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A study just launched will investigate ways to reduce non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes and high blood pressure, which cause more than 60 per cent of deaths in the Caribbean. Researchers from King’s College London, the University of Guyana (UG), Ross University Dominica and the...
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A Healthy Environment: Key to Our Children’s Health Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, September 10, 2016: “About 1 in every 5 of our Caribbean children carries unhealthy weight and is at risk of developing costly non-communicable diseases (NCDs), and other problems later in life,&rdquo...
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CARPHA Executive Director Dr. C. James Hospedales’ Message for Caribbean Wellness Day, 12 September 2015 "Those who think they have no time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness." In uttering these words in the mid-1800s, British statesman Edward St...
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Caribbean Wellness Day 2014 Message CARPHA's Executive Director On this second Saturday in September, I am pleased to invite you to join with me in celebrating Caribbean Wellness Day 2014. As you may know, Caribbean Wellness Day is an annual event geared at increasing awareness and promoting acti...
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