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Health systems strengthening for noncommunicable disease control and healthy aging: integrated actions in Aruba and Curaçao

Cho, Malhi; Marchand, Melissa; Vega, Enrique; Holder, Reynaldo; Luciani, Silvana; Constansia-Kook, Jeanine; Moya, José (2019-06)

[ABSTRACT]. Caribbean countries are experiencing social, epidemiological, and demographic transitions shaped by the growing elderly population and the rise of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs)—now responsible for 78% of ...
Contribution of amenable mortality to life expectancy differences between the Dutch Caribbean islands of Aruba and Curaçao and the Netherlands

Verstraeten, Soraya P. A.; van Oers, Hans A. M.; Mackenbach, Johan P. (2020-05)

[ABSTRACT]. Objective. To identify specific health care areas whose optimization could improve population health in the Dutch Caribbean islands of Aruba and Curaçao. Methods. Comparative observational study using mortality ...