The European Commission and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development have published “Health at a Glance: Europe”, as part of the ongoing series which assesses EU Member States’ health systems. The 2022 edition examines key challenges in developing stronger, more resilient health systems following the COVID 19 pandemic. This report reflects on the pandemic’s disruption of health services for non COVID patients, as well as the policy responses European countries deployed to mitigate the negative consequences of these disruptions. In addition, it addresses behavioural and environmental risk factors that have significantly impacted people's health and mortality, including the importance of prevention of both communicable and non-communicable diseases. Alzheimer’s and other dementias are noted to have accounted for 5% of all deaths in the EU in 2019, with the number of deaths increasing by over 50% in the decade up to 2019. It also noted that deaths from all causes are classified to ICD-10 codes A00-Y89, excluding S00-T98. The grouping Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias include G30 (Alzheimer) and F01-F03 (other dementias). Mortality rates are based on the number of deaths registered in a country. The rates are age-standardised to the revised European standard population adopted by Eurostat in 2012 to remove variations arising from differences in age structures across countries and over time. The full Health at a Glance report is available at:
https://health.ec.europa.eu/state-health-eu/health-glance-europe_en
