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dc.creatorAnauati, Maria Victoria
dc.creatorGaliani, Sebastián
dc.creatorWeinschelbaum, Federico
dc.date.issued2015-11-11
dc.identifier.issn2196-436X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11651/3245
dc.descriptionNoncommunicable diseases, obesity, health insurance
dc.description.abstractThe 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.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherCentro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas
dc.relation.ispartofLatin American Economic Review, volumen 24, número 1, noviembre de 2015
dc.rightsLa revista Latin American Economic Review autoriza a poner en acceso abierto de conformidad con las licencias CREATIVE COMMONS, aprobadas por el Consejo Académico Administrativo del CIDE, las cuales establecen los parámetros de difusión de las obras con fines no comerciales. Lo anterior sin perjuicio de los derechos morales que corresponden a los autores.
dc.source2196-436X
dc.titleThe rise of noncommunicable diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean: challenges for public health policies
dc.typeArtículo
dc.accessrightsAcceso abierto
dc.recordIdentifier000003245
dc.rights.licenseCreative Commons Reconocimiento-NoComercial-SinObraDerivada 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND
dc.identifier.citationEn: Latin American Economic Review, volumen 24, número 1, noviembre de 2015
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s40503-015-0025-7
dc.identifier.urlhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40503-015-0025-7


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