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4th Triennial Luther L. Terry Awards for Exemplary Leadership in Tobacco
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The American
Cancer Society today announces the opening of the call
for nominations of the Luther L. Terry Awards for
Exemplary Leadership in Tobacco Control. Named for the
late United States Surgeon General Luther L. Terry,
M.D., whose groundbreaking work established the
foundation for public health scrutiny of the dangers of
tobacco use, the awards honor outstanding leadership and
accomplishment, are synonymous with excellence, and
signify that the recipients are among the very best in
the world at what they do. The awards will be presented
at the 14th World Conference on Tobacco OR Health, in
Mumbai, India on Wednesday, March 11, 2009.
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Message from the President Dr. Rafael Shuchleib |
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This past year
has seen continued growth for the InterAmerican Heart
Foundation (IAHF). The CARMELA Study principal paper has
been accepted for publication in the American Journal of
Medicine and will appear in Jan 2008. IAHF organized the
publication of a series of policy relevant articles on
preventing heart diseases and stroke in Latin America
and the Caribbean that appeared in the journal
Prevention and Control. We continue to expand advocacy
work in tobacco control. With partner Maver, we
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professionals
in Chile, as well as risk reduction messages for the
public. The Board meeting in April 07 in Lima gave us an
opportunity to review the Foundation’s priorities and
re-commit to some key principles. The focus will
continue to be on advocacy and education, seeking
sustainability of all initiatives. We understand the
importance of continuing to maintain an action
orientation and meeting the needs of our region, jointly
with our members and various regional, national and
local partners, governments and civil society. |
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II Seminario Regional sobre Epidemiología y Prevención de las
Enfermedades Cardiovasculares |
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Con gran éxito
se llevó acabo el II Seminario Regional Sobre
Epidemiología y Prevención de las Enfermedades
Cardiovasculares, organizado por Ascardio y la Sociedad
Internacional para la Epidemiología y Prevención de las
Enfermedades Cardiovasculares, el cual se desarrolló
desde el 29 de Febrero hasta el 5 de Marzo de 2008, en
las instalaciones del Hotel La Fumarola, en la población
de Sanare, ubicada en el Estado Lara, Venezuela, donde
un grupo de médicos provenientes de diversas ciudades de
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latitudes
como: México, Colombia, El Salvador, Canadá, España,
Ecuador, Argentina y Puerto Rico se dieron cita para
estudiar entre otros puntos, conceptos básicos de
epidemiología, estadística y métodos en salud pública
necesarios para emprender la lucha contra las
enfermedades cardiovasculares y sus factoresderiesgo.
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Heads
of State of Caribbean Countries Commit to Curbing the Epidemic of
Chronic Disease |
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Prime
Ministers of Caribbean Countries met on September 15th
in Port of Spain, Trinidad, in the First Caribbean
Summit on Chronic Diseases and signed a declaration for
the prevention of chronic diseases in the Caribbean
countries. This declaration represents a major regional
assault against chronic non-communicable diseases.
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This
historic first step of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)
is intended to galvanize the Region against obesity,
high blood pressure, diabetes, stroke, heart attack and
some kinds of cancer. See graph of obesity trends in the
Caribbean. Chronic diseases result largely from poor
diet and low levels of physical activity as well as
tobacco smoking and exposure to tobacco smoke. They come
at a high cost to individuals and to the region’s nation
states in terms of human suffering, expensive treatment
and loss of productivity. IAHF is working with member
organizations to facilitate an appropriate civil society
response to this opportunity. |
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Interamerican Youth for Health |
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Young
people from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and
Uruguay participated in an event to highlight advocacy
projects in their countries. They signed “The Latin
American and Caribbean Youth Declaration for a Tobacco
Free Life.” They request governments of the region to
ratify and implement the Framework Convention on Tobacco
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professionals and the public about the damage caused by
tobacco, to include youth in the deliberations and
actions about tobacco control affecting them, to support
and provide tools to build capacity among youth in
tobacco control, and to promote joined work by civil
society and international entities to prevent and
control tobacco in our societies. Young people presented
their Declaration during the Closing Ceremony of the Rio
Iberoamerican Tobacco Control Conference. This youth
participation was the result of a partnership between
the World Heart Federation and the InterAmerican Heart
Foundation. |
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Women and Tobacco |
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The
InterAmerican Heart Foundation (IAHF) and International
Network of Women Against Tobacco (INWAT) organized a
Pre-Conference Workshop focus on Women and Tobacco
during the First SRNT Latin America & Second
Iberoamerican Conference on Tobacco Control in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil. The purpose of the meeting was to
provide a platform for debate; share experiences and
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lessons
learned about women and tobacco in the fields of
advocacy, research and policy; and facilitate the
development of women's leadership in the Ibero-American
regions.
Participants attending the Conference signed the Rio
Declaration which announces the creation of the “Latin
American and Caribbean Women’s Network for Tobacco
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Focusing Tobacco Control Research in Latin America and the Caribbean |
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The
InterAmerican Heart Foundation (IAHF) and Research for
International Tobacco Control (RICT/IDRC) organized a
regional meeting that |
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took
place March 22-25, 2007 in Colonia, Uruguay, with the
objective of establishing research priorities in tobacco
control in the region of Latin America and the Caribbean
(LAC). The workshop participants were 30 key researchers
and activists in tobacco control in LAC, from a wide
range of professions and disciplines including
economists, lawyers, journalists, nurses, physicians,
psychologists, anthropologists, sociologists, political
scientists, among others, as well as government and
non-government organizations. There were also
representatives from some important organizations such
as: American Cancer Society, Johns Hopkins University,
Johnson & Johnson and the Pan American Health
Organization (PAHO).
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Community Interventions for Health (CIH) |
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The
IAHF received a grant to implement the CIH program in
Mexico City over three years. The Principal Investigator
is Dr. Jorge Ramírez, an epidemiologist and health
economist associated with
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Foundation. The aim of CIH is to |
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develop
and showcase sustainable interventions, demonstrating
their effectiveness in a way that is both practical and
scientifically rigorous. Project outcomes include:
In
other words, CIH will provide evidence and practical
advice on what does and does not work in chronic disease
prevention.
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4th Journalism Contest on Tobacco Control |
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The
IAHF, jointly with the Pan American Health Organization
and the Framework Convention Alliance, presented first
prizes in the categories of print and radio to
journalists in the region. First prize overall went to
Valeria Roman (see right), a science journalist with
Clarin, the largest circulation newspaper in Argentina,
for her August 2006 article "El Proyecto Oficial de Ley
Contra el Tabaquismo." The first prize in the radio
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went to
Daniel Cassola Buenos Aires, Argentina, for his radio
program "60 Minutos con Daniel Cassola". A fifth contest
was announced in Rio for works prepared in 2007.
Many thanks to Johnson & Johnson for their kind support
of this contest.
A list of all contest entries can be found
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CARMELA Study: Publication of main paper |
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The
main paper entitled “CARMELA: assessment of
cardiovascular risk in seven Latina American cities” was
accepted for publication by the American Journal of
Medicine and is expected to appear in January 2008. This
study recruited 11,550 |
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individuals, ages 25 to 64, from Bogotá
(Colombia), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Lima (Peru),
Mexico City, Quito (Ecuador), Santiago (Chile), and
Barquisimeto (Venezuela) to be representative of the
population of their respective cities. Each of these
individuals completed an interview in his or her home
and then visited a medical center where physical and
biochemical measures where obtained. All participants
also had carotic intima media thickness (IMT) measured
by echography. The CARMELA Study objectives are to
determine the prevalence of arterial hypertension,
diabetes and dislipidemia, their correlations and
associations; measure the IMT of carotid arteries,
investigating its association with risk factors;
evaluate socio-economic factors; determine other
cardiovascular risk factors including tobacco use, diet
and physical activity; and evaluate the pertinent
treatment of the evaluated risk factors and adherence to
them. CARMELA investigators met in mid October 2007 in
Buenos Aires to complete the 7 articles on specific risk
factors that will make up a Supplement. The Supplement
topics are hypertension, diabetes, tobacco, obesity,
lipids, metabolic syndrome and IMT. The Mario Negri
Institute of Milan, Italy, is the study’s main
statistical analysis consultant. The Mario Negri brings
to CARMELA a wealth of experience in data management,
analysis and interpretation that will contribute
significantly to the CARMELA enterprise. |
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Emergency Cardiovascular Care |
During 2007,
the IAHF ECC Executive Committee developed a new Strategic Plan
that was approved by the IAHF Board of Directors. The sustained
growth in the ECC training program, in conjunction with the AHA,
is a testament to the advancement of the mission of the
Committee. The IAHF just recently designated Dr. Saúl Drajer as
the new President Elect of the ECC Executive Committee.
Public Access Defibrillation initiatives throughout Latin
America and the Caribbean include preventing sudden death in
sports. In 2008, commemorating the 10th anniversary of the ECC
Committee, the First Iberoamerican Congress on CPR and ECC will
take place in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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