Chronic disease management in Latin America and Caribbean

Chronic disease management in Latin America and Caribbean

 

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Chronic diseases are the leading causes of death and illness in Latin America and the Caribbean, accounting for 68% of deaths and 60% of disability-adjusted life years. Cardiovascular disease alone is responsible for 35% of deaths in this region.

The initiative was developed to provide documentation and evidence that will encourage effective interventions to prevent and manage chronic conditions in Latin America and the Caribbean, answering the policy question of how (well) different health systems in the region deliver effective interventions to prevent and manage chronic conditions. It is hoped that this evidence will contribute to a strategic shift in the thinking of health decision makers in the region (e.g. ministries of health, finance and economic development, academia, health practitioners) toward more effective public policies in the control of chronic disease.

The Inter-American Development Bank will finance up to four studies that will examine and- where possible - evaluate the effectiveness of innovative public policies to control chronic disease in different health system contexts in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Each approved research proposal will receive financial support up to US$25,000, depending on the scope of the work proposed. Research institutions or teams of individual researchers may present a proposal.

Proposal deadline is 19 June 2009. Selected proposals will be announced on 8 July 2009.

The following information is required for each proposal in English:

• Research proposal: Policy or intervention, empirical strategy, and expected results.
• Names and CVs (up to three pages long) of research team.
• Budget for proposal.

Final papers will be considered for dissemination as IDB working papers and may be included in a book or a special journal issue on chronic disease management in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Submit proposals or sent questions via email by Friday 19 June 2009.