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Capitalizing on the Demographic Transition: Tackling Noncommunicable Diseases in South Asia

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  • Michael Maurice Engelgau
  • Sameh El-Saharty
  • Preeti Kudesia
  • Vikram Rajan
  • Sandra Rosenhouse
  • Kyoko Okamoto

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Increasing life expectancy in South Asia is resulting in a demographic transition that can, under the right circumstances, yield dividends through more favorable dependency ratios for a time. With aging, the disease burden shifts toward noncommunicable diseases (NCDs)1 which can threaten healthy aging. However, securing the gains expected from the demographic dividend—where developing countries’ working and nondependent population increases and per capita income thus rises— is both achievable and affordable through efficiently tacking NCDs with prevention and control efforts.

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  • Michael Maurice Engelgau & Sameh El-Saharty & Preeti Kudesia & Vikram Rajan & Sandra Rosenhouse & Kyoko Okamoto, 2011. "Capitalizing on the Demographic Transition: Tackling Noncommunicable Diseases in South Asia," Working Papers id:3595, eSocialSciences.
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    1. Khin Thet Swe & Md Mizanur Rahman & Md Shafiur Rahman & Eiko Saito & Sarah K Abe & Stuart Gilmour & Kenji Shibuya, 2018. "Cost and economic burden of illness over 15 years in Nepal: A comparative analysis," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(4), pages 1-14, April.
    2. Anne Maryse Pierre-Louis & Sameh El-Saharty & Anderson Stanciole & Olga Jonas & F. Brian Pascual & Robert Oelrichs & Montserrat Meiro Lorenzo & Tonya Villafana & Fernando Lavadenz & Marcia Rock, 2012. "Connecting Sectors and Systems for Health Results," World Bank Publications - Reports 26806, The World Bank Group.
    3. Anne Maryse Pierre-Louis & Katherina Ferl & Christina Dinh Wadhwani & Neesha Harnam & Montserrat Meiro-Lorenzo, 2014. "Setting the Stage to Address the Dual Challenge of MDGs and NCDs," Health, Nutrition and Population (HNP) Discussion Paper Series 100278, The World Bank.

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    dependency ratio; aging; developing countries; demographic dividend; per capita income; NCDs; population; healthy; south asia; life expentancy; demographic transition; disease burden;
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