The state of health in the European Union (EU-27) in 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease study 2019

• Main Authors: João Vasco Santos (Author), Alicia Padron-Monedero (Author), Boris Bikbov (Author), Diana Alecsandra Grad (Author), Dietrich Plass (Author), Enkeleint A. Mechili (Author), Federica Gazzelloni (Author), Florian Fischer (Author), Gerhard Sulo (Author), Che Henry Ngwa (Author), Isabel Noguer-Zambrano (Author), José L. Peñalvo (Author), Juanita A. Haagsma (Author), Katarzyna Kissimova-Skarbek (Author), Lorenzo Monasta (Author), Nermin Ghith (Author), Rodrigo Sarmiento-Suarez (Author), Rok Hrzic (Author), Romana Haneef (Author), Rónán O'Caoimh (Author), Sarah Cuschieri (Author), Stefania Mondello (Author), Zubair Kabir (Author), GBD 2019 EU State of Health Collaborators (Author), Alberto Freitas (Author), Brecht Devleesschauwer (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2024-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background The European Union (EU) faces many health-related challenges. Burden of diseases information and the resulting trends over time are essential for health planning. This paper reports estimates of disease burden in the EU and individual 27 EU countries in 2019, and compares them wi...