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Tag Archives: European Union (EU)
UK “Health at a Glance 2017” Using OECD Indicators (BBC News / OECD)
Summary The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)’s Health at a Glance provides “the latest comparable data and trends on the performance of health systems in OECD countries”. Britain appears to be the “most obese nation” in Western Europe, … Continue reading
Posted in Universal Interest
Tagged Access to Care, Access to Services, Access to Treatment, Alcohol Consumption, Cancer Survival, Cancer Survival Rates in England, Delayed Discharges, Epidemiology, European Community Health Indicators (ECHI), European Health, European Union (EU), Finance, Financial Context, Financial Issues, Financing of Health Care, Health Expenditure, Health: Financing, Hospital Discharge and Transfers, International Comparisons, International Health Care Comparisons, International Perspectives, Life Expectancy, Men vs. Women (Diseease Prevalence), Mortality, NHS Workforce, Obesity, OECD, OECD Health Policy Studies, OECD Indicators, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Overweight, Public Health, Smoking, Social Epidemiology
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The European Health Report 2012 (WHO/Europe)
Summary This World Health Organisation (WHO), Regional Office for Europe, report covers the overall improvements to health in the WHO European Region, and analyses the health inequalities within and across countries. A road-map is provided to Europe’s health policy goal, … Continue reading
Posted in For Doctors (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), International, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, Universal Interest
Tagged Ageing, Alcohol Consumption, Burden of Disease, Causes of Dementia, CSDH: Commission on the Social Determinants of Health, Delivery of Health Care, Demographic Change and Public Services, Demographic Changes, Demographic Time-Bomb, Demographics, Demography, Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALY), Disease Burden, Epidemiology, Epidemiology and Statistics, Europe, European Health Report 2012 (WHO/Europe), European Targets for Health and Well‐Being, European Union (EU), EUROSTAT: Statistical Office of the European Union, Health 2020, Health 2020 Targets, Health and Wellbeing, Health for All, Health for All and HEALTH21, Health Inequalities, Health Policy, Health Status Indicators, Health Systems as Health Determinants, Health Systems’ Contribution to Well-Being, ICF: International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health, Impact of Demographic Change on Public Services, Life Expectancy, Life Expectancy of Older People, Measuring Health and Wellbeing, Morbidity, Mortality, Mortality Morbidity and Wellbeing, Mortality Rates, Mortality Statistics, NCDs: Noncommunicable Diseases, NUTS: Nomenclature of Units for Territorial Statistics (European Union), OECD, ONS, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Population Growth and Ageing, PSS: Perceived Stress Scale, Public Health, Public Health Trends, Regional Health Planning, Risk Factors, RIVM: National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (the Netherlands), SAGE: Study on Global AGEing and Adult Health (WHO), SMART: Specific Measurable Achievable Relevant and Timely, Social Demographics, Social Determinants of Health Inequalities, Social Epidemiology, SWLS: Satisfaction With Life Scale, Tobacco Consumption, Well-Being, Wellbeing, WEMWBS: Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale, WHO, WHO-Five Well-being Index (WHO-5), WHO: World Health Organization, WHOQoL: WHO Quality of Life Project, World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Europe, World Health Organization
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European Health at a Glance: 2012 (OECD)
Summary This Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report includes key indicators, from across 35 European countries, which summarise health status, determinants of health, health care resources and activities, quality of care, health expenditure and financing. The indicators selected … Continue reading
Posted in For Doctors (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), International, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Alcohol Consumption, Alzheimer’s Disease: Prevalence, Average Length of Stay (Hospitals), Avoidable Admissions, Epidemiology, European Community Health Indicators (ECHI), European Health, European Union (EU), Finance, Financial Context, Financial Issues, Financing of Health Care, Health Expenditure, Health: Financing, Hospital Beds, Hospital Discharge, Hospital Mortality, Hospital Mortality Rates, International Comparisons, Length of Stay (LoS), Life Expectancy, Men vs. Women (Diseease Prevalence), Mortality, Obesity, OECD, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Overweight, Prevalence of Dementia, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Public Health, Smoking, Social Epidemiology
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Scale of Mental Health Disorders Across Europe 2010 (ECNP)
[A version of this item appears in: Dementia: the Latest Evidence Newsletter (RWHT), Volume 2 Issue 3, October 2011]. Summary This study, from the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP), examines the extent of mental health disorders and other disorders of … Continue reading
Posted in For Researchers (mostly), In the News, International, NHS Digital (Previously NHS Choices), Statistics, Systematic Reviews, Universal Interest
Tagged Center of Epidemiology and Longitudinal Studies (CELOS), Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALY), Disease Burden, European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP), European Union (EU), Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden
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