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[Belmopan]; Belize. Ministry of Health; 2018. 8 p. graf.
Não convencional em Inglês | MedCarib | ID: biblio-908794

RESUMO

This communicable diseases digest offers a summary of incidence rates for the Ministry of Health's epidemiological week 16. It draws on weekly data retrieved through the Belize Health Information System (BHIS) which seeks to improve individual health outcomes and public health performance as well as to optimize resource utilization. Using graphics, national, seasonal and weekly trends are compared for the following: Acute Respiratory Infections (ARIs), a leading cause of death among children under the age of five; Severe Acute Respiratory Infections (SARIs), which have the potential for large scale epidemics; Gastrointestinal Diseases; Vector Borne Diseases; Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs); and Other Communicable Diseases/Outbreaks/Public Health related incidents.


Assuntos
Humanos , Masculino , Feminino , Recém-Nascido , Lactente , Pré-Escolar , Criança , Belize/epidemiologia , Doenças Transmissíveis/epidemiologia , Vírus Chikungunya , Dengue/epidemiologia , Gastroenteropatias/epidemiologia , Incidência , Insetos Vetores , Saúde Pública/estatística & dados numéricos , Infecções Sexualmente Transmissíveis/epidemiologia , Zika virus
2.
[Belmopan]; Belize. Ministry of Health; 2018. 8 p. graf.
Não convencional em Inglês | MedCarib | ID: biblio-908812

RESUMO

This communicable diseases digest offers a summary of incidence rates for the Ministry of Health's epidemiological week 17. It draws on weekly data retrieved through the Belize Health Information System (BHIS) which seeks to improve individual health outcomes and public health performance as well as to optimize resource utilization. Using graphics, national, seasonal and weekly trends are compared for the following: Acute Respiratory Infections (ARIs), a leading cause of death among children under the age of five; Severe Acute Respiratory Infections (SARIs), which have the potential for large scale epidemics; Gastrointestinal Diseases; Vector Borne Diseases; Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs); and Other Communicable Diseases/Outbreaks/Public Health related incidents.


Assuntos
Humanos , Masculino , Feminino , Recém-Nascido , Lactente , Pré-Escolar , Criança , Belize/epidemiologia , Doenças Transmissíveis/epidemiologia , Incidência , Vírus Chikungunya , Dengue/epidemiologia , Gastroenteropatias/epidemiologia , Insetos Vetores , Saúde Pública/estatística & dados numéricos , Infecções Sexualmente Transmissíveis/epidemiologia , Zika virus
3.
[Belmopan]; Belize. Ministry of Health; 2018. 8 p. graf.
Não convencional em Inglês | MedCarib | ID: biblio-908857

RESUMO

This communicable diseases digest offers a summary of incidence rates for the Ministry of Health's epidemiological week 19. It draws on weekly data retrieved through the Belize Health Information System (BHIS) which seeks to improve individual health outcomes and public health performance as well as to optimize resource utilization. Using graphics, national, seasonal and weekly trends are compared for the following: Acute Respiratory Infections (ARIs), a leading cause of death among children under the age of five; Severe Acute Respiratory Infections (SARIs), which have the potential for large scale epidemics; Gastrointestinal Diseases; Vector Borne Diseases; Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs); and other Communicable Diseases/Outbreaks/Public Health related incidents.


Assuntos
Humanos , Masculino , Feminino , Recém-Nascido , Lactente , Pré-Escolar , Criança , Belize/epidemiologia , Doenças Transmissíveis/epidemiologia , Incidência , Vírus Chikungunya , Dengue/epidemiologia , Gastroenteropatias/epidemiologia , Insetos Vetores , Saúde Pública/estatística & dados numéricos , Infecções Sexualmente Transmissíveis/epidemiologia , Zika virus
4.
[Belmopan]; Belize. Ministry of Health; 2018. 8 p. graf.
Não convencional em Inglês | MedCarib | ID: biblio-908944

RESUMO

This communicable diseases digest offers a summary of incidence rates for the Ministry of Health's epidemiological week 20. It draws on weekly data retrieved through the Belize Health Information System (BHIS) which seeks to improve individual health outcomes and public health performance as well as to optimize resource utilization. Using graphics, national, seasonal and weekly trends are compared for the following: Acute Respiratory Infections (ARIs), a leading cause of death among children under the age of five; Severe Acute Respiratory Infections (SARIs), which have the potential for large scale epidemics; Gastrointestinal Diseases; Vector Borne Diseases; Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs); and other Communicable Diseases/Outbreaks/Public Health related incidents.


Assuntos
Humanos , Masculino , Feminino , Recém-Nascido , Lactente , Pré-Escolar , Criança , Belize/epidemiologia , Doenças Transmissíveis/epidemiologia , Incidência , Vírus Chikungunya , Dengue/epidemiologia , Gastroenteropatias/epidemiologia , Insetos Vetores , Saúde Pública/estatística & dados numéricos , Infecções Sexualmente Transmissíveis/epidemiologia , Zika virus
5.
Kingston; Ministry of Health; [2017]. 122 p. tables, charts.(Ministry of Health Annual Report 2016-2017: Highlights of key initiatives).
Monografia em Inglês | MedCarib | ID: biblio-1412934

RESUMO

This document highlights the major achievement of the Ministry of Health for the period 2016-2017. Contains information about compassionate care, the strengthening of the health system , treatment of non-communicable diseases, combating communicable diseases, protecting the health of mothers and children, rehabilitation and new investment in critical health infrastructure.


Assuntos
Atenção à Saúde , Financiamento da Assistência à Saúde , Doenças Transmissíveis , Doenças não Transmissíveis
6.
Port of Spain; Caribbean Epidemiology Centre; 3 ed; June 2011. vi,25 p.
Monografia em Inglês | MedCarib | ID: med-17905

RESUMO

All CAREC member countries must have functioning surveillance systems for communicable and noncommunicable diseases and deaths. Each country must also have guidelines approved and endorsed by relevant authorities in the Ministry of Health to support these systems. This regional policy guidelines document is: i) a guide for the development or strengthening of national surveillance guidelines for communicable and non-communicable diseases and deaths; ii) intended to be used as an advocacy tool for the development of national and regional surveillance systems for communicable and non-communicable diseases and deaths; iii) a description of the regional surveillance systems for communicable and non-communicable diseases and deaths.


Assuntos
Vigilância Sanitária , Monitoramento Epidemiológico , Vigilância da População , Caribbean Public Health Agency , Doenças Transmissíveis
7.
Ecology ; 90(11): 3168-3179, 2009. graf
Artigo em Inglês | MedCarib | ID: med-17673

RESUMO

Most arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) show distinct serological subtypes or evolutionary lineages, with the evolution of different strains often assumed to reflect differences in ecological selection pressures. Buggy Creek virus (BCRV) is an unusual RNA virus (Togaviridae, Alphavirus) that is associated primarily with a cimicid swallow bug (Oeciacus vicarius) as its vector and the Cliff Swallow (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota) and the introduced House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) as its amplifying hosts. There are two sympatric lineages of BCRV (lineages A and B) that differ from each other by > 6% at the nucleotide level. Analysis of 385 BCRV isolates all collected from bug vectors at a study site in southwestern Nebraska, USA, showed that the lineages differed in their peak times of seasonal occurrence within a summer. Lineage A was more likely to be found at recently established colonies, at those in culverts (rather than on highway bridges), and at those with invasive House Sparrows, and in bugs on the outsides of nests. Genetic diversity of lineage A increased with bird colony size and at sites with House Sparrows, while that of lineage B decreased with colony size and was unaffected by House Sparrows. Lineage A was more cytopathic on mammalian cells than was lineage B. These two lineages have apparently diverged in their transmission dynamics, with lineage A possibly more dependent on birds and lineage B perhaps more a bug virus. The long-standing association between Cliff Swallows and BCRV may have selected for immunological resistance to the virus by swallows and thus promoted the evolution of the more bug-adapted lineage B. In contrast, the recent arrival of the introduced House Sparrow and its high competence as a BCRV amplifying host may be favoring the more bird-dependent lineage A.


Assuntos
Animais , Humanos , Alphavirus , Interações Hospedeiro-Parasita , Doenças Transmissíveis , Pardais
8.
West Indian veterinary journal ; 8(2): 68-71, December 2008. tab
Artigo em Inglês | MedCarib | ID: med-17824

RESUMO

Hantavirus is an emerging zoonotic virus with potential for significant human disease and mortality. Rodents are the natural reservoir for the virus. This study reports the seroprevalence of hantavirus in brown rats (Rattus norvigicus) in Grenada. Serum samples from 198 brown rats were tested for the immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibody to hantavirus using an enzyme-linked immunosorbant assay (ELISA). A seroprevalence rate of 29.3% was found. This is the first report of hantavirus exposure in any species on the island of Grenada and documents the brown rat as a reservoir host on the island.


Assuntos
Ratos , Animais , Humanos , Orthohantavírus , Infecções por Hantavirus , Ratos , Ensaio de Imunoadsorção Enzimática , Granada , Sorologia , Doenças Transmissíveis , Notificação de Doenças
9.
West Indian veterinary journal ; 8(2): 68-71, December 2008. tab
Artigo em Inglês | MedCarib | ID: med-18152

RESUMO

Hantavirus is an emerging zoonotic virus with potential for significant human disease and mortality. Rodents are the natural reservoir for the virus. This study reports the seroprevalence of hantavirus in brown rats (Rattus norvigicus) in Grenada. Serum samples from 198 brown rats were tested for the immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibody to hantavirus using an enzyme-linked immunosorbant assay (ELISA). A seroprevalence rate of 29.3% was found. This is the first report of hantavirus exposure in any species on the island of Grenada and documents the brown rat as a reservoir host on the island.


Assuntos
Ratos , Animais , Humanos , Orthohantavírus , Infecções por Hantavirus , Ratos , Ensaio de Imunoadsorção Enzimática , Granada , Sorologia , Doenças Transmissíveis , Notificação de Doenças
10.
Port of Spain; CAREC; 2003. 12-16 p. tab.
Monografia em Inglês | MedCarib | ID: med-16679
12.
West Indian med. j ; 50(Suppl 4): 15-22, Sept. 2001.
Artigo em Inglês | MedCarib | ID: med-294

RESUMO

Health trends in Jamaica have improved considerably during the past century. Life expectancy at birth increased from 38 years in 1900 to 72 years in 2000. The crude death and infant mortality rates declined significantly from 35.7 and 174.3 deaths to 5.1 and 24.4 deaths, respectively in the same period. The seven leading causes of death in 1945 were infectious diseases while the main causes of mortality and morbidity are now the chronic non-communicable lifestyles diseases, and injuries. Over the past few decades, considerable progress has been made in controlling vaccine preventable diseases and eliminating poliomyelitis and measles. Rates of infectious syphilis and gonorrhoea have declined significantly in recent years although chlamydia and herpes are common and the HIV/AIDS epidemic is a growing concern. Over the past few decades health expenditure has grown more rapidly in the private health sector than in the public health sector although services in the public sector are provided at significantly lower cost. Jamaica provides good health at low cost. However, more funds are needed to support the public health system. The current health reform process needs to be informed by a better understanding of the factors that have contributed to Jamaica's achievements in health and needs a clear health focus. The Ministry of Health has articulated a vision of health for the 21st century that requires a significant reorientation of health staff as well as empowering people to take responsibility for adopting healthy lifestyles. (AU)


Assuntos
Humanos , História do Século XX , Saúde Pública/tendências , Previsões , Jamaica/epidemiologia , Mortalidade/tendências , Doenças Transmissíveis/história , Morbidade/tendências , Condições Sociais/economia , Condições Sociais/tendências , Síndrome de Imunodeficiência Adquirida/epidemiologia , Doenças Transmissíveis/epidemiologia , Reforma dos Serviços de Saúde/tendências , Indicadores Básicos de Saúde
15.
[Belmopan]; Belize. Ministry of Health; [2000]. 80 p. ilus, tab, graf.
Não convencional em Inglês | MedCarib | ID: biblio-907072

RESUMO

The report is an effort by the Ministry of Health to document the progress of the health situation and the performance of the health care system in Belize up to the year 1999. The data shows for the past four years Belize is experiencing a transition from communicable to non-communicable diseases. For the third consecutive year, Road Traffic Accidents ranked number one among the ten leading causes of mortality, followed by hypertension, Cerebrovascular Accidents and Diabetes. In 1999, NCD 's contributed to 77.8% of all deaths in the country. The report focuses on general Morbidity and Mortality figures; the response of the Health Systems; National Health Information and Surveillance System; Health Sector Reform; the response to Hurricane Keith; National Achievement of the Ministry of Health; and District Health services. With regards to the communicable diseases and vector control, data is also provided on the programs aimed at reducing malaria and dengue; the duties and activities of the vector control personnel; and the general objectives of the Vector Control program.


Assuntos
Humanos , Masculino , Feminino , Doenças Transmissíveis , Dengue/prevenção & controle , Atenção à Saúde , Malária/prevenção & controle , Controle de Vetores de Doenças , Belize/epidemiologia , Planejamento em Desastres , Reforma dos Serviços de Saúde , Serviços de Saúde , Programas Nacionais de Saúde
16.
Rev. panam. salud publica ; 6(6): 440-443, Dec. 1999.
Artigo em Espanhol | MedCarib | ID: med-16924

RESUMO

We look at the epidemiology of the most common infectious diseases that in 1998 affected the countries of Central America most seriously damaged by Hurricane Mitch: Belice, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. Incidence and mortality figures and fatality rates for cholera, dengue, malaria, and leptospirosis, before and after the hurricane, come from data provided by each country's ministry of Health (AU)


Assuntos
Humanos , América , Doenças Transmissíveis/complicações , Doenças Transmissíveis/epidemiologia , Mortalidade/estatística & dados numéricos , Cólera/epidemiologia , Dengue/epidemiologia , Malária/epidemiologia , Leptospirose/epidemiologia
17.
anon.
Epi News ; 15(2): 1, Nov. 1999.
Artigo em Inglês | MedCarib | ID: med-848
18.
West Indian med. j ; 48(3): 106-9, Sept. 1999. tab
Artigo em Inglês | MedCarib | ID: med-1506

RESUMO

Childhood mortality and morbidity patterns in the English-speaking Caribbean have changed significantly over the past 40 years. Acute respiratory illness, physical injury and conditions originating in the perinatal period have replaced malnutrition, gastroenteritis and other infectious diseases as major causes of illness and death in Caribbean children. Although population growth has slowed down, about one-third of the population of the English-speaking Caribbean remains under the age of 15 years. Infant mortality rates have also fallen but the major contributor to this decline has been a reduction in post-neonatal deaths. The decrease in mortality and morbidity from infectious diseases has led to a prominence of disorders originating in the perinatal period, psychosocial problems and chronic childhood disorders. Adverse economic conditions are held culpable for the re-emergence of protein energy malnutrition (PEM) and pulmonary tubercolosis in some territories. There is an urgent need to focus attention on the areas of perinatal and adolescent health, childhood disability, accidental and non-accidental injury, sexual abuse and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Immunization programmes also require continuing support and expansion. These tasks cannot be accomplished without meaningful long term investment of financial and human resources in the health and educational services of the region (AU)


Assuntos
Lactente , Criança , Adolescente , Humanos , Pré-Escolar , Mortalidade Infantil/tendências , Atenção à Saúde/tendências , Pediatria/tendências , Serviços de Saúde da Criança , Região do Caribe , Fatores Socioeconômicos , Doenças Transmissíveis/mortalidade , Morbidade/tendências
19.
Anon.
Epi News ; 15(1): 22-3, Mar. 1999. tab
Artigo em Inglês | MedCarib | ID: med-524
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