Healthy Lifestyle

  • Tartu Call, European Commission, Health, Lifestyle

Together for a healthy lifestyle!

A healthy lifestyle includes a healthy diet, regular physical activity, mental wellbeing and drug abstinence. The European Commission recognised the need for a holistic approach to promote healthy lifestyles with the Tartu call for a healthy lifestyle, launched by Commissioners Tibor Navracsics (Education, Culture, Youth and Sport), Vytenis Andrikiukaitis (Health and Food Safety) and Phil Hogan (Agriculture and Rural Development) in 2017.

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Impact of lifestyle habits on health systems assessed

Substantial health gains can be achieved from a healthier lifestyle and if countries were on par with today’s healthiest lifestyle there would be up to a 3 year increase in life expectancy. However, the effect of lifestyle on health spending remains unclear and seems to disappear when overall wealth (GDP per capita) is taken into account. These are the main conclusions of the “comparative efficiency of health systems, corrected for selected lifestyle factors” study that has been requested and funded by the European Commission.

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