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Health

Population health, in %1 (2017)
(Very) good self-perceived health	84.7
Long-standing health problem1	32.7
Health behaviour, in %1 (2017)
Physically active	75.7
Smoker	27.1
Consumes alcohol daily	10.9
Mortality
Infant mortality, in ‰ (2021)	3.1
Total deaths (2020)	76 195
Cardiovascular diseases	20 511
malignant tumours	16 930
COVID-19	9 294
Health system
Hospitalisation rate for 1000 inhabitants  (2021)	114.9
Accommodation rate in nursing homes among persons aged ≥ 80 years as at 31.12, in % (2021)	13.1
Rate of recourse to home care among persons aged ≥ 80 years, in %  (2021)	31.1
Doctors in the ambulatory sector per 100 000 inhabitants (2020)	208
Costs and financing (2020p)
Health expenditure per inhabitant, in CHF per month	804
Health expenditure in relation to GDP, in %	11.8

1 Population aged 15 or over living in a private household
p provisional data

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