Promoting Healthy Living in Latin America and the Caribbean : Governance of Multisectoral Activities to Prevent Risk Factors for Noncommunicable Diseases.
Title:
Promoting Healthy Living in Latin America and the Caribbean : Governance of Multisectoral Activities to Prevent Risk Factors for Noncommunicable Diseases.
Author:
Bonilla-Chacín, María Eugenia.
ISBN:
9781464800177
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (217 pages)
Series:
Directions in Development - Human Development
Contents:
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Abbreviations -- Overview -- The Health and Economic Burden of NCDs in LAC -- Risk Factors for NCDs in LAC -- International Experience in Multisectoral Interventions to Prevent Health Risk Factors: Overcoming Governance Challenges Involved in Their Design and Implementation -- Multisectoral Interventions to Prevent Health Risk Factors in LAC-The Unfinished Agenda -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Introduction -- Note -- Bibliography -- Chapter 1 Noncommunicable Diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean -- Who Is Most Affected? -- Differences in NCD Death Rates by Sex -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 Risk Factors for NCDs in Latin America and the Caribbean -- Underlying Factors -- Modifiable Behavioral Risk Factors -- Intermediate Risk Factors -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 Economic Impact of NCDs in Latin America and the Caribbean -- Household Out-of-Pocket and Catastrophic Health Expenditures Associated with NCDs -- Noncommunicable Diseases and Labor-Market Outcomes: Evidence from Selected Latin American Countries -- The Economic Cost of NCDs to Health Systems in the Region -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 Governance of Multisectoral Interventions to Promote Healthy Living: International Examples -- The Health Sector's Role -- Multisectoral Interventions to Prevent Risk Factors -- Interventions to Promote Healthy Diets -- Interventions to Promote Physical Activity -- Community-Based Interventions to Promote Healthy Diets and Increase Physical Activity -- Tobacco-Control Policies -- Alcohol-Control Policies -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5 Multisectoral Interventions to Promote Healthy Living in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Argentina: Amending the Food Code to Regulate Trans Fats and Agreements between the Government and the Food Industry to Reduce Sodium in Processed Foods -- Bogotá, Colombia: A City with a Built Environment that Promotes Physical Activity -- Mexico: National Agreement on Food Health, Strategy against Overweight and Obesity -- Uruguay: Tobacco-Control Policies -- Argentina: Tobacco-Control Policies -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6 Lessons Learned and Agenda for the Future -- International and Regional Experiences with Multisectoral Interventions to Prevent Health Risk Factors-Lessons for LAC -- Unfinished Agenda for LAC -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Appendix A Survey Sources, Health Status Surveyed, and Information on NCDs and Disability, for Brazil, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, and Honduras, Various Years -- Appendix B Dietary Analysis Methodology -- Notes -- Box -- Figures -- Tables -- Back Cover.
Abstract:
The Latin American and Caribbean region has been undergoing a rapid demographic and epidemiological transition, which has had important health and economic consequences. Not only is the population aging rapidly, it is also experiencing major lifestyle changes. These changes, in turn, have altered the disease and mortality profile of the region, resulting in a greater weight of noncommunicable diseases-such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, and diabetes-within the overall disease burden. As they affect more and more people, noncommunicable diseases pose a growing economic and development threat to households, health systems, and economies. Part of this health and economic burden can be avoided, however. An important share of such diseases is attributable to preventable risk factors, such as an unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, tobacco use, and alcohol abuse-the leading health risk factors in most of the region. This book outlines the design and implementation of policies that would promote healthy living in the region, thus effectively preventing premature mortality from noncommunicable diseases. Reducing the exposure to these risks factors at the society level requires the concerted effort of stakeholders from a variety of sectors; therefore, the decision-making process presents challenges to policy makers and other health advocates. International experience has shown that overcoming these challenges often requires negotiation and dialogue among all interested parties, the mobilization of public opinion, reliance on information and research, the leadership and political commitment of key political figures, and institutional arrangements that favor multisectoral coordination and take advantage of favorable conditions, among others. Promoting Healthy Living in Latin America and the Caribbean reviews the design and implementation processes of
several successful or promising international examples as well as some regional ones; specifically, the agreement between the government and industry to reduce sodium in processed foods and to reform the Food Code to reduce trans fats in Argentina; a built environment that promotes physical activity in Bogotá, Colombia; the National Agreements for Food Health in Mexico; and the tobacco-control policies in Uruguay.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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