Tuesday, September 10, 2013

EU, 11% for Italian serious deprivations affecting health - ANSA.it

Into BRUSSELS – Italy and ‘the only major country of ancient Europe where 11% of the population and’ subject to severe material deprivation”” affecting health, such as heating or the possibility ‘of have certain foods such as meat: in 2011 the number of Italian citizens affected – says a report published by the European Commission – was twice as much as France, Germany and the UK.

Into The European Commission emphasizes, however, that Italy is the country that in 10 years’ managed to reduce further – than in France, Germany and the United Kingdom – the infant mortality rate, bringing it from an average of 4.4 in 2001 deaths per thousand live births to 3.2 in 2011. Decline even though there is at European level during the same period it has gone on average from 5.7 to 3.9 deaths. For the European Commissioner for Health Tonio Borg” bridge health inequalities must remain a priority at all levels.”

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