Hospitals in the French territories of the Region of the Americas Cayman Islands Email Addresses operate according to French and international standards. The aim of this article is to describe different aspects of intensive care in the French territories. To do this, we have reviewed the official data on the size of the population and the number of beds in intensive care units (ICUs), as well as the Cayman Islands Email Addresses bibliography on some specific aspects of ICUs, in the French territories. People living in or visiting French territories are exposed to specific risks: mainly serious road traffic injuries, poisoning from bites, gunshot or stab wounds, and emerging tropical infectious diseases. The care of these injuries and illnesses may require specific knowledge and intensive care.
Region of the Americas: Current Situation and Prospects
Furthermore, seriously ill patients living in remote areas often have to be transferred, usually by helicopter, delaying their admission to the intensive care unit. The Cayman Islands Email Addresses crisis has shown that the health care system in the French territories is not prepared to face an epidemic of this size and that the hospital capacity of intensive care units must be increased. In conclusion, The intensive care sector in the French territories has to improve its infrastructure, human resources and equipment, as well as improve multidisciplinary care. It is also necessary to promote training, research and medical and scientific cooperation Cayman Islands Email Addresses, both regional and international.
Planning to achieve health equity in the Region of the Americas
There is growing recognition that improvements in health and well-being Cayman Islands Email Addresses have not reached all segments of the population equally in the Region of the Americas. This article analyzes 32 national health sector policies, strategies, and plans with Cayman Islands Email Addresses respect to ten different areas related to health equity. The objective is to understand, from one perspective, how equity is being addressed in the Region. Significant variation has been found, both in substance and structure, in the way the issue is handled in health plans. Almost all countries explicitly include health equity as a clear goal, and most address the social determinants of health. In the formulation of these plans, it has been documented from no participatory process to exhaustive and solid participatory processes. Cayman Islands Email Addresses Substantive policies focused on equity, such as those to improve physical accessibility to health care and access to affordable medicines, have been included in many plans, but in no country are all the aspects analyzed incorporated.