Eurostat: 7 out of 10 Bulgarians Say they are in Good Health

About 72 percent or 7 out of 10 Bulgarians over the age of 16 define their health status as good or very good. This shows data from a Eurostat analysis of the health status of Europeans in 2017 on the upcoming World Health Day, April 7, with the EU average of 70 percent, that is, we are almost approaching our health self-assessment to an average European level.

According to the European Health Interview, men in our country define themselves as more healthy than women - 76 percent of the strong sex, and 69 percent of the women appreciate their health status as good and very good.

Eurostat data is almost also covered by self-assessments of Bulgarians' health status in the survey of national statistics - there the percentage of self-identifying people as healthy Bulgarians is almost the same as the remaining 28 percent self-assess their health as satisfactory or bad.
 
The highest proportion of Bulgarians determine their health status as good in the age group of 14 to 24 - nearly 97 per cent. Accordingly, the highest percentage of Bulgarians with poor health status is among our compatriots aged 65 plus years - nearly 80 percent of them feel in poor or very poor health.

According to NSI data on self-assessment of health - the highest proportion of Bulgarians complain of high blood pressure, accompanied by circulatory diseases - nearly 30 percent or almost every third Bulgarian.

 
Secondly, Bulgarians complain about chronic back and arthrosis - nearly 17 percent. The third is angina and ischemic heart disease - about 10 percent, and so on.

From bad health complain in the three Baltic republics
 
According to Eurostat, about 8 percent of Europeans aged over 16 complain of poor or very poor health.
 
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