DOI: 10.1787/2074319x
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OECD Health Policy Studies

Abstract: and Peru (LAC-7) have made great efforts to strengthen their primary health care systems over the past decades. This contributed to some important health outcomes. Life expectancy at birth has increased in LAC-7 countries, reaching 77.9 years on average in 2020 (a gain of almost 3 years since 2000 compared to 3.6 years across other OECD countries). Infant mortality has been halved over the past two decades, going from 21 deaths per 1 000 live births in 2000 to 10.8 in 2020.However, the COVID-19 pandemic inflec… Show more

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“…Second, government responsibility for the elderly has changed from securing the basic needs of the elderly during the planned-economy age to securing all-round aging services including daily care, rehabilitation of chronic diseases, health maintenance, and spiritual comfort in today's market-oriented economy. Besides building public nursing homes maintaining basic fairness, all levels of government have been building a multi-valued aging support system [37], reflected by public goods for the poor, quasi-public goods for the low-income, and private products for the middle-income and above.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Second, government responsibility for the elderly has changed from securing the basic needs of the elderly during the planned-economy age to securing all-round aging services including daily care, rehabilitation of chronic diseases, health maintenance, and spiritual comfort in today's market-oriented economy. Besides building public nursing homes maintaining basic fairness, all levels of government have been building a multi-valued aging support system [37], reflected by public goods for the poor, quasi-public goods for the low-income, and private products for the middle-income and above.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Severe autism is very difficult to differentiate from severe/profound mental disability because the autistic triad (impaired communication, impaired social skills and abnormal sensory perceptions) is present in both situations. Severe autism affects around 0.1% of the general population (Durkin et al, 2008(Durkin et al, , 2010Fombonne, 2009;Grether et al, 2009, King & Bearman, 2009Rice, 2013;Rice et al, 2013;Schieve et al, 2011;Wing & Potter, 2002) and requires intensive psycho-educational care and an expensive human and economic commitment (Hewlett & Moran, 2014;Honeycutt et al, 2004;WHO, 2006;Pinheiro et al, 2017;Trautman et al, 2016). We define this population with Severe Intellectual Disability and Severe Autism (SIDSA) considering the severity of intellectual disability and the severity of autism spectrum disorder.…”
Section: A Modest Proposalmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Adolescence is a critical stage of life marked by significant and quick changes in one’s physical, intellectual, emotional, and psychological makeup ( 1 ), as well as the emergence of potentially dangerous or beneficial lifelong habits. Half of all mental health illnesses that completely develop in adulthood, according to the WHO, start before the age of 14 ( 2 ).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%