Documentos e informes
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The Healthy Longevity Initiative: Key Insights for Policy and Action (Inglés)
The global demographic landscape is at a crossroads, with rapid declines in fertility and aging populations holding profound implications for employment, social services, and wellbeing. Population aging...
Tipo de documento: Informe Número del informe: 193500 Fecha del documento: 27 de septiembre de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Sameera Maziad Al Tuwaijri,Jha, Prabhat,Alleyne,George,Isenman, Paul,Saadat, Seemeen,Garcia, Gisela,Jeremy Veillard
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Unlocking the Power of Healthy Longevity: Demographic Change, Non-communicable Diseases, and Human Capital (Main Report) (Inglés)
The World Bank has a long history of engaging in population issues, ranging from childhood illness, nutrition, fertility, and safe motherhood to the aging process. It supports countries in addressing the...
Tipo de documento: Informe Número del informe: 193428 Fecha del documento: 12 de septiembre de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: World Bank
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Gender Gaps in Health and Well-being of Older Adults: A Review of the Burden of Non-communicable Diseases and Barriers to Healthcare for Women and Men (Chapter 8) in Compendium of Research for Healthy Longevity (Inglés)
Women and men experience aging differently. Evidence from across the globe suggests that aging is not “gender-neutral”, but rather “gender-imbalanced”. Along with physical and physiological differences...
Tipo de documento: Informe Número del informe: 193512 Fecha del documento: 1 de septiembre de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Seemeen Saadat,Meriem Boudjadja,Sameera Maziad Al Tuwaijri
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Taxation of Harmful Products, Including Tobacco, Alcohol and Sugar-Sweetened Beverages (SSBs), and Related Topics (Chapter 7) in Unlocking the Power of Healthy Longevity: Compendium of Research for the Healthy Longevity Initiative (Inglés)
Even as human beings are living longer and generally healthier lives, consumption of tobacco, alcohol, and processed foods with high sugar content are causing substantial death and disease. In recent decades...
Tipo de documento: Informe Número del informe: 193511 Fecha del documento: 1 de septiembre de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Paraje, Guillermo,Jha, Prabhat,Savedoff, William,Alan Fuchs
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Demand for and Supply of Longterm Care for Older Persons in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (Chapter 11) in Unlocking the Power of Healthy Longevity: Compendium of Research for the Healthy Longevity Initiative (Inglés)
In virtually all countries across the world, the population is aging, and consequently, both the number and proportion of older people are growing. Notably, the aging process is accelerating at a more...
Tipo de documento: Informe Número del informe: 193515 Fecha del documento: 1 de septiembre de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Elena Glinskaya,Xiaohui Hou,Feng, Zhanlian,Angrisani, Marco,Suarez, Guadalupe,Jigyasa Sharma,Phillips, Drystan,Wilkens, Jenny,Lee, Jinkook,Yoo, Yeeun Lee,Lau, Samuel,Park, Hae Yeun,Chen, Yizhou
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Priority Setting for NCD Control and Health System Investments (Chapter 15) in Unlocking the Power of Healthy Longevity: Compendium of Research for the Healthy Longevity Initiative (Inglés)
As underscored in several background papers developed for the Healthy Longevity Initiative (HLI) Commission, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) represent a major and growing threat to the health of the world’s...
Tipo de documento: Informe Número del informe: 193520 Fecha del documento: 1 de septiembre de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Watkins, David,Ahmed, Sali,Pickersgill, Sarah
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Behavioral Aspects of Healthy Longevity (Chapter 6) in Unlocking the Power of Healthy Longevity: Compendium of Research for the Healthy Longevity Initiative (Inglés)
Poor health in old age comes at a high cost for individuals, households, and societies. Increases in life expectancy across countries have not always added years of healthy life. Accordingly, health promotion...
Tipo de documento: Informe Número del informe: 193510 Fecha del documento: 1 de septiembre de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Ana Maria Rojas Mendez,Ana Maria Munoz Boudet,Moscoe, Ellen,Jamison, Julian,Herl, Carlos Riumallo
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Health and Long-Term Care Needs in a Context of Rapid Population Aging (Chapter 10) in Unlocking the Power of Healthy Longevity: Compendium of Research for the Healthy Longevity Initiative (Inglés)
Population aging is a global phenomenon: people all over the world are living longer. Undoubtedly, this is good news. Extended longevity reflects the social and economic progress of societies; it is the...
Tipo de documento: Informe Número del informe: 193514 Fecha del documento: 1 de septiembre de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Araújo, Natalia Aranco,Gisela M. Garcia
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Productive Longevity : What Can Work in Low- and Middle-income Countries? (Chapter 13) in Unlocking the Power of Healthy Longevity: Compendium of Research for the Healthy Longevity Initiative (Inglés)
The world’s population is aging at a dramatic speed, raising concerns for how to maintain income and productivity growth, improve the welfare of older people, and help them contribute to society. By 2050...
Tipo de documento: Informe Número del informe: 193518 Fecha del documento: 1 de septiembre de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Sara Johansson de Silva,Indhira Vanessa Santos
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Gendered Responsibilities, Elderly Care, and Labor Supply : Evidence from Four Middle-income Countries (Chapter 9) in Unlocking the Power of Healthy Longevity: Compendium of Research for the Healthy Longevity Initiative (Inglés)
The world’s population is aging. The World Health Organization (WHO) predicts that, in 2030, 1 in 6 persons worldwide will be aged 60 years or over. This study explores the relationship between providing...
Tipo de documento: Informe Número del informe: 193513 Fecha del documento: 1 de septiembre de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Gatti, Roberta,Daniel Halim,Hardiman, Allen,Shuqiao Sun
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Exploring the Labour Market Outcomes of the Risk Factors for Non-communicable Diseases : A Systematic Review (Chapter 12) in Unlocking the Power of Healthy Longevity: Compendium of Research for the Healthy Longevity Initiative (Inglés)
Globally, 41 million people die from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) every year (World Health Organization 2022a). This accounts for approximately 74 percent of all deaths (World Health Organization 2022a)...
Tipo de documento: Informe Número del informe: 193516 Fecha del documento: 1 de septiembre de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Chakraborty, Debapriya,Wu, Daphne,Jha, Prabhat
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Healthy Longevity Initiative : A Performance Dashboard for Decision-Making in Low- and Middle- Income Countries (Chapter 17) in Unlocking the Power of Healthy Longevity: Compendium of Research for the Healthy Longevity Initiative (Inglés)
As the global population rapidly ages, there is a pressing need for approaches to promote health, well-being, and productivity across the life course (Beard and Bloom 2015; Bloom and Sousa-Poza 2013)...
Tipo de documento: Informe Número del informe: 193522 Fecha del documento: 1 de septiembre de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Haldane, Victoria,Gisela M. Garcia,Bockarie, Tahir,Wu, Daphne,Herrera, Cristian A.,Castro, Maria Luisa Latorre,Chakraborty, Debapriya,Essue, Beverly,Jha, Prabhat,Jeremy Veillard
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Rates of Progress in Mortality Decline, 2000-2019 (Chapter 5) in Unlocking the Power of Healthy Longevity: Compendium of Research for the Healthy Longevity Initiative (Inglés)
The progress in mortality reduction not only varies by age, but also over time. The mortality rates decreased notably faster for ages under 70 during 1990-2010 compared to after 2010, at least in Low middle...
Tipo de documento: Informe Número del informe: 193509 Fecha del documento: 1 de septiembre de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Wu, Daphne C.,Chakraborty, Debapriya,Hum, Ryan,Jha, Prabhat,Jamison, Dean T.
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Control of Non-Communicable Diseases for Enhanced Human Capital : The Case for Whole-of-Society Action (Chapter 16) in Unlocking the Power of Healthy Longevity: Compendium of Research for the Healthy Longevity Initiative (Inglés)
This chapter has been prepared as background to the Healthy Longevity Initiative (HLI), under the ambit of the Health, Nutrition, and Population (HNP) Global Practice of the World Bank Group (WBG). Under...
Tipo de documento: Informe Número del informe: 193521 Fecha del documento: 1 de septiembre de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Ramesh Govindaraj,Gopalan, Sundararajan Srinivasa
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The Economic Value of Avoidable Mortality (Chapter 3 – Web Appendix) in Unlocking the Power of Healthy Longevity (Inglés)
Disease burden is commonly measured using a variety of health statistics, including deaths by cause, injury and disease prevalence and incidence, and disability-adjusted life years. While these metrics...
Tipo de documento: Informe Número del informe: 193507 Fecha del documento: 31 de agosto de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Chang, Angela Y.,Stevens, Gretchen A.,Cardoso, Diego S.,Cao, Bochen,Jamison, Dean T.
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Assessing Human Capital, Non-communicable Diseases, and Healthy Longevity in Low- and Middle-Income Countries : Healthy Longevity Dashboard and the Case for India (Chapter 18) in Compendium of Research for Healthy Longevity (Inglés)
Coordinated efforts are needed globally to emphasize the importance of healthy longevity on both health and well-being. The concept of healthy longevity describes a process of ageing that promotes human...
Tipo de documento: Informe Número del informe: 193523 Fecha del documento: 31 de agosto de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Wu, Daphne C.,Jeremy Veillard,Haldane, Victoria,Seemeen Saadat,Jha, Prabhat
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Unlocking the Power of Healthy Longevity: Compendium of Research for the Healthy Longevity Initiative (Full Document) (Inglés)
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are among the major health and development challenges of our time. Every year, about 41 million people die due to NCDs. This makes up about 74 percent of all deaths globally...
Tipo de documento: Informe Número del informe: 193504 Fecha del documento: 1 de agosto de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Jha,Prabhat,Alleyne,George,Isenman,Paul,Gisela M. Garcia,Seemeen Saadat,Jeremy Veillard,Sameera Maziad Al Tuwaijri
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Gender Gaps in Healthy Longevity: Outcomes, Barriers, and Implications (Inglés)
Gender gaps in access to, and use of health and long-term care services affect both women and men, albeit differently. While male mortality due to key non-communicable diseases (NCDs), particularly in...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 193503 Fecha del documento: 31 de julio de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Seemeen Saadat,Meriem Boudjadja,Sameera Maziad Al Tuwaijri
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Projected Impact of Population Aging on Non-communicable Disease Burden and Costs in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 2020–2030 (Inglés)
The number of people aged greater than 65 years per 100 people aged 20–64 years is expected to almost double in The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) between 2020 and 2030. We therefore aimed to quantify the...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 191915 Fecha del documento: 26 de junio de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Boettige, David C.,Lin, Tracy Kuo,Almansour, Maram,Hamza, Mariam M,Reem Alsukait,Christopher H. Herbst,Altheyab, Nada,Afghan, Ayman,Kattan, Faisal
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Silver Opportunity - Case Studies : Experiences with Building Integrated Services for Older Adults around Primary Health Care (Inglés)
Health care systems must be prepared to address the expanding and complex needs of an aging population. Rather than a “silver challenge,” this situation should be seen as an opportunity to reevaluate and...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 191077 Fecha del documento: 11 de junio de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Xiaohui Hou,Jigyasa Sharma,Feng Zhao