Diabetes, Hypertension, Arthritis and other Chronic Non-communicable Diseases in an English-Speaking Caribbean Nation: A Health Perspective

Bourne, Paul Andrew

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“…Projections suggest that per-sons 60 years and older would constitute 24% (approximately 184 million persons) of the population of Latin America and the Caribbean by 2050 (13). Many of these persons run the risk of polypharmacy based on the projected increase in the prevalence and incidence of chronic non-communicable diseases, with nutritional implications (14). It is imperative that we explore the associations and mechanisms of polypharmacy and disease burden on the risk of malnutrition with a view to developing interventions that can prevent and mitigate their effects on the quality of life in a cost-benefit manner.…”

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Polypharmacy and the risk of Malnutrition among Independently-living Elderly Persons in Trinidad

Ramgoolie

Nichols

2015

West Indian Med J

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Polypharmacy and the risk of Malnutrition among Independently-living Elderly Persons in Trinidad

Ramgoolie

Nichols

2015

West Indian Med J

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Engaging Church Leaders in a Health Needs Assessment Process to Design a Multilevel Health Promotion Intervention in Low-resource Rural Jamaican Faith Communities

Berkley‐Patton

Thompson

Lister

et al. 2020

Journal of Participatory Research Methods

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Diabetes and cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are major Jamaican public health issues. Churches may be untapped settings to extend reach and impact of diabetes and CVD prevention programs, particularly in low-resourced, rural Jamaican areas. We engaged the Jamaican Lifestyles Health Ministry Association Community Action Board in designing and conducting a health needs assessment (HNA) process to identify health conditions, priority health concerns, and potentially relevant intervention strategies to address concerns with their church-community members in rural areas. Findings from the HNA process (survey and community forum) were used by faith leaders to guide the design of a culturally-religiously tailored, multilevel diabetes/CVD risk reduction intervention, Project Faith Influencing Transformation (FIT)-Jamaica (JA). Use of HNA and collaborative intervention design processes were key to successfully completing the design of a faith-based health promotion intervention in JA churches in a timely manner. introduction Jamaica (JA) is a low-to-middle income Caribbean country that is experiencing increasing rates of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) (e.g., diabetes, heart disease, stroke

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Mathematical Mortality Models and Modeling Urbanization?s Influence on Deaths in Jamaica

Bourne¹

2015

Arts Social Sci J

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Background: Inspite of the body of knowledge which exists on mortality, the literature is void of a study on 'Time-specific Mortality'.Objectives: This study aims to evaluate 'Time-specific Mortality' in Jamaica, the role of urbanization, and sexratio on mortality. Materials and method:The data were derived from various Jamaica Government Publications including The Economic and Social Survey of Jamaica; 2011 Census of Population and Housing report for Jamaica and the Demographic Statistics, and the Statistical Department of the Jamaica Constabulary Force. Data were recorded, stored and retrived using the Statistical Packages for the Social Sciences for Windows, Version 21.0, as well as Microsoft Excel. The level of significance that is used to determine statistical significance is less than 5% (0.05). Results:The annual probability of mortality in Jamaica, for the studied period is 0.005 ≤ px ≤ 0.008. The probability of dying in Kingston and Saint Andrew is generally greater than that of Jamaica, which is equally the case in Saint James (i.e., 0.005 ≤ px ≤ 0.008), Manchester (i.e., 0.006 ≤ px ≤ 0.008), with the probability of dying being the least in Hanover (0.003 ≤ px ≤ 0.005). The majority of deaths occurred in January (9.8%), with the least being in December (7.8%). Although on average the least number of deaths occurred in December 2011 (7.8%), 11% of Jamaicans died in December compared to 8% in Feburary and 9% in August as well as April-to-June. Urbanization and the sex-ratio explain 88% of the variability in mortality in Jamaica, with urbanization explaining 79.9% of the variability and the sex-ratio contributing the remaining 8.1%. Conclusion:The results presented in this study speaks to the dominance of urbanization in the mortality discourse, urbanization's role in reducing life expectancy and that the time as well as the sex-ratio, which offers some insights into changes in mortality. These findings offer policy makers critical information that can be used to develop intervention programmes as well as provide scholars with new insights into the mortality discourse.Citation: Bourne PA, Hudson-Davis A, Sharpe-Pryce C, Clarke J, Solan I, et al. (2015) Mathematical Mortality Models and Modeling Urbanization's Influence on Deaths in Jamaica. Arts Social Sci J 6: 102. doi:10.4172/2151-6200.1000102 Page 2 of 9Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1000102 Arts Social Sci J ISSN: 2151-6200 ASSJ an open access journal and the sex-ratio, 2) urbanization has a greater influence on mortality than the sex-ratio, 3) a direct correlation exists between urbanization and the sex-ratio (using data for 2011), 4) the probability of death for age is an exponential function, 5) the probability of death for age is the same slope over the lifecourse, and 6) the probability of death is the same slope over the lifecourse of the population.

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Diabetes, Hypertension, Arthritis and other Chronic Non-communicable Diseases in an English-Speaking Caribbean Nation: A Health Perspective

Cited by 6 publications

References 36 publications

Polypharmacy and the risk of Malnutrition among Independently-living Elderly Persons in Trinidad

Polypharmacy and the risk of Malnutrition among Independently-living Elderly Persons in Trinidad

Engaging Church Leaders in a Health Needs Assessment Process to Design a Multilevel Health Promotion Intervention in Low-resource Rural Jamaican Faith Communities

Mathematical Mortality Models and Modeling Urbanization?s Influence on Deaths in Jamaica

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