-health sector programme manager
Lifestyle diseases account for around 76% of deaths in Caricom.
This is according to Tamara Bobb, Programme Manager, Health Sector Development Programme at the CARICOM Secretariat.
A release yesterday from CARICOM said that matters pertaining to the Port-of-Spain Declaration on Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) were among the priority issues discussed at the Meeting of Officials preparatory to the Forty-Seventh Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) – Health, held virtually on 11 September 2024. Crime and violence as a public health issue, regional health security, human resources for health and disease surveillance were among other issues addressed.