Health in Serbia

Serbia had the second-highest mortality in Europe, at 709 per 100,000 population in 2015.

History

The Institute of Public Health of Serbia was first established in 1919, when it was called the Ministerial Commission for Epidemiology. In 1945, it was called the Central Institute of Hygiene and encompassed the Federal Institute of Hygiene, the Institute of Epidemiology, and the Institute of Bacteriology and Epidemiology. It changed its name to the Institute of Public Health of Serbia in 2006.[1]

Statistics

Expenditure on health in Serbia was 10.4% of GDP in 2014, US$1,312 per capita.

Life expectancy at birth was estimated at 74 years for men in 2016 and 79 for women.[2] Infant mortality dropped from 14.4 per 1000 live births in 1991 to 11.0 in 2000 and 7.0 in 2010, but for Romani people living in the urban slums it was 3 times the national average in 2006.

The leading causes of death are chronic non-communicable diseases. The rate of tuberculosis fell from 37 per 100,000 people to 24 per 100,000 between 2003 and 2008.[3] It has the highest rate in Europe of female smokers (40%), and the fifth-highest rate of male smokers (44%).[4] In 2015, it was estimated that 11.96% of the population had diabetes, costing about $666 per person per year.[5]

References
  1. "Institute of Public Health of Serbia". IANPHI. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
  2. "Serbia". WHO. 2018. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
  3. "Serbia: Brief health system". Health Policy Institute. 28 January 2014. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
  4. Ballas, Dimitris; Dorling, Danny; Hennig, Benjamin (2017). The Human Atlas of Europe. Bristol: Policy Press. p. 66. ISBN 9781447313540.
  5. "Top 10: Which country has the highest rates of diabetes in Europe? The UK's position might surprise you…". Diabetes UK. 27 August 2015. Retrieved 20 December 2015.
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