A Race Against Time:the Challenge of Cardiovascular Disease in Developing Economies

Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 3
Contents......Page 12
Forewords......Page 5
Definitions......Page 14
Abbreviations......Page 15
Introduction......Page 16
A-1. Origins and rationale of this report......Page 19
B-1. What are the global data?......Page 22
C-1. Methods and demographic profiles......Page 27
C-2. Overall CVD experience in the five study and two comparator countries......Page 33
C-3a. Mortality concentration in people of working age......Page 35
C-3b. Workforce CVD mortality projections to 2030......Page 40
C-3c. Higher morbidity in working ages......Page 43
C-3d. CVD and women’s health......Page 45
C-3e. Widowhood......Page 47
C-3f. What will happen if CVD risk factors get better or worse?......Page 48
The macroeconomic and economic consequences of CVD......Page 54
D-1. Years of potentially productive life lost......Page 55
D-2 Disability adjusted life years lost......Page 59
D-3. Disability......Page 60
D-4. Direct health care costs......Page 62
D-5. Household viability and dependency......Page 65
Intervention strategies to reduce the impact of CVD......Page 69
E-1a. Macro economic and whole-of-government interventions that affect everyone4......Page 70
E-1b. Population-based interventions......Page 72
E-1c. Provider-based prevention......Page 76
E-2a. The costs of clinic-based risk factor interventions......Page 83
E-2. Practicalities of CVD prevention......Page 81
F-1. The socio-political context: instituting change in civil societies......Page 87
F-2. CVD as a macroeconomic challen......Page 91
F-2a. Who should be at the table?......Page 92
F-2b. What should be on the agenda?......Page 93
F-2c. What resource pools do national leaders need to mobilize?......Page 94
Conclusions......Page 95
G-2. Deeper documentation of the prevalence and costs of CVD......Page 96
G-5. Undertaking trial treatment and prevention interventions......Page 97
G-6. Longer term research and interventions......Page 98
Acknowledgements......Page 99
References......Page 102
Back Cover......Page 107