Caribbean Wellness Day: promoting a region-wide day of action
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Abstract
In response to the epidemic of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in the Caribbean, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government issued the 2007 Port-of-Spain Declaration (the POS Declaration), "Uniting to Stop the Epidemic of Chronic Non-communicable Diseases" (1 -5).To commemorate this landmark summit, the Heads declared the second Saturday in September as "Caribbean Wellness Day" (CWD).The CWD mandate is a public call-to-action that seeks to inspire CARICOM Member States to engage in an 'all-of-society' response to NCDs and their risk factors.Understanding how this initiative has mobilized societies across the Caribbean provides valuable lessons for other region-wide initiatives.CARICOM and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) were ABSTRACTIn response to the epidemic of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in the Caribbean, the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) issued the 2007 Port-of-Spain Declaration, "Uniting to Stop the Epidemic of Chronic Non-communicable Diseases" and declared the second Saturday in September to be "Caribbean Wellness Day" (CWD).CWD is a call-to-action for engaging the population of the Member States in confronting NCDs and their risk factors.This report reviews the genesis, implementation, and institutionalization of CWD in CARICOM and beyond.The study used quantitative and qualitative methods, including 29 surveys, 7 in-depth interviews, and analysis of media content.Data was provided by NCD focal points at the Ministry of Health in 15 CARICOM countries, as well as by 7 nongovernmental and 4 private organizations.Branding materials were well received and locally adapted; much of CWD media content originated from organization websites and were not community-based.Events typically focused on physical activity and health screenings and were attended by up to 3 000 participants.Though most were held in city centers, some CWD activities have involved rural and indigenous populations.CWD has become a catalyst for multisectoral engagement and health promotion activities.Inspired by CWD, PAHO initiated "Wellness Week in the Americas," which includes CWD and promotes its tenets across the Region of the Americas.As CWD further develops, consideration should be given to reliable, adequate, and sustainable financing; to measuring and evaluating its impact on NCDs; and to widening its reach to include those outside of city centers.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.007 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.017 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".