{"id":206,"date":"2012-03-01T11:26:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T11:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/eyecarecaribbean\/2012\/03\/01\/fact-sheet-the-growing-burden-of-non-communicable-diseases-in-the-eastern-caribbean\/"},"modified":"2012-03-01T11:26:35","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T11:26:35","slug":"fact-sheet-the-growing-burden-of-non-communicable-diseases-in-the-eastern-caribbean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/research-and-evidence\/fact-sheet-the-growing-burden-of-non-communicable-diseases-in-the-eastern-caribbean\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact Sheet: The Growing Burden of Non- Communicable Diseases in the Eastern Caribbean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Growing Burden of Non- Communicable Diseases in the Eastern Caribbean<\/strong>  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) account for 6 of the top 10 leading causes of death in the Eastern Caribbean.<\/li>\n<li>The underlying risk factors are poor diet, physical inactivity, tobacco consumption, and alcohol abuse.<\/li>\n<li>People are living longer, which presents new demands on the health systems in OECS countries*.<\/li>\n<li>Women represent a larger percentage of the population and the 65+ segment is growing relative to the younger segment.<\/li>\n<li>NCDs now surpass communicable diseases as the leading cause of death in the OECS countries.<\/li>\n<li>70 percent of \u201cYears of Life Lost\u201d are now 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<p> <a title=\"View World Bank Factsheet - Ncds in the Eastern Caribbean on Scribd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/83312008\/World-Bank-Factsheet-Ncds-in-the-Eastern-Caribbean\" 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 the Eastern Caribbean<\/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=83312008&amp;access_key=key-n585m9psiyelc6pl1ag&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=83312008&amp;access_key=key-n585m9psiyelc6pl1ag&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>The Growing Burden of Non- Communicable Diseases in the Eastern Caribbean Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) account for 6 of the top 10 leading causes of death in the Eastern Caribbean. The underlying risk factors are poor diet, physical inactivity, tobacco consumption, and alcohol abuse. People are living longer, which presents new demands on the health systems in OECS countries*. Women represent a larger percentage of the population and the 65+ segment is growing relative to the younger segment. NCDs now surpass communicable diseases as the leading cause of death in the OECS countries. 70 percent of \u201cYears of Life Lost\u201d are &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-206","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\/206","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=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}