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Targeting chronic disease problem in Mexico with Latin American Supercourse
Dr. Nicolas Padilla-Raygoza
University of GuanajuatoCampus Celaya Salvatierra
Latin American countries
Main NCD’s
•Heart disease and stroke
•Cancer
•Chronic respiratory disease
•Diabetes
WHO. Package of essential non-communicable (PEN) disease interventions for primary health care in low-resource settings, 2008.
Latin American countries
Public health solutions for prevention and control NCD’s
•Tobacco prevention
•Physical activity
•Healthy foods
•Education
WHO. Package of essential non-communicable (PEN) disease interventions for primary health care in low-resource settings, 2008.
Global Health Network Supercourse
The Global Health Network Supercourse project began at the end 1990’s
Main objective: to empower public health teachers around the world
More than 50,000 faculty 174 countries 4,855 lectures
Distribution by languages of visitors of Supercourse lectures
2009-2010Language Country n %
English USA 206,348 80.2
Spanish Latin American countries 7,133 2.8
English Great Britain 6,602 2.6
English Other countries 4,267 1.7
Chinese Taiwan 2,934 1.1
Chinese Popular Republic China 2,782 1.1
Francois France 2,610 1.0
German Germany 2,412 0.9
Spanish Spain 2,344 0.9
Russian Russia 2,207 0.9
Other Other countries 17,764 6.8
Total 257,403 100.0
Latin American Supercourse
It began 4 years ago More than 1,000 health professionals More than 500 lectures in Spanish Quality evaluation higher than 4 (out of 5). To offer Spanish speaking health
professionals lectures of high quality from leaders in health.
Latin American Supercourse
More than 40,000 Webpage visits in four years.
Peaks of Webpage access after of each newsletter.
Great peak of Webpage access after the launched of Influenza A (H1N1) lecture.
Professor in Mexico
Professor in Quito
Professor in Cali
Professor in Buenos Aires
Professor in San Salvador
Supercourse model: sharing lectures
Professor in USA
Visits to LatinAmerican Supercourse Web Page by
AreaArea n %
Epidemiology 859 23.1
Nursing 736 19.8
Global health 459 12.3
Public health 366 9.8
Addictions 301 8.1
Cardiovascular diseases 274 7.4
Disasters 257 6.8
Cancer 211 5.7
Nutrition and obesity 153 4.1
Diabetes 107 2.9
Total 3,723 100.0
Latin American Supercourse
Who use it?• Teachers and students from Schools of Nursing or
Medicine
• Nurses
• Epidemiologists
• Medical doctors
• Our global health network include all of them.
Latin American Supercourse
Quality evaluation• Our network evaluate the lectures in scale from 1
(bad) to 5 (excellent) in 5 parameters:• Content (4.86±0.52)*
• Relevance (4.87±0.48)*
• Quality of presentation (4.84±0.59)*
• Global rate (4.89±0.44)*
• Expected quality (4.81±0.59)*
* 6,000 evaluations
Just-In-Time lectures
An example of the usefulness of the Latin American Supercourse
April 16-23, 2009• News on Influenza A(H1N1) influenza cases in
Mexico.
April 26, 2009• Rashid A. Chotani, wrote first version in English
• After 4 hours in Spanish and Russian.
Updated lecture each 24 hours, by ten days, Translated in 14 languages.
CHOTANI © 2009. Version 1 Issued: 4/26/2009 11:55 PM. The lecture will be updated daily
Rashid A. Chotani, MD, MPH, DTMProfesor Asistente AdjuntoUniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (HSUHS)[email protected]
Conferencia Justo-en-TiempoBrote de Influenza porcina A (H1N1) en EUA y México: Potencial para una PandemiaDomingo, 26 de Abril del 2009
Conclusion
The LatinAmerican Supercourse is successful
It is a very important tool to health teachers
It is a very cheaper tool to continuous education in health.
It is a very inexpensive tool to improve training in Latin America
Thank you!!
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/index.htm
http://www.feoc.ugto.mx/super/curso.php