BACKGROUND Continuing education (CE) is crucial for quality improvement in health care. The needs assessment of CE helps ensure effectiveness. However, such an assessment necessitates certain techniques that are unfamiliar to health care communities in developing countries. This study identifies the needs of providing CE to health care personnel in Saint Lucia. METHODS This study was designed...

St. Lucia is an island nation in the Eastern Caribbean, with a population of 179,000 people, where chronic health conditions, such as hypertension and diabetes, are significant. The purpose of this pilot study is to create a model for community health education, tracking, and monitoring of these health conditions, research training, and policy interventions in St. Lucia, which may apply to othe...

Lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals come from diverse cultural groups with differing ethnic and racial identities. However, most research on LGB people uses white western samples and studies of Afro-Caribbean diaspora often use Jamaican samples. Thus, the complexity of Afro-Caribbean LGB peoples' experiences of homophobia is largely unknown. The authors' analyses explore experiences of...

We introduce a catastrophic risk model that captures the cumulative impact of climate change on future expected losses from hurricane risk. The annual growth rates of expected losses due to change in climate patterns (or “climate change factor”) are estimated based upon historical storm activities in the Atlantic Basin and catastrophe modelling. The percentiles of the climate change factor are ...

The presence of pathogens in milk ewes relation to the somatic cell count and subpopulations leukocytes | Kristína Tvarožková, Jaromír Vašíček, Michal Uhrinčať, Lucia Mačuhová, Lukáš Hleba, Vladimír Tančin Agricultural Journals

Suicide poses a debilitating threat to adolescents’ lives worldwide. Although suicide prevention efforts are evident globally, there is limited evidence on the prevalence and correlations of suicidal behaviour among school-going adolescents in Saint Lucia. We used dataset from 2018 Global School-based Student Health Survey examine associated factors 1864 students schools Prevalence rates 25.5%,...

Valery V. Chernykh, Charles M. Henderson, Ruslan Kutygin, Tatiana Filimonova, Guzal Sungatullina, Marina S. Afanasieva, N. Isakova, Rafael Kh. Sungatullin, Michael H. Stephenson, Lucia Angiolini, Boris I. Chuvashov. Episodes -0001;0:. https://doi.org/10.18814/epiiugs/2023/023015