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Integrating Herbal Medicine into the health care system: proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Herbal Medicines in the Caribbean, July 19-22, 2001, Green Parrot Hotel, Castries, St. Lucia
Jamaica's ethnomedicine: its potential in the healthcare system
Herbal remedies have always been used by Jamaicans for treating a variety of illnesses. However, although many of these medicinal herbs contain beneficial bioactive ingredients, not all of them are safe! Some have toxic components while others, if taken inappropriately, can harm the body's organs and eve...
Breaking the glass ceiling: the stories of three Caribbean nurses
The history of nursing and those who shaped the profession and health care has been an interest of mine for as long as I can remember. For many years, I taught courses in the history of nursing to nursing students in Canada. Consequently, within recent years, with the formation of history of nursing asso...
Obesity and poverty: a new public health challenge
Throughout history, obesity and overweight have been underestimated as public health problems in Latin America and the Caribbean. Both conditions are on the rise in the region, however, although this is difficult to measure, given the fact that the studies that have been carried out are not very represen...