Saturday, August 13, 2011

What is Happening and Its Implications (cont...)

Implications

These findings have major implications for South Asia. Aging will not only increase NCDs, but with it occurring rapidly and without associated economic gains nor social support systems, it can lead to unhealthy aging.
the unhealthy aging characterized by three concepts:

1)Disability and premature death—resulting more quickly in less favorable dependency ratios.

2)The shift of the disease burden toward NCDs—while a significant burden remains of maternal


3) child health and nutrition issues—will increase demand on the health system
because of the need to address this double-disease burden.

Many households may well forgo treatment and suffer excessively, or skew their expenditure patterns from other human development investments such as education (or adopt a combination of the two approaches).

As rural populations shift toward urban areas they will experience changes in lifestyles that may increase their NCD risks. Extreme poverty and fetal and early childhood undernutrition, both from the current situation and from past exposures, will create a large pool of those at elevated risk.

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