September 10 is Global suicide prevention day. This year’s theme is ‘Working together to prevent Suicide’. This theme highlights our collective role in preventing suicide and reducing harm in our community.
Save the date for September 19, when the biennial national baby show overall winners will be announced.
Tanga’eo is the weekly communication piece of Te Marae Ora Cook Islands Ministry of Health (TMO) for our people. The burden of disease with the NCDs/obesity epidemic alongside the impact of climate change, threatens the health of the Cook Islands population as well as planetary health. Tanga’eo is a call to action. Tanga’eo is for the people of the Cook Islands.
Over the past year, Te Marae Ora – Cook Islands Ministry of Health (TMO) has established and developed the flying doctors and dentists programme, in to what is now a more integrated, structured, and comprehensive mobile health service: Kaveinga Ora.
With the aging population, alcohol and drug problems, mental health and offending, developmental disorder and suicide prevention remain high on the priority list, as the team maps out its strategic direction for the future.
There are many current population health challenges, one of these is the challenge of ensuring suitable health care for our elderly.
The people of the Cook Islands have 100% access to basic drinking water services, however this achievement does not indicate the quality of the drinking water.
Over the Easter holidays we had two motorcycle crash-related hospital admissions involving young people, one of whom was referred from Aitutaki. Both incidents were associated with alcohol.
Since declaring DENV-1 in Rarotonga earlier this year, dengue notifications to the Ministry of Health now total 24 cases (18 confirmed, six probable) with half being female.
Participants learned of the different types of EMTs that can be created for the Cook Islands and also, international EMTs that can be requested in the event of emergency.
