The Ministries of Health and Well-being of the Adventist Church on the seventh day of the seventh-day (SDA), in partnership with the famous Uchee Pines Lifestyle Institute of Alabama in the United States (United States), should organize a symposium Special aimed at teaching the lifestyle that lives life. Modifications to unpaid diseases (MNT) inverted.
The launch of yesterday at the Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston saw medical, government and opposition representatives providing data from the country’s health statement, with a prognosis that is not good For young people, aging or disabled.
Dr. Derria Cornwall, consultant radiologist and director of health ministries at Andrews Memorial Adventist Church, said that the objective of the symposium will teach individuals effective and inexpensive means to overthrow lifestyle diseases such as the diabetes, hypertension and heart disease; Manage stress and improve sleep.
“The Institute (Uchee Pines Lifestyle Institute) will work with local doctors, lifestyle practitioners and advisers to present a series of conferences and workshops and also to consult personal medical consultations,” she declared at launch.
Several members of medical staff from the Institute will be people of resources for the symposium to be held on February 26 to March 1 in Andrews Memorial, which is located on Hope Road in St Andrew.
Among those who are addressed to the launch of yesterday, there was Dr. Simone Spence, who is the acting doctor while Dr. Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie is on leave. She told Reunion that Jamaica faced an MNT crisis – an astounding reality that requires urgent action of all stakeholders – and that statistics were not good for Jamaica or the rest of the world.
“Jamaica is no exception to this, as, according to our Jamaica health and lifestyle surveyOne in three people is hypertensive or has high blood pressure, but also another in three is pre-hypertensive. And more surprisingly, this is what Dr (Leslie) Meade would have shared, the fact that 40% of these people ignore that they have this condition. One in eight suffers from diabetes and more than 50% of them do not know that they suffer from diabetes. One in two people is approximately overweight or obese, what we all know is a major risk factor for the MNT, “she said.
Added to this, the vast majority of Jamaicans consume less than the required daily contribution of fruits and vegetables, and more than 30% live a sedentary lifestyle, which is also a factor contributing to the high load of the disease. Among the first 10 countries of the Americas for diabetes and the complications and deaths of cancer.
Diabetes is listed as the first killer in this regard. For men, the main cause of death is a stroke, while cancer remains among the main causes of death, representing almost 24% of the deaths related to the MNT in 2020, breast and prostate cancers being the main causes .
Continuing, she said: “And there was a significant increase from 2006 to 2021 in what we call mortality rates standing by age for diabetes, hypertensive diseases, ischemic heart disease and bast cancer Under conditions, whatever the age structure of our population. And also fears that our employees die younger and that these MNTs are up to their lives. »»
Economic impact a worrying factor
The economic impact is also worrying and she praised Andrews Memorial to have a symposium in both timely and essential. Meade, president of the Jamaica Medical Association (MAJ), said that more young people were dying from the MNT.
“The MNTs also represent almost 80% of deaths in Jamaica. So when you see a death certificate, it is more than likely that diabetes, hypertension, cancer. And this is why this initiative is very important …. Thus, while genetics plays a role, our population is also aging and as we age, we will develop non -transmitted diseases. Research is clear that lifestyle choices are the main causes and risk factors such as our poor diet, our physical inactivity and other harmful habits that start early in life and influenced by social, environmental and commercial factors “He said to the launch.
At the same time, Dr. Alfred Dawes, opposition spokesperson on Health, a bariatric surgeon, said that a change in mentality was necessary, without which individuals will be constantly in a weight gain cycle, of Weight loss and regulation, with blood pressure and diabetes that will uncontrol. According to him, there was a lack of acceptance for chronic diseases, which transcends educational status.
People watched and wished breast pieces, while cancer has developed, after which many government are often abdicated. Loading that there is a shortage of healthy meals, he said: “We must do better as a country”.
Quoting the preponderance of the menus with hidden levels of trans fat, he said that people are often due to believe that they eat healthy. While he congratulated the maj for his plea, he said that more was necessary to make Jamaica healthy.
“We must adopt the laws that govern trans fats, the availability of information in restaurants, where you do not have a restaurant that is a food chain, and you order a salad that has 1,000 calories thinking that you eat healthy . The calorie values must be detailed on restaurant menus … “, said Dawes.
He wants more screening to be carried out and asked the public to keep him responsible for changes aimed at healthy lifestyles for Jamaica.
Professor Floyd Morris, one of the 18 experts from the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, told those present for the launch that the handicap does not respect anyone, because a person can go from his disabled in a daytime.
Morris has said that handicap is now a question based on rights and that health care is a fundamental right to disabled people under various UN charters. He said that the health system must become more accessible to disabled people, in particular able to communicate with hearing disorders.