Sustainable development and public health: rating European countries
Abstract Background Sustainable development and public health quite strongly correlate, being connected and conditioned by one another. This paper therein attempts to offer a representation of Europe’s current situation of sustainable development in the area of public health. Methods A dataset on su...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:3e02ab89699142248679d169d3ac9252 2023-05-15T16:51:46+02:00 Sustainable development and public health: rating European countries Seke Kristina Petrovic Natasa Jeremic Veljko Vukmirovic Jovanka Kilibarda Biljana Martic Milan 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-13-77 https://doaj.org/article/3e02ab89699142248679d169d3ac9252 EN eng BMC http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/13/77 https://doaj.org/toc/1471-2458 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-13-77 1471-2458 https://doaj.org/article/3e02ab89699142248679d169d3ac9252 BMC Public Health, Vol 13, Iss 1, p 77 (2013) Public health Sustainable development I-distance method Rating countries Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270 article 2013 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-13-77 2022-12-31T01:40:13Z Abstract Background Sustainable development and public health quite strongly correlate, being connected and conditioned by one another. This paper therein attempts to offer a representation of Europe’s current situation of sustainable development in the area of public health. Methods A dataset on sustainable development in the area of public health consisting of 31 European countries (formally proposed by the European Union Commission and EUROSTAT) has been used in this paper in order to evaluate said issue for the countries listed thereof. A statistical method which synthesizes several indicators into one quantitative indicator has also been utilized. Furthermore, the applied method offers the possibility to obtain an optimal set of variables for future studies of the problem, as well as for the possible development of indicators. Results According to the results obtained, Norway and Iceland are the two foremost European countries regarding sustainable development in the area of public health, whereas Romania, Lithuania, and Latvia, some of the European Union’s newest Member States, rank lowest. The results also demonstrate that the most significant variables (more than 80%) in rating countries are found to be “healthy life years at birth, females” (r 2 = 0.880), “healthy life years at birth, males” (r 2 = 0.864), “death rate due to chronic diseases, males” (r 2 = 0.850), and “healthy life years, 65, females” (r 2 = 0.844). Conclusions Based on the results of this paper, public health represents a precondition for sustainable development, which should be continuously invested in and improved. After the assessment of the dataset, proposed by EUROSTAT in order to evaluate progress towards the agreed goals of the EU Sustainable Development Strategy (SDS), this paper offers an improved set of variables, which it is hoped, may initiate further studies concerning this problem. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Norway BMC Public Health 13 1 |
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Abstract Background Sustainable development and public health quite strongly correlate, being connected and conditioned by one another. This paper therein attempts to offer a representation of Europe’s current situation of sustainable development in the area of public health. Methods A dataset on sustainable development in the area of public health consisting of 31 European countries (formally proposed by the European Union Commission and EUROSTAT) has been used in this paper in order to evaluate said issue for the countries listed thereof. A statistical method which synthesizes several indicators into one quantitative indicator has also been utilized. Furthermore, the applied method offers the possibility to obtain an optimal set of variables for future studies of the problem, as well as for the possible development of indicators. Results According to the results obtained, Norway and Iceland are the two foremost European countries regarding sustainable development in the area of public health, whereas Romania, Lithuania, and Latvia, some of the European Union’s newest Member States, rank lowest. The results also demonstrate that the most significant variables (more than 80%) in rating countries are found to be “healthy life years at birth, females” (r 2 = 0.880), “healthy life years at birth, males” (r 2 = 0.864), “death rate due to chronic diseases, males” (r 2 = 0.850), and “healthy life years, 65, females” (r 2 = 0.844). Conclusions Based on the results of this paper, public health represents a precondition for sustainable development, which should be continuously invested in and improved. After the assessment of the dataset, proposed by EUROSTAT in order to evaluate progress towards the agreed goals of the EU Sustainable Development Strategy (SDS), this paper offers an improved set of variables, which it is hoped, may initiate further studies concerning this problem. |
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