Healthcare: Eurostat: Romania, first in the EU on avoidable deaths
Tuesday, July 3, 2018
The highest shares of avoidable deaths were registered in Romania (48.6%) and Latvia (47.5%), followed by Lithuania (47.0%) and Slovakia (44.2%, according to an Eurostat report. On the other hand, the share was below a quarter in France (23.6%) and between 25% and 30% in Belgium (26.0%), Denmark (26.6%), the Netherlands (28.1%), and Poland (29.9%). In the European Union (EU), 1.7 million persons aged less than 75 died in 2015. Of those, more than 570 ...