Health Status Vs Education Attainment and Income

Country Profile: Health Status | Country Profile: People Having Long-Standing Illness or Health Problem | Cross-Country Comparison

Gadgets in the left side of the page provide information on health status of population, while gadgets in the right side provide information on population with long-standing illness or health problem. First two ranks sort countries by % of people with good and very good health and % of people with long-standing illness or health problem correspondingly. According to these ranks, Norway is the healthiest country in the Europe with almost 80% of people having good and very good health, while in Finland there is the biggest share of people with long-standing illness (almost a half of population). The tables give an idea of how education and income affect health in different countries, exactly, showing by how many % the number of healthy people will increase (% of people with long-standing illness will decrease) with the increase of education level from ISCED 0-2 to ISCED 5-6 (with the increase of income level from the first to the fifth quintile). So, in Croatia education affects health status the most: with the increase of education level from 0-2 to 5-6 share of healthy population increase by 150%. Meanwhile, in Estonia share of healthy people with high income is 91% bigger than share of people with low income.