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News Releases Caribbean Wellness Day Prof. Trevor Hassell Barbados Heart and Stroke Foundation

Healthy Caribbean 2008  Wellness Revolution Conference

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This campaign against CNCDs continues in  Barbados at the Healthy Caribbean 2008 Conference, October 16 – 19.  Barbadian cardiologist, Prof. Trevor Hassell and Prof. Henry Fraser, Dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences, Cave Hill Campus, are leading the Conference’s organising team. 

According to Prof. Hassell the Conference, which is being facilitated by The Pan American Health Organisation, the InterAmerican Heart Foundation, the Barbados Ministry of Health CNCD Commission and the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Barbados, will be critical to crafting the Caribbean’s collaborative response to combating the current epidemic.

“The conference brings together civil society from across the region to build a united strategy going forward.  Its aim is to mobilise a wide cross section of the Caribbean community, including civil society, health NGOs, educators, government, trade unionists, faith based organisations and business, to address
in a highly participatory and interactive workshop format, these most burdensome, yet preventable lifestyle diseases.”  The underlying causes of CNCDs are physical inactivity, poor diet and tobacco use, as well as lack of treatment and control of diabetes, dyslipideamias, hypertension and other conditions, which contribute to heart disease, stroke, lung disease and many cancers.

International and regional leaders in the field of chronic disease prevention and treatment will attend the conference and assist in the attaining of conference objectives. The principal outcomes from the
conference will include a preliminary Caribbean Civil Society plan to tackle chronic diseases over the next 2 – 5 years, with specific attention aimed at improved identification and treatment of diabetes, dyslipideamias and hypertension throughout the Caribbean.

 Highlights of the conference will include the delivery of the InterAmerican Heart Foundation Science of Peace Lecture and the presentation of the Science of Peace Award to Sir George Alleyne, Chancellor of
the University of the West Indies, and the presentation of the 5th InterAmerican Journalism Contest Awards on Tobacco Control.
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Pamala P. Proverbs, Ph.D., MBA, APR, ABC is the managing director of PRMR Inc. She is a recent instructor and graduate of the College of Journalism and Communications, University of Florida. A career public relations practitioner of over twenty years, she approaches her scholarship pragmatically. Her research interests include corporate social responsibility, crisis communications and issues management particularly related to gender and development. In her role at PRMR Inc. she has written several strategic communications and crisis management plans for companies in a number of sectors including the private, public, multi-lateral and non-governmental sectors.