Targeting chronic disease problem in Mexico with Latin American Supercourse

Dr. Nicolas Padilla-Raygoza

University of GuanajuatoCampus Celaya Salvatierra

raygosan@ugto.mx

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)240-367-5370chotani@gmail.com

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