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Executive Summaries

Table of contents

Chapter 1. Health Status

• Life expectancy and healthy life expectancy at birth
• Life expectancy and healthy life expectancy at age 65
• Mortality from all causes
• Mortality from heart disease and stroke
• Mortality from cancer
• Mortality from transport accidents
• Suicide
• Infant mortality
• Infant health: Low birth weight
• Self-reported health and disability
• Incidence of selected communicable diseases
• HIV/AIDS
• Cancer incidence
• Diabetes prevalence and incidence
• Dementia prevalence
• Asthma and COPD prevalence

Chapter 2. Determinants of Health

• Smoking and alcohol consumption among children
• Overweight and obesity among children
• Fruit and vegetable consumption among children
• Physical activity among children
• Smoking among adults
• Alcohol consumption among adults
• Overweight and obesity among adults
• Fruit and vegetable consumption among adults

Chapter 3. Health Care Resources and Activities

• Medical doctors
• Consultations with doctors
• Nurses
• Medical technologies: CT scanners and MRI units
• Hospital beds
• Hospital discharges
• Average length of stay in hospitals
• Cardiac procedures (coronary angioplasty)
• Cataract surgeries
• Hip and knee replacement
• Pharmaceutical consumption
• Unmet health care needs

Chapter 4. Quality of Care

• Care for chronic conditions
  - Avoidable admissions: Respiratory diseases
  - Avoidable admissions: Uncontrolled diabetes
• Acute care
  - In-hospital mortality following acute myocardial infarction
  - In-hospital mortality following stroke
• Patient safety
  - Procedural or postoperative complications
  - Obstetric trauma
• Cancer care
  - Screening, survival and mortality for cervical cancer
  - Screening, survival and mortality for breast cancer
  - Screening, survival and mortality for colorectal cancer
• Care for communicable diseases
  - Childhood vaccination programmes
  - Influenza vaccination for older people

Chapter 5. Health Expenditure and Financing

• Coverage for health care
• Health expenditure per capita
• Health expenditure in relation to GDP
• Health expenditure by function
• Pharmaceutical expenditure
• Financing of health care
• Trade in health services
   

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