The Caribbean Public Well being Company (CARPHA) carried out a hybrid Coaching in DHIS2, Utilizing Meals and Diet Indicators to Assist Meals and Diet Surveillance in St. Kitts and Nevis, on the Nationwide ICT Centre in Basseterre from Oct. 4 to five..
In her opening remarks, Dr Heather Armstrong, Head, Continual Illness and Harm Division, CARPHA, said that, “Non-Communicable Illnesses (NCDs) is an epidemic within the area that’s rising from yr to yr, and so as to absolutely assess its affect and the effectiveness of implementation programmes we want a strong nationwide and regional surveillance system.” She additional said that, “this hole might be crammed by the Caribbean (Regional) NCD Surveillance System (CNSS), which incorporates Meals and Diet Surveillance, housed on the DHIS2 (District Well being Data System 2) platform, the concept for which was birthed from an settlement amongst Member States as a part of the Caribbean Cooperation in Well being IV (CCH-IV).”
Dr Hazel Legal guidelines, Chief Medical Officer, Ministry of Well being, reiterated the significance of well being surveillance as “well being surveillance knowledge is used to tell well being safety, well being enchancment and well being service supply. It is usually used to find out acute and power ailments occurrences and danger components, to enhance public well being and enhance illness.” She indicated that “the digitisation of the well being sector and well being surveillance in St. Kitts and Nevis is a precedence of the Honourable Minister of Well being for which the groundwork has already begun.” Dr Legal guidelines concluded by stating that “the DHIS2 is a software that can be utilized to strengthen the well being info system in St. Kitts and Nevis” and that “with help from CARPHA, the objective is to develop an built-in nationwide surveillance system to tell insurance policies, regulatory framework and all public well being interventions.”
Abigail Caleb, Senior Technical Officer, Meals Safety and Diet, CARPHA, additional highlighted the significance of the coaching, stating that “meals and vitamin surveillance techniques are vital to public well being as they supply info for quick and medium to long run decision-making referring to the dietary danger components, dietary standing and nutrition-related ailments and issues in a rustic’s inhabitants.” Additional, “a useful system additionally gives a powerful proof base and capability for the measurement of outcomes of nationwide applications in the direction of the achievement of regional and international targets.”
The workshop sought to extend understanding of the Meals and Diet Surveillance System (FNSS) and the thirty-four (34) meals and vitamin indicators as a part of the CNSS. One other goal was to display abilities in knowledge entry, evaluation, and visualisation (tables and graphs) within the NCDs Surveillance Reporting Type, with concentrate on Meals and Diet Surveillance, hosted on the DHIS2 platform.
The coaching was attended by twenty-eight (28) technical officers from the Ministries of Well being, Training and Sustainable Improvement in St. Kitts and Nevis.
This workshop was funded beneath the Subsidiary Settlement between CARPHA and the Pan American Well being Group (PAHO) “Strengthening Public Well being Capacities within the Caribbean Subregion”.
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