Lecture 5 Flashcards
Rising trend of NCD
- aging populations
- rapid and uplanned urbanization
- globalisation
- increasing sedentary lifestyle
world aging because
- life expectancies have been increasing around the world (mortality rates declined)
- fertility rates have been falling around the world.
Increased life expectancy
- better sanitation
- improved nutrition
- medical advances
fertility rates declined
- availability of contraception
- increased women’s labor force participation
- declining infant mortality
- decreased need for children as breadwinners or caretakers
compression of morbidity
the phenomenon of disability and illness being delayed or compressed into the end of life
‘best buy’
highly cost effective and also cheap, feasible and culturally acceptable
(providing an extra year of healthy life for less thanthe average income per person (less than one x GDP))
‘good buy’
is cost effective, provides an extra year of healthy life for less than three times GDP per capita
mental health
the state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work produtively and fruitfully, and is able to make contribution to his or her community
Indirect costs for treating mental disorders
3 groups
1. impact of mental illness on physical illnes
late/inadequate treatment of physical illness
- absenteeism due to illness
presenteeism
unemployment
3. crime (domestic violence) child abuse and neglect divorce traffic accients homelesness
Outcomes impact of uncoditional cash transfers to the poor
- positive impact on monthly nondurable consumption
- no impact on temptation goods
- positive impact on assets
- no impact on health
- no impact on education
- mental illness gets better over time when providing households money
