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Lessons from the Caribbean on integrated healthcare

Dawn Edge By Dawn Edge Filed Under: Ethnicity, Featured Posted: June 23, 2015

The NHS has much that it could learn from integrated mental health and primary care in the Caribbean, explains Dr Dawn Edge. The government has signalled that health and social care providers must move from ‘engagement’ to full ‘integration’. While the details are being worked out, there is some (albeit muted) disquiet that mental healthcare […]

Tagged With: Barbados, Caribbean, department of health, Five Year Forward View, integrated healthcare, Jamaica, Kingston, long term conditions, mental health, morbidity, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, National Institute for Health Research, NHS, NICE, Professor Wendel Abel, Winston Churchill Memorial Trust

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Can parenting training reduce death rates?

By Anilena Mejia Filed Under: Featured Posted: June 8, 2015

Violent crime, particularly related to drug trafficking, is one of the world’s major causes of death.  Anilena Mejia suggests parenting training may be effective in reducing crime and violence.  Crime is the main cause of death in many countries. In Guatemala City, it is estimated that 116 people in every 100,000 are murdered each year. […]

Tagged With: CAC, Caribbean, Central America, children, crime, drugs, families, Guatemala, homicides, murder, Panama, parenting training, Triple P, violence

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