Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Understanding chronic non-communicable diseases in Latin America: towards an equitybased research agenda | De Maio Globalization and Health 2011 7 36 http content 7 1 36 H2 globalization 7 AND HEALTH DEBATE Open Access Understanding chronic non-communicable diseases in Latin America towards an equitybased research agenda Fernando G De Maio Abstract Although chronic non-communicable diseases are traditionally depicted as diseases of affluence growing evidence suggests they strike along the fault lines of social inequality. The challenge of understanding how these conditions shape patterns of population health in Latin America requires an inter-disciplinary lens. This paper reviews the burden of chronic non-communicable diseases in the region and examines key myths surrounding their prevalence and distribution. It argues that a social justice approach rooted in the idea of health inequity needs to be at the core of research in this area and concludes with discussion of a new approach to guide empirical research the average deprivation inequality framework. Keywords Latin America chronic disease risk factors social justice Introduction A population s health is a critical indicator of the quality of its social fabric. For this reason dismay is generated by the well-known statistics while men in many parts of the industrialised world may expect to live on average to see their late seventies and women in many countries may expect to live well into their eighties billions of people around the world live in dramatically different epidemiological worlds 1 2 . These worlds are characterized by substantially worse aggregate indicators including life expectancies in the low forties. Different epidemiological worlds are characterized by high levels of social inequity in terms of socioeconomic resources health status and by higher rates of exposure to a wide range of health risks. These risks are varied - from the structural violence of poverty environmental degradation lack of access to health care services and unsafe working conditions - to seemingly
