Les dépenses de santé publique en Europe en chute pour la 1e fois depuis 1975

Infographie : F. Descheemaekere

[Euractiv]

Les répercussions d’une baisse des dépenses de santé publique en Europe ne sont pas encore visibles, affirment des experts de la santé publique à la suite d’un rapport indiquant que ces dépenses sont en chute pour la première fois depuis les années 1970.

The report – issued jointly by the Commission and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development – found that from an annual average growth rate of 4.6% between 2000 and 2009, health spending per capita in Europe fell 0.6% in 2010, the first time it has dropped since 1975. The report also found that more half of adults in the European Union are now overweight, and 17% are obese, and this and other problems are storing up a worse harvest of health problems for the future. It said that rates of obesity have doubled since 1990 in many European countries, and now range from 8% in Romania and Switzerland to over 25% in Hungary and the United Kingdom.
Obesity and smoking are the major risk factors for heart disease and stroke which accounted for 36% of all deaths across EU countries in 2010.

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