Health at a Glance: Latin America and the Caribbean 2023
This second edition of Health at a Glance: Latin America and the Caribbean, prepared jointly by OECD and the World Bank, presents a set of key indicators of health status, determinants of health, healthcare resources and utilisation, healthcare expenditure and financing, quality of care, health workforce, and ageing across 33 Latin America and the Caribbean countries. Each of the indicators is presented in a user-friendly format, consisting of charts illustrating variations across countries, and over time, brief descriptive analyses highlighting the major findings conveyed by the data, and a methodological box on the definition of the indicators and any limitations in data comparability. This edition of Health at a Glance: Latin America and the Caribbean also provides thematic analyses on two key topics for building more resilient health in the LAC region: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on LAC healthcare systems, and climate change and health.
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Drug use
Drug use disorders are a growing cause of short- and long-term health problems, economic cost, and social burden. In 2020, an estimated 284 million people, or 5.6% of the global population aged 15‑64, had used drugs in the previous year, while more than 38 million people are estimated to be suffering from drug use disorders (accounting for 13.6% of people who used drugs in the past year). In addition, in 2019 there were more than half a million deaths and 31 million years of “healthy” life lost because of the use of drugs. More than half of the drug related deaths were attributed to liver diseases (UNODC, 2022[1]). Substance abuse refers to the harmful or hazardous use of psychoactive substances, illicit drugs. Psychoactive substance use can lead to dependence syndrome.
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