The rise of noncommunicable diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean: Challenges for public health policies

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Anauati, Maria Victoria; Galiani, Sebastian; Weinschelbaum, Federico
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2015
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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 trade-off with labor informality and moral hazard problems. The paper also focuses on obesity as a case example of an 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.
Fil: Anauati, Maria Victoria. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de San Andrés; Argentina
Fil: Galiani, Sebastian. University of Maryland; Estados Unidos
Fil: Weinschelbaum, Federico. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de San Andrés; Argentina
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Health Insurance
Noncommunicable Diseases
Obesity
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The rise of noncommunicable diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean: Challenges for public health policies
title The rise of noncommunicable diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean: Challenges for public health policies
spellingShingle The rise of noncommunicable diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean: Challenges for public health policies
Anauati, Maria Victoria
Health Insurance
Noncommunicable Diseases
Obesity
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
title_fullStr The rise of noncommunicable diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean: Challenges for public health policies
title_full_unstemmed The rise of noncommunicable diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean: Challenges for public health policies
title_sort The rise of noncommunicable diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean: Challenges for public health policies
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Anauati, Maria Victoria
Galiani, Sebastian
Weinschelbaum, Federico
author Anauati, Maria Victoria
author_facet Anauati, Maria Victoria
Galiani, Sebastian
Weinschelbaum, Federico
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author2 Galiani, Sebastian
Weinschelbaum, Federico
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Health Insurance
Noncommunicable Diseases
Obesity
topic Health Insurance
Noncommunicable Diseases
Obesity
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dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv 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 trade-off with labor informality and moral hazard problems. The paper also focuses on obesity as a case example of an 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.
Fil: Anauati, Maria Victoria. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de San Andrés; Argentina
Fil: Galiani, Sebastian. University of Maryland; Estados Unidos
Fil: Weinschelbaum, Federico. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de San Andrés; Argentina
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