COUNTDOWN TO THE NCD CHILD CONFERENCE
WE HOPE TO SEE YOU ALL THERE!
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Recognizing the need for more research, knowledge sharing, innovation and partnership in public health in the Caribbean region, the Public eHealth, Innovation and Equity (eSAC) project will host a 3-part Caribbean Webinar Series in the month of March 2014.
Topics will include:
March 4: Public eHealth: ICT, Public Health and Equity (Media-Focused)
March 11: Public eHealth: in Action
March 18: Public eHealth: How to (Policy and Implementation)
THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO ALL! Please confirm your interest in participating and the session(s) of interest to you by Friday, February 28, 2014 by emailing Ms Soroya Julian, eSAC Young Professional/PAHO Consultant soroyajulian@gmail.com. Please include your full name, job title, organization and contact details.
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Voice of Youth Maps
The Voices of Youth Maps platform and suite of tools enables community organizations to train young people to collect actionable data on issues affecting their communities. Aggregated reports serve as a powerful tool to promote interventions by the community and its leaders to achieve desired changes.Young people are introduced to the concept of digital mapping through a set of workshops and activities focusing on digital engagement, youth empowerment and community advocacy. A featured tool from Voices of Youth Maps is UNICEF-GIS – a youth-friendly mobile mapping application that produces web maps and visual reports on youth-related issues. |
Notable Quotes
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Frederick Douglass
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Young Health Programme: Brazil
The Young Health Programme Brazil is glad to announce its participation at the NCD Child Conference 2014. It will be an excellent opportunity to share the programme experience in youth engagement and local multisectoral (health and education) action to address key health issues for adolescent boys and girls with a focus in sexual and reproductive health and the prevention of common risk behaviours associated with the development of NCDs in later life. READ MORE HERE. |
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NCD Child wants to hear the Voices of Youth!
At NCD Child, we make sure governments and leaders around the world think about children and young people when they make decisions about health. NCDs affect the lives of kids and young people all over the world, they for adults.
We are asking young people around the world to create video messages or photo blogs to be shared online and shown to world leaders at the second NCD Child International Conference, 20‐21 March 2014 in Port‐of‐Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Let your youth networks know that they have the right to speak up and tell us what they want!
TO SEE THE FLYER IN ENGLISH, SPANISH, INDONESIAN, AND VIETNAMESE SEE HERE!
Also, join the conversation on Twiiter by using #youthvoices and @NCDChild
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Population-based approaches to childhood obesity prevention
The United Nations Political Declaration of the High-level Meeting of the General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases and the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health both identify population-based prevention as being vital to addressing rising levels of noncommunicable diseases, with specific emphasis on childhood obesity.
This document from the WHO aims to provide an overview of the types of childhood obesity prevention interventions that can be undertaken at national, sub-national and local levels. |
Salt Reduction Initiatives
As part of celebration of Salt Awareness week, PAHO TAG subgroup on communication has been using social media to raise awareness in the Region. You can follow on Twitter @saltreduction, www.twitter.com/saltreduction; @ncds and Facebook: www.facebook.com/PAHONCDs.
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Behavioural risk factors in adolescence: A common cause with multiple consequences for adolescents’ health.
Unhealthy behaviours that usually begin or are reinforced in adolescence such as harmful use of alcohol and other drugs, tobacco use, and obesity may have multiple negative effects on adolescents’ health and their future lives. For example alcohol abuse has been associated with a higher risk of both early pregnancy and HIV infection in adolescence, and a higher likelihood of developing cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and some types of cancer later in life. Similarly, obesity in adolescent women may increase their risk of gestational diabetes and preeclampsia, and at the same time predispose them to the development of breast cancer, high blood pressure and diabetes in adulthood.
It is against this background that the Young Health Programme (YHP) has produced the brief called “Behavioural risk factors in adolescents: A common cause with multiple consequences for adolescents’ health”. The purpose of this document is to present evidence to support the claim that prevention of behavioural risk factors in adolescence is an efficient approach to achieving multiple health goals including the improvement of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) outcomes and the reduction of the growing epidemic of non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
Read the YHP Brief: “Behavioural risk factors in adolescents: A common cause with multiple consequences for adolescents’ health” |
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