The Rise of Noncommunicable Diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean: Challenges for Public Health Policies

The health landscape in Latin America and the Caribbean is changing quickly. The region is undergoing a demographic and epidemiological transition in which health problems are highly concentrated on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). In light of this, the region faces two main challenges: (1) develop...

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Autores principales:	Anauati, María Victoria, Galiani, Sebastián, Weinschelbaum, Federico
Formato:	Articulo Documento de trabajo
Lenguaje:	Inglés
Publicado:	2015
Materias:	Ciencias Económicas noncommunicable diseases, obesity, health insurance América Latina Salud Pública JEL: I12, I13, I18 Región del Caribe
Acceso en línea:	http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/51615 http://cedlas.econo.unlp.edu.ar/download.php?file=archivos_upload/doc_cedlas186.pdf
Aporte de:	SEDICI (UNLP) de Universidad Nacional de La Plata

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spellingShingle	Ciencias Económicas noncommunicable diseases, obesity, health insurance América Latina Salud Pública JEL: I12, I13, I18 Región del Caribe Anauati, María Victoria Galiani, Sebastián Weinschelbaum, Federico The Rise of Noncommunicable Diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean: Challenges for Public Health Policies
topic_facet	Ciencias Económicas noncommunicable diseases, obesity, health insurance América Latina Salud Pública JEL: I12, I13, I18 Región del Caribe
description	The health landscape in Latin America and the Caribbean is changing quickly. The region is undergoing a demographic and epidemiological transition in which health problems are highly concentrated on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). In light of this, the region faces two main challenges: (1) develop cost-effective policies to prevent NCD risk factors, and (2) increase access to quality healthcare in a scenario in which a large share of the labor force is employed in the informal sector. This paper describes both alternative interventions to expand health insurance coverage and their tradeoff with labor informality and moral hazard problems. The paper also focuses on obesity as a case example of a NCD, and emphasizes how lack of knowledge along with self-control problems would lead people to make suboptimal decisions related to food consumption, which may later manifest in obesity problems.
format	Articulo Documento de trabajo
author	Anauati, María Victoria Galiani, Sebastián Weinschelbaum, Federico
author_facet	Anauati, María Victoria Galiani, Sebastián Weinschelbaum, Federico
author_sort	Anauati, María Victoria
title	The Rise of Noncommunicable Diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean: Challenges for Public Health Policies
title_short	The Rise of Noncommunicable Diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean: Challenges for Public Health Policies
title_full	The Rise of Noncommunicable Diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean: Challenges for Public Health Policies
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url	http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/51615 http://cedlas.econo.unlp.edu.ar/download.php?file=archivos_upload/doc_cedlas186.pdf
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The Rise of Noncommunicable Diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean: Challenges for Public Health Policies

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