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Opportunities and Challenges in the Non-Health Sector (Education) in Responding to NCDs

Leonie Clarke University of Technology, Jamaica May 29, 2012. Opportunities and Challenges in the Non-Health Sector (Education) in Responding to NCDs. Helping people learn new information about NCDs and helping them develop attitudes, skills, and confidence to improve their health .

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Opportunities and Challenges in the Non-Health Sector (Education) in Responding to NCDs

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  1. Leonie Clarke University of Technology, Jamaica May 29, 2012 Opportunities and Challenges in the Non-Health Sector (Education) in Responding to NCDs

  2. Helping people learn new information about NCDs and helping them develop attitudes, skills, and confidence to improve their health Role of education

  3. Reach Receptivity Reputation Relation Research opportunities

  4. opportunities challenges Information on NCDs can be delivered to Individuals at all levels of the education system (Wide cross-section; early childhood to tertiary) Government support • Schools’ agendas • Parents’ agenda • Materials • Funding Reach

  5. opportunities Challenges Education can be delivered in various locations, churches, community centres, homes, workplace etc Education can be delivered through various media; F2F, print, electronic • Who is present – men often missing • Time • Accessibility • Ability to use • Age reach

  6. opportunities challenges • Persons with ill-health conditions want information for treatment/management • Persons without ill-health condition want information for prevention • Non-compliance • Cultural issues • Disinterest • Invincibility Receptivity

  7. opportunities challenges • Trained personnel are respected • Teachers trained in certain specializations are equipped to teach about NCD’s • Role model • Teachers are less respected that health personnel • Teachers trained in certain specializations are not as respected as others • Do as I say… • Familial reputation

  8. opportunities challenges • Link NCD education to nutrition programmes, e.g. school lunch • Link NCD education to school curriculum, e.g. physical education, food and nutrition, etc. • Questionable quality of nutrition programmes • Schools’ priority, students’ interest, age group relation

  9. opportunities challenges • Research guides teaching, teaching guides research • Professional groups • Jamaican Home Economics Association(JHEA) • Caribbean Association of Home Economists (CAHE) • Jamaica Association of Professionals in Nutrition and Dietetics (JAPINAD) • CANDI • Time, interest, work load • Dormancy • Dialogue • integration research

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