Table of Contents
Special issue: Public health themes in Grenada and the Caribbean Region I
Editors: Lindonne Glasgow and Joav Merrick
EDITORIAL
Public health in the Caribbean countries
Lindonne Glasgow and Joav Merrick
REVIEW RESEARCH
Responding to COVID-19 in the Caribbean through the novel tourism and health program in the Caribbean
Lisa Indar, Ornella Cyrus, Frieda Mohammed, Cecilia Lesueur, and Jonathan Edwin
White paper on vaping: Electronic cigarettes use – A case for restrictive policies in Grenada, West Indies
Christine Richards, Lindonne Glasgow, Satesh Bidaisee, Prakash Ramdass, Tolulope Oladimeji, Marios Loukas, and Emmanuel Keku
Protecting health security in the Caribbean: A coordinated regional response to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and other global public health threats
Stephanie Fletcher-Lartey, Lisa Indar, Tamu Davidson, Gabriel Gonzalez Escobar, and Joy St John
ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Breast Cancer in Grenada, West Indies: A trend analysis of newly diagnosed Breast cancer cases for the period 2001-2010
Lindsey Moll, Moza Hamud, Victoria Watkins, Megan Ostlie, Zachary Kassirer, Kai Wang, Vanessa Denny, Tolulope Oladimeji, and Emmanuel Keku
Epidemiologic surveillance of amputation in Grenada, 2010-2017
Shawn Charles and Lindonne Glasgow
Hazard and risk assessment of rainwater harvesting systems in Carriacou, Grenada
Lindonne Glasgow and Jeremy Mendes
Prevalence of metabolic syndrome and obesity among adults in Aruba
Prakash VAK Ramdass, Taisha Ford, Rita Alexander, Tanveer Sidhu, Chigozie F Ogbonnia, and Angela Gomez
Overweight and obesity among Grenadian adolescents
Richard Scribner, Roger Radix, Trevor Noel, Rebecca Andal, Naomi Andal, Christal Radix, Rhoda Frank, Jonell Benjamin, Jennifer James, Romero Benjamin, Claudia Leonardi, and Melinda Sothern
Active aging: WINDREF’s sports for health program among the elderly in Grenada, West Indies
Satesh Bidaisee, Christina Wilson, and Calum NL Macpherson
Analysis of urine samples for antimicrobial resistance profiles in Grenada, 2015-2018
Michael J Montalbano, Shawn Charles, and Lindonne Glasgow