PISSN: 13557858     EISSN: 14653419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13557858.2012.752072     Document Type: Article

References (55)

1. Alleyne, G. and Samuels, T.A., 2010. Creating global policy for prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases. Resources for the Future: Weekly Policy Commentary [online]. Available from: www.rff.org/Publications/WPC/ Pages/Creating-Global-Policy-for-Preventionand- Control-of-Noncommunicable- Diseases.aspx [Accessed 5 March 2012].
2. Alwan, A., 2010. Raising the priority accorded to NCDs in development work at global and national levels - a WHO briefing on NCDs. New York: United Nations.
3. Barriteau, E., 2003. Confronting power, theorizing gender: interdisciplinary perspectives in the Caribbean. Kingston: The University of the West Indies Press.
4. Barrow, C., 1996. Family in the Caribbean: themes and perspectives. Kingston: Ian Randle.
5. Beckles, H. and Shepherd, V.A., 2006. Freedoms won: Caribbean emancipations, ethnicities and nationhood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
6. Bobb, A., et al., 2008. The impact of the chronic disease assistance plan (CDAP) on the control of type 2 diabetes in Trinidad. Diabetes research and clinical practice, 80 (3), 360-364.
7. Brehaut, J. and Juzwishin, D., 2005. The use of research evidence in policy development. Alberta: Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research.
8. Brenzel, L., Henry-Lee, A., and Le Frank, E., 2001. Gender and equity in access to health care in Jamaica and Barbados. Washington, DC: Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica for Pan American Health Organisation.
9. Brownson, R.C., Chriqui, J.F., and Stamatakis, K.A., 2009. Understanding evidence-based public health policy. American Journal of Public Health, 99 (9), 1576-1583.
10. Burstein, P., 2003. The impact of public opinion on public policy: a review and an agenda. Political Research Quarterly, 56 (1), 29-40.
11. Burton, R., 2009. Globalisation and cultural identity in Caribbean society: the Jamaican case. Caribbean Journal of Philosophy, 1 (1), 1-18.
12. CAREC, 2010a. BVI NCD STEPS risk factor survey results. Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago: CAREC Caribbean Epidemiology Centre Surveillance Reports.
13. CAREC, 2010b. St Kitts NCD STEPS risk factor survey results. Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago: CAREC Caribbean Epidemiology Centre Surveillance Reports.
14. CAREC, 2011. Dominica NCD STEPS risk factor survey results. Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago: CAREC Caribbean Epidemiology Centre Surveillance Reports.
15. CAREC, in press. NCD STEPS risk factor survey results. Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago: CAREC Caribbean Epidemiology Centre Surveillance Reports.
16. CARICOM, 2007a. Declaration of Port-of-Spain: uniting to stop the epidemic of chronic noncommunicable diseases. Georgetown, Guyana: Caribbean Community Secretariat.
17. CARICOM, 2007b. Stemming the tide of non-communicable diseases in the Caribbean.Working document for summit of CARICOM heads of government on chronic non-communicable diseases. Georgetown, Guyana: Caribbean Community Secretariat.
18. CARICOM, 2009. National Census Report 2001, Jamaica. Georgetown, Guyana: CARICOM.
19. CARICOM, n.d. The Caribbean Community [online]. Available from: http://www.caricom.org/jsp/community/community-index.jsp?menu-community [Accessed 2 August 2012].
20. CDC, n.d. Global school-based student health survey [online]. Centre for Disease control and Prevention. Available from: http://www.cdc.gov/gshs/ countries/americas/index.htm [Accessed 5 March 2012].
21. Cooper, R.S., Kennelly, J.F., and Orduñez-Garcia, P., 2006. Health in Cuba. International Journal of Epidemiology, 35 (4), 817-824.
22. Eckersley, R.M., 2007. Culture. In: S. Galea, ed. Macrosocial determinants of population health. New York: Springer, 193-209.
23. Franklin Peroune, R., 2011. Measuring exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke (SHS) in five Caribbean countries: is healthy public policy - smoke free legislation a determining factor? Unpublished MPH thesis. Faculty of Medical Sciences, Department of Paraclinical Sciences, Public Health and Primary Health Care Unit, University of the West Indies.
24. Gough, B. and Robertson, S., 2009. Men, masculinities and health: critical perspectives. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
25. Hambleton, I.R., et al., 2009. All-cause mortality after diabetes-related amputation in Barbados. Diabetes Care, 32 (2), 306-307.
26. Hennis, A.J.M., et al., 2004. Explanations for the high risk of diabetes-related amputation in a Caribbean population of Black African Descent and potential for prevention. Diabetes Care, 27 (11), 2636-2641.
27. Henry, F., 2004. The obesity epidemic - a major threat to Caribbean development: the case for public policies. Caianus, 37 (1), 2-21.
28. Hospedales, C.J., et al., 2011. Raising the priority of chronic noncommunicable diseases in the Caribbean. Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 30, 393-400.
29. Irons, B., et al., 1999. The immunisation programme in the Caribbean. Caribb Health, 2 (3), 9-11.
30. Kirton, J., Guebert, J., and Samuels, T.A. 2011. Controlling NCDs through summitry: the CARICOMcase study [online]. Paper comissioned by the Pan Amercian Health Organization/World Health Organization. Available from: http://www.ghdp.utoronto.ca/pubs/caricom-casestudy.pdf [Accessed 4 December 2012].
31. Miller, G., Maude, G., and Beckles, G., 1996. Incidence of hypertension and non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus and associated risk factors in a rapidly developing Caribbean community: the St James survey, Trinidad. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 50 (5), 497-504.
32. Montenegro, R.A. and Stephens, C., 2006. Indigenous health in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Lancet, 367 (9525), 1859-1869.
33. Ortiz, F., 1995. Cuban counterpoint: tobacco and sugar. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
34. PAHO, 2008. Basic Health Indicators. Washington, DC: PAHO/WHO.
35. PAHO, 2012. Basic Health Indicators in the Americas. Washington, DC: PAHO/WHO.
36. Pan American Health Organization, 2007. Health in the Americas. Washington, DC: PAHO.
37. Pan American Health Organization, 2010. Health information and analysis project: regional core health data initiative. Washington, DC: PAHO.
38. Pyne, H., Claeson, M., and Correia, M., 2002. Gender dimensions of alcohol consumption and alcohol-related problems in Latin America and the Caribbean. Washington: World Bank.
39. Quinlan, R., 2006. Gender and risk in a Matrifocal Caribbean Community: a view from behavioral ecology. American Anthropologist, 108 (3), 464-470.
40. Rehm, J., Chisholm, D., Room, R., and Lopez, A.D., 2006. Alcohol. In: D.T. Jamison, A.R. Measham, G. Alleyne, et al., eds. Disease control priorities in developing countries. New York: Oxford University Press, 887-906.
41. Rios, A. 2012. Cubans see their ration cards get thinner and thinner [online]. Latin American Herald Tribune. Available from: http://www.laht.com/ article.asp?ArticleId-364816& CategoryId-14510 [Accessed 2 August 2012].
42. Samuels, T.A. and Hospedales, C.J., 2011. From Port-of-Spain summit to United Nations High Level Meeting CARICOM and the global non-communicable disease agenda. West Indian Medical Journal, 60 (4), 387-391.
43. Spiegel, J.M. and Yassi, A., 2004. Lessons from the margins of globalization: appreciating the Cuban health paradox. Journal of Public Health Policy, 25 (1), 85-110.
44. The Global Youth Tobacco Survey Collaborative Group, (2002). Tobacco use among youth: a cross country comparison. Tobacco Control, 11 (3), 252-270.
45. UNESCO, 1996. Report on education in the Caribbean: 1996 meeting of the ministers of education in Latin America and the Caribbean. Santiago: Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean UNESCO.
46. UNESCO, 2003/4. Gender and education for all: the leap of equality. EFA Global Monitoring Report. Paris: UNESCO.
47. United Nations, 2010. The World's Women 2010: trends and statistics. New York: UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
48. Unwin, N., et al., 2010. A policy effectiveness-feasibility loop? Promoting the use of evidence to support the development of healthy public policy. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 64 (Suppl. 1), A20-A21.
49. Varona, P., et al., 2009. Smoking-attributable mortality in cuba. MEDICC Review, 11 (3), 43-47.
50. Wilks, R., et al., 2007/8. Jamaica Health and Lifestyle Survey 2007-8. University of the West Indies, Mona: Epidemiology Research Unit, Tropical Medicine Research Institute.
51. World Bank, 2002. Caribbean economic overview: macroeconomic volatility, household vulnerability, and institutional and policy responses. Caribbean Group for Cooperation in Economic Development (World Bank). Available from: http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2002/09/ 06/000094946-02082404015643/Rendered/PDF/multi0page.pdf [Accessed 4 December 2012].
52. World Health Organization, 2008. 2008-2013 action plan for the global strategy of the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases. Geneva: WHO.
53. World Health Organization, 2009. WHO Report on the global tobacco epidemic: implementing smoke-free environments. Geneva: WHO.
54. World Health Organization, 2011. Prioritized Research Agenda for prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases. Geneva: WHO.
55. World Health Organization, 2012. Global data base on Body Mass Index. Geneva: WHO.