Public health

Life expectancy at birth has risen in Greece to reach 80.7 years compared to an EU28 average of 79.2 years, according to a new OECD report.

Serbia's Finance Ministry is drafting a new Law on Tobacco that will completely ban smoking in enclosed public spaces, such as workplaces, cafes, bars and restaurants.

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Greece’s population shrank by 17,660 people last year as deaths outpaced births, according to the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT).

There were a total of 94,134 births in Greece last year, which was 6.2 percent down on 2012.

Almost 86 percent of the children were born to Greek mothers, whose average age was 31.5.

The number of hungry people in the world has dropped by 100 million over the last 10 years, though one in nine are still undernourished, with Asia home to the majority of the underfed, the UN said Tuesday.

The World Health Organization has released a global report on suicide prevention and it shows that each year more than 800,000 people take their own lives — about one person every 40 seconds.

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BELGRADE -Psychoactive substance abuse is a major social problem in Serbia, so the state needs to work continuously on improving the response in the fight against that plague, reads a message from the closing conference of the EU twinning project titled “Implementation of Strategy for Fight against Drugs - Supply and Demand Reduction Components”.

Region to jointly combat diseases in aftermath of floods

MOROVIIĆ -- Health ministers of Serbia, Croatia and the Serb Republic (RS) in Bosnia agreed on Tuesday on a common strategy for the fight against infectious diseases.

These diseases could threaten the countries in the region after the flooding.

BELGRADE - The situation in Serbia is tragic, and the World Health Organization (WHO) is assessing the current state, primarily in relation to the supply of drinking water and sanitary conditions so as to propose measures for public health prevention, WHO senior official Oliver Schmoll said in a statement to Tanjug.

"Epidemiological situation under control"

BELGRADE -- The epidemiological situation in Serbia is under control, and is being constantly monitored, said Doctor Bojana Grgić.

This epidemiologist with the Belgrade-based Public Health Institute Milan Jovanović Batut spoke for Tanjug on Monday.

BELGRADE - The epidemiological situation in Serbia is under control, and is being constantly monitored, doctor Bojana Grgic, an epidemiologist at the Belgrade-based Public Health Institute Milan Jovanovic Batut, told Tanjug on Monday.