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

Autores
Anauati, María Victoria; Galiani, Sebastián; Weinschelbaum, Federico
Año de publicación
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 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.
Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)
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Ciencias Económicas
noncommunicable diseases, obesity, health insurance
América Latina
Salud Pública
JEL: I12, I13, I18
Región del Caribe
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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, María Victoria
Ciencias Económicas
noncommunicable diseases, obesity, health insurance
América Latina
Salud Pública
JEL: I12, I13, I18
Región del Caribe
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, María Victoria
Galiani, Sebastián
Weinschelbaum, Federico
author Anauati, María Victoria
author_facet Anauati, María Victoria
Galiani, Sebastián
Weinschelbaum, Federico
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author2 Galiani, Sebastián
Weinschelbaum, Federico
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ciencias Económicas
noncommunicable diseases, obesity, health insurance
América Latina
Salud Pública
JEL: I12, I13, I18
Región del Caribe
topic Ciencias Económicas
noncommunicable diseases, obesity, health insurance
América Latina
Salud Pública
JEL: I12, I13, I18
Región del Caribe
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Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)
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