{"id":205,"date":"2012-03-01T11:12:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T11:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/eyecarecaribbean\/2012\/03\/01\/fact-sheet-non-communicable-diseases-in-jamaica-moving-from-prescription-to-prevention\/"},"modified":"2012-03-01T11:12:08","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T11:12:08","slug":"fact-sheet-non-communicable-diseases-in-jamaica-moving-from-prescription-to-prevention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/research-and-evidence\/fact-sheet-non-communicable-diseases-in-jamaica-moving-from-prescription-to-prevention\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact Sheet: Non-Communicable Diseases in Jamaica: Moving from Prescription to Prevention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Non-Communicable Diseases in Jamaica: Moving from Prescription to Prevention<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of mortality and morbidity in Jamaica. The most prevalent are hypertension, diabetes and asthma.<\/li>\n<li>Patterns of a specific disease vary considerably by socioeconomic subgroups, but females, seniors, and rural residents are at higher risk.<\/li>\n<li>Unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, smoking and excessive alcohol consumption are major risk factors.<\/li>\n<li>Jamaica is carrying a double burden of both communicable diseases and NCDs.<\/li>\n<li>NCDs are rising substantially and rapidly as the population lives longer.<\/li>\n<li>63 percent of \u201cYears of Life Lost\u201d are due to NCDs compared to a global average of less than 50 percent and 60 percent for low- and middle-income countries in the Americas. <!--more--> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Download the full fact sheet as a pdf document <a href=\"ecc\/docs\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul> <\/ul>\n<p> <a title=\"View World Bank Factsheet - NCDs in JAMAICA on Scribd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/83312115\/World-Bank-Factsheet-NCDs-in-JAMAICA\" style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; display: block; text-decoration: underline;\">World Bank Factsheet &#8211; NCDs in JAMAICA<\/a>  <object data=\"http:\/\/d1.scribdassets.com\/ScribdViewer.swf\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,32,18\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" height=\"600\" width=\"100%\" style=\"outline: none;\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"opaque\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"document_id=83312115&amp;access_key=key-1gcok455sxgyz5gj1eai&amp;page=1&amp;viewMode=list\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/d1.scribdassets.com\/ScribdViewer.swf\" \/><embed height=\"600\" width=\"100%\" src=\"http:\/\/d1.scribdassets.com\/ScribdViewer.swf\" flashvars=\"document_id=83312115&amp;access_key=key-1gcok455sxgyz5gj1eai&amp;page=1&amp;viewMode=list\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" wmode=\"opaque\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Non-Communicable Diseases in Jamaica: Moving from Prescription to Prevention Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of mortality and morbidity in Jamaica. The most prevalent are hypertension, diabetes and asthma. Patterns of a specific disease vary considerably by socioeconomic subgroups, but females, seniors, and rural residents are at higher risk. Unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, smoking and excessive alcohol consumption are major risk factors. Jamaica is carrying a double burden of both communicable diseases and NCDs. NCDs are rising substantially and rapidly as the population lives longer. 63 percent of \u201cYears of Life Lost\u201d are due to NCDs compared to a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-and-evidence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}