From Cradle to Cane: WHO Report Highlights Lifelong Health Crises in Europe
Almost 76,000 children in the European Region die before their fifth birthday every year; chronic diseases claim one in six people before age 70
Despite progress in some areas, the WHO European Region – long reputed to have some of the world’s strongest health systems - is largely stagnating or even backsliding on a range of indicators from child and adolescent health to chronic diseases. That’s the thrust of WHO’s latest European Health Report, drawing upon the most recently available data across all 53 Member States across Europe and Central Asia.
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