The Caribbean: Its Health Problems

ORAL HEALTH INEQUALITIES IN THE CARIBBEAN Abstract Oral health in the Caribbean region

Oral health in the Caribbean region has largely been a low priority for regional governments. Public dental services provide most of the care with private practice treatment being difficult to access for the most disadvantaged groups. This has resulted in inequalities in oral health with a growing gap in health status across the social spectrum. This can only be adequately addressed by high qua...

Adolescence Health: the Needs, Problems and Attention

  Adolescence is a transitional stage of physical and psychological human development that generally occurs during the period from puberty to legal adulthood. There are approximately 1.2 billion adolescents (10-19 years) globally, roughly 90% of whom live in low and middle-income countries. Most are healthy, but there is still significant death, illness and diseases among adolescents. Illnesses...

Child and adolescent mental health in Latin America and the Caribbean: problems, progress, and policy research.

The nations of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have many contrasts in the advances that they have made in the areas of child and adolescent mental health policy, research, and training. Within the LAC countries there exist the most sophisticated of child mental health programs based on comprehensive primary care models (Chile), strong advocacy programs with government support at the highe...

Urban Health: Latin America and the Caribbean

Several urban features, while not unique to Latin America, characterize the specific health challenges facing cities in this region, including the growth of midsize cities and, especially, the growth of periurban spontaneous settlements where sanitation, education, employment, health services, and links to the formal urban economy are often precarious. Health issues in cities include infectious...

Engaging the Caribbean Region for Oral Health.