Usefulness for surveillance of hypertension prevalence studies in Latin America and the Caribbean: the past 10 years

Peña, Melissa S. Burroughs; Abdala, Carmen Verônica Mendes; Silva, Luis Carlos; Ordúñez, Pedro

doi:10.1590/s1020-49892012000700003

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“…One of these commitments was the urgent establishment of platforms necessary for research and surveillance of NCD risk factors [3••, 4•, 5]. An assessment of the Caribbean’s adherence to these 27 CARICOM summit commitments by the Healthy Caribbean Coalition in 2010 demonstrates modest and very mixed response across the region, with countries such as Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, and Bermuda being the most adherent to the guidelines, and countries such as Anguilla, Haiti, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines being among the least adherent [6•, 7, 8, 12•, 13]. Our more specific assessment of the region’s commitment to surveillance efforts since the 2006 PAHO/CARICOM Report and adoption of the WHO STEPS methodology for risk factor surveillance demonstrates a modest but mixed response across the region.…”

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“…The main objective of this paper is to present a comprehensive assessment of the region’s efforts to establish and implement surveillance for cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors and outcomes since the 2006 report. We expand on previous work done in this area [6•, 7] by capturing surveillance efforts for a broader definition of the Caribbean region and by documenting types and frequency of surveillance over the 10-year period. Finally, we address possible barriers to ongoing NCD surveillance efforts within the Caribbean region.…”

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Population-Based Surveillance for Cardiovascular Disease in the Caribbean: Challenges and Opportunities for Regional Approaches

Oladele

Thompson

Zhang

et al. 2017

Curr Cardiovasc Risk Rep

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Purpose of Review Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), including cardiovascular disease (CVD), are the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the Caribbean. In response to this growing epidemic, regional and global organizations mandated the collection of real-time and accurate population health data to address surveillance health data gaps. The purpose of this review was to assess surveillance activities implemented in the Caribbean region from 2006 to 2016 and the availability of widely disseminated CVD surveillance data. Recent Findings A review of surveillance activities in the region in 2011 showed modest progress in compliance with NCD-related mandates. Our study found that few (12%) countries implemented surveillance surveys yearly and 39% implemented surveys two or more times during 2006–2016. Sixty-four percent of countries included in our review collected data on the six recommended CVD risk factors. Summary Future efforts to generate consistent and timely surveillance data may require collaborative approaches to implement, interpret, and translate surveillance data.

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Population-Based Surveillance for Cardiovascular Disease in the Caribbean: Challenges and Opportunities for Regional Approaches

Oladele

Thompson

Zhang

et al. 2017

Curr Cardiovasc Risk Rep

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“…Baldwin et al [41] opined that "Compared to other developing regions, LAC has the highest percentage of deaths due to NCDs and trails closely behind the group of high-income countries" and Hospedales, et al [5] that the Caribbean region has the most deaths owing to CNCDs, these aptly capture the urgency to address CNCDs epidemic as failure to act will continue to erode quality of life, production, and productivity of peoples in region. The health disparity between the Caribbean region, world, developing nations and industrial world are due to the absence of policies, programmes and highly efficient public health care delivery system [26] [42], which also holds true in Jamaica.…”

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The Epidemic of Non-communicable Diseases in Jamaica: Monsters Awoken from Lifestyle Practices

Bourne¹,

Francis²,

Sharpe-Pryce³

et al. 2014

Int J Med Res

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Of the 57 million deaths that occurred in the world in 2008, 63 percent were due to chronic noncommunicable diseases (CNCDs), and the majority of those who died were women and elderly people. Objectives: To evaluate health indices of those in the retirement aged cohort and working aged cohort; to determine rates of comorbidity for those in the retirement aged and the working aged cohorts; to compute the prevalence rate of specific chronic non-communicable diseases and to calculate death rates for those in retirement aged and the working aged cohorts. Methods: Jamaica Survey of Living Conditions (JSLC) is a national cross-sectional probability survey that is conducted yearly by two governmental agencies in Jamaica. The current sample is 4313 Jamaicans who are either in the working or retirement aged cohorts from 2007 JSLC survey as well as death statistics from 2002 to 2008. Findings: In 2007, the prevalence rate of deaths that occur due to CNCDs is 50.7% (male, 45.2%; female, 59.5%); 12% of those in the working aged population indicate having an illness compared to 43.2% of those in the retirement aged cohort; 23.7% of retirement aged cohorts reported having diabetes compared to 15% of those in the working aged cohort, and those in the retirement aged cohort imply having hypertension 1.6 times more than those in the working aged cohort. The rate of comorbidity is 20.6% (retirement aged cohort, 27.4%; working aged cohort, 15.6%). The prevalence rate of those with CNCDs is 37.6% for those in the retirement aged cohort and 8.2% for those in the working aged cohort. Conclusion: It is imperative that age, gender, area of residence specific and culturally relevant policies be developed in order

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Local Actors’ Frames of the Role of Living Conditions in Shaping Hypertension Risk and Disparities in a Colombian Municipality

2016

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Conditions in the social and physical environment influence population health and risk for CVD, including hypertension. These environmental conditions are influenced by the decisions of public officials, community leaders, and service providers. Examining the frames that local decision makers bring to understanding hypertension can provide important insights into the decisions that they make about strategies for addressing this problem in their jurisdiction. The goal of this study was to examine the frames that local decision makers in Quibdó, Colombia, bring to understanding hypertension risk, and in particular, whether and how they use frames that encompass associations between living conditions and hypertension risk. Data for this qualitative study were collected using a stratified sampling strategy. Semi-structured interviews were conducted in 2012 with 13 local decision makers and analyzed using a framework approach. Participants linked the structural conditions experienced in Quibdó, including displacement, limited economic opportunities, and the infrastructure of the city, to hypertension risk through multiple pathways, including behavioral risk factors for hypertension and physiologic responses to stress. They described the social patterning of these factors across socioeconomic, racial/ethnic, and gender hierarchies. Although several conditions associated with hypertension risk are widely distributed in the city's population, social processes of marginalization and stratification create additional disadvantages for those on the lower rungs of the social hierarchy.

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Usefulness for surveillance of hypertension prevalence studies in Latin America and the Caribbean: the past 10 years

Abstract: The quality and geographic distribution of the published literature on the prevalence of hypertension in Latin America and the Caribbean are inadequate. Research resources and efforts should be directed in the future toward closing this gap.

Cited by 24 publications

References 36 publications

Population-Based Surveillance for Cardiovascular Disease in the Caribbean: Challenges and Opportunities for Regional Approaches

Population-Based Surveillance for Cardiovascular Disease in the Caribbean: Challenges and Opportunities for Regional Approaches

The Epidemic of Non-communicable Diseases in Jamaica: Monsters Awoken from Lifestyle Practices

Local Actors’ Frames of the Role of Living Conditions in Shaping Hypertension Risk and Disparities in a Colombian Municipality

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