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The inhabitants of the flat country live fewer years in good health than their European neighbors.
This is a surprising news that the RTBF reveals this morning: "The Belgians lose on average 20 000 years of life in good health per 100 000 inhabitants ", writes the Belgian information website based on a study published on Monday by Sciensano, the former Scientific Institute of Public Health, in collaboration with the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL). On the health side, progress has been noted, but Belgium is still declining compared to other European countries. She is in 15th place out of 28 countries "whereas she was 8th in 1990", according to the RTBF.
In the ranking of the years of life in good health, the country is so fluff. A result that is all the more unexpected as Sciensano sees health progress following a better vaccination rate against measles. "Thirty years ago, some 80 000 new cases of this disease were detected, prevention has reduced this figure to fifty in 2016", illustrates the Belgian news site.
The French at the top of the ranking
According to the study, the French are good students. With their Spanish and Italian neighbors, they record the best results, "with 17,000 to 18,000 years of life lost". In the ranking, it is the Lithuanians who occupy the last place "with a loss of 28 000 years of healthy life per 100 000 inhabitants."
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Belgian side, this bad figure is largely due to lumbar pain (1300 years lost per 100 000 inhabitants). Lifestyle is also responsible for the result with tobacco (2,400 lost years), alcohol (1,600 years lost) and poor eating habits (1,800 years lost). Dr. Maertens de Noordhout, a scientist at UCL, concludes that "one-third of our loss of healthy life is attributable to factors that we could, in principle, influence." [19659008]
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