Capitalizing on the Demographic Transition

Nonprice interventions

Traffic accidents

Increased speeding penalties, law enforcement, media campaigns, and speed bumps

Enforcement of seat belt laws, promotion of child restraints, and random driver breath testing Source: Laxminarayan et al. 2006; Jamison et al. 2006. Note: DALY = disability-adjusted life year.

Advertising bans on television, radio, and billboards; health information and advertising in the form of health warning labels on tobacco products; interventions to reduce tobacco supply, such as smuggling control; restrictions on smoking Minimize exposure to high-risk scenarios by installation of speed bumps at hazardous junctions, increase penalties for speeding and other effective road-safety regulations combined with media coverage and better law enforcement Mandatory seat belt and child-restraint laws, enforcement of drunk-driving laws, and random breath testing of drivers

Adolescents and adults

353

Adults

2,449

145

Capitalizing on the Demographic Transition

Published on Aug 18, 2011

World Bank Publications

About

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) 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. This book looks primarily at cardiovascular disease (CVD) and tobacco use since they account for a disproportionate amount of the NCD burden—the focus is strategic, rather than comprehensive. The goal of this book is to encourage countries to develop, adopt, and implement effective and timely country and, where appropriate, regional responses that reduce both population-level risk factors and the NCD burden.

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