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标题：The rise of noncommunicable diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean: challenges for public health policies
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作者：Maria Victoria Anauati ; Sebastian Galiani ; Federico Weinschelbaum 等
期刊名称：Latin American Economic Review
印刷版ISSN：2198-3526
电子版ISSN：2196-436X
出版年度：2015
卷号：24
期号：1
页码：1-56
DOI：10.1007/s40503-015-0025-7
出版社：Springer Verlag
摘要：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.
关键词：Noncommunicable diseases; Obesity; Health insurance; I12; I13; I18