Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Jamaica and Eastern Caribbean: Longer life - Low quality
Life expectancy in Jamaica and the Eastern Caribbean is increasing. However, this does not mean that longer life will have higher quality. A recent World Bank study warns that Jamaica and the Eastern Caribbean are facing a health crisis with rising rates of heart disease, diabetes, obesity and other non-communicable diseases, which significantly affect poor families because they pay for medical treatment out of their own pockets.
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Lifestyle Expectations is a multidisciplinary research that reconstructs Jamaica's increase from low to high life anticipations and describes how that was obtained.
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