ABSTRACT
The Jamaica Moves programme is a comprehensive health promotion campaign that embraces the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion and utilizes all its tenets to create a vibrant sustainable behaviour change model to tackle the risk factors for Non Communicable diseases. The programme corrals a variety of activities that makes conditions favourable for behaviour change through advocacy for health and providing access to information to enable all people to reach their fullest health potential by taking control of those things that determine their health, while, bearing in mind the responsibility of the Ministry of Health to mediate between differing interests in society for the pursuit of health. The programme cuts across all sectors of society, targeted at the individual, interpersonal, organizational, community and national levels. Jamaica Moves started at a national level, aiming at changing behaviour in the general public towards increasing the level of physical activity. Since implementation, the initial concept has been expanded to target three main areas: Physical inactivity, healthy nutrition and promotion of routine health checks for the general population. Health is created and lived by people within the settings of their everyday life; where they learn, work, play and live. Health is created by caring for oneself and for others, and by enabling the individual to take decisions and have control over one's life circumstances, and by ensuring that the society one lives in creates conditions that allow the attainment of health by all its constituents.
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Humans , Exercise , Risk Factors , Healthy Lifestyle , Noncommunicable Diseases/prevention & control , Health Promotion , JamaicaABSTRACT
The Ministry of Health (MOH), in seeking to promote healthy lifestyles to the Jamaican population, targets special settings as a means to achieving this goal. One of these special settings is the school. The MOH has had an on-going working relationship with the Ministry of Education (MOE) where targeted health interventions have been conducted in schools across the island. However, there has never been a sustained collaborative approach which is comprehensive in nature. It is for this reason that the MOH and the MOE have begun working together to implement a plan through which all schools will strive to be established as Health Promoting Schools
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Schools/standards , National Health Strategies , Student Health , Health Education , School Sanitation , Health Promotion , JamaicaSubject(s)
Humans , Child , Adult , Child Health Services/organization & administration , Child Health Services/trends , Family Planning Services/trends , Health Education/trends , Maternal Health Services/organization & administration , Maternal Health Services/trends , Maternal-Child Health Centers/supply & distribution , Maternal-Child Health Centers/trends , JamaicaABSTRACT
This is a report of the first study of the iron nutritional status in Jamaica. There were 5509 participants: 2716 females who were not pregnant or lactating(NPNL), and 2334 males, aged 0 - 19 years; and 209 pregnant and 250 lactating women. 56 percent of the boys and 56 percent of the girls less than 2 years old, 34 percent of the boys and 37 percent of the girls aged 2-4 years, and 25 percent of the 15- 19 year-old NPNL females, were iron deficient(iron stores 0 mg or less). The prevalence of iron deficiency in other males and NPNL females varied between 13 and 15 percent. The prevalence of iron deficiency among pregnant and lactating women was 53 percent and 34 percent, respectively