The Case for Investment in Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases in Jamaica: Evaluating the return on investment of selected tobacco, alcohol, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease interventions

To help strengthen Member States’ capacity to generate and use economic evidence on NCDs, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) partnered with the Ministry of Health of Jamaica, the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and RTI International to develop an Investment Case for NCDs in Jamaica.

This project aims to develop evidence and guidance to support the development, financing and implementation of national multisectoral NCD prevention and control strategies. Specifically, it estimates the return on investment (ROI) from implementing priority policy interventions for tobacco and alcohol control, as well as clinical interventions to reduce NCDs, more specifically cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes. It also evaluates the political feasibility of putting these interventions into practice.