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Health

Population health, in %1 (2022)
(Very) good self-perceived health	84.9
Long-standing health problem1	36.0
Health behaviour, in %1 (2022)
Physically active	76.0
Smoker	23.9
Consumes alcohol daily	8.6
Mortality
Infant mortality, in ‰ (2023)	3.3
Total deaths (2022)	74 425
Cardiovascular diseases	20 463
malignant tumours	17 220
COVID-19	4 114
Health system
Hospitalisation rate for 1000 inhabitants  (2022)	114.9
Accommodation rate in nursing homes among persons aged ≥ 80 years as at 31.12, in % (2022)	13.6
Rate of recourse to home care among persons aged ≥ 80 years, in %  (2022)	32.4
Doctors in the ambulatory sector per 100 000 inhabitants (2020)	208
Costs and financing (2022)
Costs of health care system per inhabitant and month in CHF	869
Costs of health care system as a % of the GDP	11.7
Financing of health care system per inhabitant and month in CHF	882

1 Population aged 15 or over living in a private household

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