Eurostat Health Statistics

Eurostat is the Statistical Office of the EU. It collects and collates data on a wide range of themes including health statistics. The data is categorised under two main headings: public health and health and safety at work.

Under public health, some of the sub-headings include: health status (e.g. self-reported health and morbidity), health determinants (e.g. overweight and obesity, tobacco and alcohol consumption), healthcare (e.g healthcare expenditure, healthcare resources), morbidity (e.g diagnosis-specific morbidity), disability (e.g. prevalence of disability, employment of disabled persons) and causes of death (e.g. national and regional mortality data by causes of death).

Under health and safety at work, sub-headings include: Accidents at work, occupational diseases and other work- related health problems.

Purpose: Health statistics are used to monitor the EU Health strategy, the EU Strategy on health and safety at work and their contribution to the Europe 2020 strategy. They have a key role to support the elaboration of evidence-based policies both at national and European levels.

Those statistics also serve for calculating indicators of the health portfolio used for the monitoring of the social protection and social inclusion and the set of indicators known as the European Core Health Indicators (ECHI)

Coverage: EU

Data collection commenced in 1953 and is ongoing.