Health Status

This section analyses the status of health within Europe. It includes information about:

• summary measures: (healthy) life expectancy;
• perceived and functional health: perceived general health, functional and activity limitations, general mental health;
• mortality: total, infant, perinatal, disease-specific, lifestyle-related deaths; and
• diseases, disorders, injuries: infectious diseases, cancer, mental/behavioural disorders, cardiovascular disease, other non-communicable diseases, pregnancy-related conditions, injuries (including suicide).

For each cause of disease, disorder or injury the following issues are discussed:

• definition and scope;
• occurrence;
• mortality;
• consequences for individuals and society;
• causes and risk factors; and
• interventions.

The diseases are ordered according to the ICD categories. Most of the health issues presented here can be found in the ECHI-shortlist, upon which the selection of items has been based.