Antigua to host regional health conference next week
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| Published on Friday, October 10, 2008 |
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By Oscar Ramjeet
Caribbean Net News Special Correspondent
Email: oscar@caribbeannetnews.com
ST JOHN’S, Antigua: More than 100 delegates from 17 Caribbean countries will be in Antigua next week to attend a major health conference.
The theme of the conference will be "Community Based Prevention and Management of Cardiovascular and other Chronic Disease among Caribbean Elderly - A focus on Nursing Leadership”.
The conference is in collaboration with the Duke University School of Nursing - office of global and community health initiatives and the Ministry of Health together with the Pan American Health Organisation and the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Antigua Sun reported that this would be the second invitational continuing education conference, with the first having been held in Barbados last year.
The goals of the 13-15 October conference will focus on using collaborative process to further develop and refine a comprehensive care for the elderly that are afflicted with cardiovascular diseases.
The model will focus on prevention, health promotion and primary care offered through community-based programmes that seek to strengthen the capacity of the nursing workforce in the Caribbean to exercise leadership in developing a sound primary health care delivery to the elderly in the Caribbean with cardiovascular and other chronic diseases.
Antigua Health Minister John Maginley will open the conference, while presentations will be made by Dr Catherine Gillis, Dean at the Duke University of Nursing and Vice Chancellor for Nursing, PAHO representative and Dr Bernadette Theodore-Gandi. | | | | Reads : 576 | | | |
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