The Importance of the Regional Tourism and Health Program THP in the Resilience and Recovery to the Travel and Tourism Industry in the Caribbean: A Global Innovative Cooperative International Formula | Chapter 1 | An Overview on Business, Management and Economics Research Vol. 6

 Travel and touristry is key for the sustainability of Caribbean economies, driving recruitment and revenue era for many of the states. The ongoing COVID-19 universal, catalysed by travel, drastically debilitated the Caribbean frugalities, causing important economic and job misfortunes, disruptions of crucial services and endangered regional energy security. With the revealed need of integrating health in travel even prior to the COVID-19 universal, the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) grown the Regional Tourism and Well-being Program (THP) with this in mind. The aim of this chapter search out highlight the crucial part of the THP in the recovery of the travel sector by improving the fitness and safety of Caribbean nation, contributing toward strengthened elasticity of Caribbean tourism and the sustainability of its savings. The research seeks to climax the impact that COVID-19 has had on specific industries center to Caribbean tourism, such as weakened tourist arrivals (by way of airlines and cruise ships), decline in travel and tourism GDP, closure of travel business and facilities and increases in inaction rate. It seeks to address these challenges through differing tools and products formed by the THP i.e. the exercise of a multifaceted approach - following and response, capacity construction, guidelines, policy, flags, advocacy and participations, a travellers’ health award and mobile app – and together with national, local and international travel and health stakeholders to addresses fitness, safety, and environmental cleanliness (HSE) threats to touristry whilst bolstering ethnic and regional health plans. Due to COVID-19, the Program has repurposed many of allure tools for a more robust answer, to boost travellers’ confidence and re-establish more active, safer resume travel in the Caribbean. This innovative program, the first global work of its kind, continues to aim toward bolstering tenable tourism and health protection, lending toward upgraded economic stability in the Caribbean. Through these forms, 7836 persons were trained, 789 trades were registered on THP’s land-located visitor surveillance plan, 1190 alerts on incoming cruise ships were issued to Appendage States and 108 tourist abilities received the Healthier, More reliable Tourism Award. This chapter will debate the tools inside the Program and illustrate how the THP can support the Caribbean’s readiness and response to COVID-19 and other community health threats and develop the recovery and sustainability of Caribbean tourism.

Author(s) Details:

Lisa Indar,
Caribbean Public Health Agency, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.

Sastee Kissoondan,
Caribbean Public Health Agency, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.

Keston Daniel,
Caribbean Public Health Agency, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.

Rhonda Williams,
College of Public Health, East Tennessee State University (ETSU), Johnson City, TN 37614, United States.

Frieda Mohammed,
Caribbean Public Health Agency, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.

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'Is We Carnival Culture; is We Caribbean Thing; is We Life!': Demystifying Gendered Relations and the Taboo of Sex and HIV and AIDS among West Indian Women | Chapter 7 | Recent Trends in Arts and Social Studies Vol. 3

 This study covers the detracting and interconnected functions of several socio-educational issues in the Caribbean: Patriarchy, sex commercialisation, fathers having sexuality with brothers, violence, and conscientious practices - all providing to HIV and AIDS risk. By doing so, the item promotes knowledge of the harsh realisms of Caribbean women's intercourse lives and how Caribbean breeding disproportionately exposes ruling class to HIV and AIDS risk. The report concludes accompanying a need for more research into the crucial socio-enlightening factors that unfavorably influence male-female relationships and their effect on HIV and AIDS risk in the Caribbean.

Author(s) Details:

Shivaughn Hem-Lee-Forsyth,
St. George's University, St. George's, Grenada.

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Study on Pattern and Prevalence of Dyslipidemia and Other Cardiovascular Risk Factors among the Various Ethnic Groups of Trinidad and Tobago | Chapter 10 | Issues and Development in Health Research Vol. 8

 Background: Dyslipidemia is a crucial component of the metabolic syndrome and has long been linked to the development of issues such as cardiovascular disease (CVD). In addition, there have been reports of differences in the pattern of lipid derangements, particularly between people of African heritage and their South Asian counterparts.

The goal of this study is to highlight the pattern and prevalence of dyslipidemia and other cardiovascular risk factors among Trinidad and Tobago's various ethnic groups.

Materials and Methods: Each of the 968 participants in this study had 10 mL of blood drawn after an overnight fast of 10–12 hours. Plasma and sera were tested for glucose, total cholesterol, triglycerides, high density cholesterol (HDL-c), very low density lipoprotein (VLDL), and low density lipoprotein (LDL) (LDL). Height, weight, waist circumference, age, gender, education, occupation, ethnicity, and medical history, including medications, were all measured in each subject.

Results: Hypertriglyceridemia was found in 33.88 percent of the patients in our study, with the highest prevalence of 46.69 percent seen in South Asians. Body mass index (BMI), systolic blood pressure, blood glucose, triglycerides, and very low-density lipoprotein cholesterol were all different (p 0.05) amongst ethnic groups. However, HDL-c levels were similar across ethnic groups, with the exception that patients of South Asian descent have a trend toward non-significantly greater HDL-c levels than other ethnic groups (p > 0.05).

Conclusion: The study highlighted the well-known considerable discrepancy in lipid profiles amongst people of different ethnic groups in Trinidad and Tobago, particularly among patients with chronic noncommunicable disease (CNCD).

Author(S) Details

Idris Saleh
Department of Chemical Pathology, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria.

B. Shivananda Nayak
Department of Pre-Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medical Sciences, The University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago.

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