CAMDI II Workshop on Diabetes Surveillance and Control:
Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras & Nicaragua

CAMDI/DOTA

(Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 13–14 November 2000)

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Within the framework of National Diabetes Day activities, the PAHO Program on Non-Communicable Diseases—together with the Federation for the Diabetes Prevention of Honduras, the Ministry of Health of Honduras and PAHO Country Office of Honduras—conducted the Second Regional Workshop for Diabetes Surveillance and Control at the Princesa Hotel, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, from the 13th to the 14th of November, 2000. This workshop was part of an effort begun at the First Workshop held in San Salvador in March 1999, with representatives from Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and El Salvador .

General Objective: Coordinate activities related to the Multinational Survey on Diabetes, Obesity, Hypertension and Risk Factors for Non-Communicable Diseases.

Specific Objectives: Work on the survey design, including such details as the following:

  • Study organization
  • Study funding
  • Study sample
  • Questionnaire
  • Training interviewers
  • Field manual
  • Data-processing

Participants: Every country was represented by a multidisciplinary team made up of professionals from different areas. Furthermore, several members from the team came from the PAHO Program on Non-Communicable Diseases of PAHO, including the Program's focal point in Honduras.

Conclusions: Due to the increase in the prevalence of certain chronic diseases, increased surveillance has become necessary surveillance for the purpose of resource-planning and the implementation of preventive actions. Continuous disease surveillance is the ideal methodology to monitor the health situation among the population. The prevalence of diabetes and other chronic diseases is unknown in Central America. The surveillance systems for chronic disease are expensive and cumbersome, due to special features in the natural history of these diseases. Due to the lack of data, recommendations were made to continue with the planning of a multinational study, in order to know the prevalence of diabetes in the Central American capitals.