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The objective of this research is to estimate the economic valuation of the years lost due to premature death in chronic non-communicable diseases. Materials and methods: The sources of information are data from the National Health Survey of the Ministry of Health of 2019 and mortality statistics from the National Institute of Statistics and Census. The study variables are: age at death, life expectancy at birth, age, sex and per capita income. Results: Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) have been a major economic burden in Panama. The relative risk (odds ratio) of death due to Chronic Obesity, as a base risk factor, is 1.2588 times higher for Cancer, 4.0290 for Arterial Hypertension, 3.1627 times higher for Chronic Kidney Disease and 2.4259 and 2.8645 times higher for Type I and Type II Diabetes Mellitus. Discussion: NCDs express a challenge of great importance for the health system, threatening the financial sustainability of the public health sector and the social security system. Conclusions: It is important to orient health policies to combat risk factors such as obesity and to strengthen the first-level care system, in which prevention is given as the most plausible measure but which will have long-term effects, given the demographic and epidemiological transition of NCDs.
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