Around one in three deaths in
Italy could be avoided in Italy with timely and effective health
care, according to a report released on Tuesday by EU statistics
office Eurostat.
Italy was in 11th place in a ranking inside the report
with an avoidable-death share of 33% of the 52,098 fatalities of
people under 75 in 2013, just below the EU average of 33.7%.
The highest shares of avoidable deaths were registered in
Romania (49.4%) and Latvia (48.5%), followed by Lithuania
(45.4%) and Slovakia (44.6%).
The best results were for France (23.8%), Denmark
(27.1%), Belgium (27.5%) and the Netherlands (29.1%).
The report said that 1.7 million people aged less than 75
died in 2013 and that around 577,500 of those deaths (33.7%)
"could be considered as premature, as they could have been
avoided in the light of medical knowledge and technology".
"Heart attacks (184,800 deaths) and strokes (almost
94,000 deaths) accounted together for almost half (48%) of these
total avoidable causes of death of people aged less than 75," it
added.
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