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Healthy Economies
Making the Case for Investment
6th APEC High-Level Meeting on Health & the Economy
Advancing in the Implementation of the Healthy Asia Pacific 2020 to Support the
2030 Sustainable Development Goals August 21, 2016 Lima, Peru
+ & Better
health
More equal
opportunity
+ Human
capital
Poverty
reduction
- health
Cost
explosion
Inequitable,
inefficient, poor
quality services
- economic
development
+ Poverty
+ productivity &
competitiveness
(Frenk, 1993)
Unproductive expenditure on
health: Vicious Circle
Lower
productivity &
competitiveness
Inflation
1950: 28/100
1990: <10/100
2013: 4/100
Source:
Stephen L. Cochi et al. J Infect Dis. 2014;210:S1-S4. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2014. This work is written
by (a) US Government employee(s) and is in the public domain in the US.
Haidong Wang*, Chelsea A Liddell, Matthew M Coates, 2014.Global, regional, and national levels of neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality during 19902013: a systematic
analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013. Lancet 2014; Vol 384 September 13.
Japan
China
Vietnam
Peru
alia
r
t
s
Canada Au
Mexico
USA
Stewardship
Financing
Delivery
Resource
Generation and
evidence
building
Primary
Prevention
Secondary
prevention/
early
detection
Diagnosis
Treatment
Survivorship/
Rehabilitation
Palliation/
End-of-life care
Outline
1. Healthy Economies
Areas of opportunity
1.Chronic illness: cancer
2.
Adults
Breast
Cervix
Leukemia
LOW
INCOME
HIGH
INCOME
LOW
INCOME
HIGH
INCOME
100% die
2-
Diagonalizing:
Implementation
Harness anti-poverty, maternal and
child health, SRH, HIV and other
large programs for cancer education,
prevention, treatment & survivorship
Integrate cancer care and control into
national health reform, insurance and
social security programs
Outline
1. Healthy Economies
2. Area of opportunity
Healthy Women, healthy economies
Women are
the motors of economic growth
who also
produce the majority of both
paid and unpaid health care.
Yet, health systems are disabling
instead of enabling women.
Panama
Jamaica
Ecuador
United States
Argentina
Uruguay
Guyana
Canada
Men
Dominican Rep.
Paraguay
Trinidad & T.
El Salvador
Nicaragua
Colombia
300
Peru
Costa Rica
Guatemala
Honduras
Venezuela
Brazil
Mexico
200
100
Women in Medicine
Women as % of all physicians 1980-2012, select countries
50
Australia
40
Canada
Czech
Republi
c
Denmark
30
Israel
20
Portugal
United
Kingdom
United States
2012
2010
2005
2000
1995
1990
1985
10
1980
60
40
68%
49%
54%
43%
20
0
1990
Quantitative
unemployment (hours)
2000
2014
2014
Qualitative unemployment
(Other activities)
Inactivity and/or
unemployment
Source: Own estimates based on Labor force Surveys. Encuesta Nacional de Empleo, INEGI, 1990, 2000 & 2014: and
Encuesta Nacional de Hogares 2014, Peru.
PAID:
51.2%
UNPAID:
48.8%
MEN
Domestic work
Work outside
of the home
20
R&R
12
hours/da
y
Source: Own estimates based on INEGI 2012 and CEPAL..
56
WOMEN
r?
&
t
s
e
6 /da
R
s
r
u
o
y
h
41
41
42
Reduced
economic
growth
Unhealthy children
learn less and adults
are less productive
Less
education
Inequality of
opportunities
Unhealthy, poor,
disenfranchised women
produce less health care
More
poverty
Less money to
invest in health and
human development
More equitable
opportunities
Poverty
reduction
More economic
growth means more
money to invest in
health and human
development
More health is
produced for men,
women and children
Children learn
better and adults
are more
productive
Health challenges
can be converted into
opportunities
to promote
economic and human
development.