Health at a Glance: Europe 2022
State of Health in the EU Cycle
The 2022 edition of Health at a Glance: Europe examines the key challenges European countries must address to develop stronger, more resilient health systems following the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. It includes a special focus on how the pandemic has affected young people’s mental and physical health. The report emphasises the need for additional measures to prevent the COVID-19 pandemic from scarring a generation of young people. This edition of Health at a Glance: Europe also assesses the pandemic’s disruption of a wide range of health services for non-COVID patients, as well as the policy responses European countries deployed to minimise the adverse consequences of these disruptions. It also addresses a number of important behavioural and environmental risk factors that have a major impact on people’s health and mortality, highlighting the need to put a greater focus on the prevention of both communicable and non-communicable diseases.
Foreword
The last two years have seen multiple crises considerably impacting citizens’ physical and mental health, as well as posing a significant threat to the global economy and societal well-being. As EU and OECD economies gradually recover from the critical phase of the COVID‑19 pandemic, their economic and social outlooks have become more uncertain following Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. Major hikes in energy and commodity prices have aggravated inflationary pressures at a time when a cost-of-living crisis was already taking a heavy toll on economies and societies everywhere, and especially low-income households.
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