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Revising primary and secondary school curricula in the Caribbean to enhance education on the risks for noncommunicable diseases
In the English-speaking Caribbean, an estimated 46% of men and 61% of women are currently overweight or obese, and 8% of children younger than 5 years are also overweight. To combat this worsening epidemic, driven by unhealthy dietary patterns, the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CAR...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10317247/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37405120 http://dx.doi.org/10.26633/RPSP.2023.97 |
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author | Jones, Waneisha Sobers, Natasha Brown-Perry, Alsian Bristol, Laurette Samuels, T. Alafia |
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description | In the English-speaking Caribbean, an estimated 46% of men and 61% of women are currently overweight or obese, and 8% of children younger than 5 years are also overweight. To combat this worsening epidemic, driven by unhealthy dietary patterns, the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) issued the 2007 Port-of-Spain Declaration, which included mandates on the provision of healthy school meals, promotion of healthy dietary patterns, and reintroduction of physical education in schools. These mandates are aligned with evidence-based approaches used in childhood obesity prevention programs. School-based interventions, including curriculum revisions, are part of a multipronged approach to improve nutrition in children and are designed to complement and reinforce other interventions in schools. However, formal evaluation of the Port-of-Spain Declaration showed that most CARICOM member countries had difficulty implementing the mandates related to schools and diet. The Improving Household Nutrition Security and Public Health in the CARICOM project, in collaboration with regional institutions, the CARICOM Secretariat, and the Caribbean Examinations Council, sought to enhance nutrition education through revision of region-wide primary and secondary school curricula to increase the focus on prevention of noncommunicable diseases. This paper describes the process of revising the Caribbean Examinations Council’s Human and Social Biology syllabus for secondary schools and the CARICOM Health and Family Life Education Regional Curriculum Framework for primary schools, which was achieved through multisectoral collaboration. We used the Framework for Reporting Adaptations and Modifications-Enhanced model to describe the process through which the modifications were made. |
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spelling | pubmed-103172472023-07-04 Revising primary and secondary school curricula in the Caribbean to enhance education on the risks for noncommunicable diseases Jones, Waneisha Sobers, Natasha Brown-Perry, Alsian Bristol, Laurette Samuels, T. Alafia Rev Panam Salud Publica Special Report In the English-speaking Caribbean, an estimated 46% of men and 61% of women are currently overweight or obese, and 8% of children younger than 5 years are also overweight. To combat this worsening epidemic, driven by unhealthy dietary patterns, the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) issued the 2007 Port-of-Spain Declaration, which included mandates on the provision of healthy school meals, promotion of healthy dietary patterns, and reintroduction of physical education in schools. These mandates are aligned with evidence-based approaches used in childhood obesity prevention programs. School-based interventions, including curriculum revisions, are part of a multipronged approach to improve nutrition in children and are designed to complement and reinforce other interventions in schools. However, formal evaluation of the Port-of-Spain Declaration showed that most CARICOM member countries had difficulty implementing the mandates related to schools and diet. The Improving Household Nutrition Security and Public Health in the CARICOM project, in collaboration with regional institutions, the CARICOM Secretariat, and the Caribbean Examinations Council, sought to enhance nutrition education through revision of region-wide primary and secondary school curricula to increase the focus on prevention of noncommunicable diseases. This paper describes the process of revising the Caribbean Examinations Council’s Human and Social Biology syllabus for secondary schools and the CARICOM Health and Family Life Education Regional Curriculum Framework for primary schools, which was achieved through multisectoral collaboration. We used the Framework for Reporting Adaptations and Modifications-Enhanced model to describe the process through which the modifications were made. Organización Panamericana de la Salud 2023-07-03 /pmc/articles/PMC10317247/ /pubmed/37405120 http://dx.doi.org/10.26633/RPSP.2023.97 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. No modifications or commercial use of this article are permitted. In any reproduction of this article there should not be any suggestion that PAHO or this article endorse any specific organization or products. The use of the PAHO logo is not permitted. This notice should be preserved along with the article’s original URL. Open access logo and text by PLoS, under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. |
spellingShingle | Special Report Jones, Waneisha Sobers, Natasha Brown-Perry, Alsian Bristol, Laurette Samuels, T. Alafia Revising primary and secondary school curricula in the Caribbean to enhance education on the risks for noncommunicable diseases |
title | Revising primary and secondary school curricula in the Caribbean to enhance education on the risks for noncommunicable diseases |
title_full | Revising primary and secondary school curricula in the Caribbean to enhance education on the risks for noncommunicable diseases |
title_fullStr | Revising primary and secondary school curricula in the Caribbean to enhance education on the risks for noncommunicable diseases |
title_full_unstemmed | Revising primary and secondary school curricula in the Caribbean to enhance education on the risks for noncommunicable diseases |
title_short | Revising primary and secondary school curricula in the Caribbean to enhance education on the risks for noncommunicable diseases |
title_sort | revising primary and secondary school curricula in the caribbean to enhance education on the risks for noncommunicable diseases |
topic | Special Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10317247/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37405120 http://dx.doi.org/10.26633/RPSP.2023.97 |
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