Eurostat has published results of a European Health Interview Survey (EHIS) showing that between 8% and 25% of adults are obese across Member States.
The European Health Interview Survey EHIS aims at measuring the health status, life style and health care of citizens across the EU Member States on a harmonised basis.
The results are gender sensitive and show that there is no systematic difference in obesity between women and men:the proportion of obesity was higher for women in eight Member States, higher for men in ten and equal in one.
Eurostat also concludes that obesity is congruent with the educational level: the proportion of women who are obese falls as the educational level rises in all Member States.
For men , in eleven of the available Member States, the highest share of obesity was observed for those with a low educational level, in five Member States for those with a medium educational level while in Bulgaria and Estonia it was for those with a high educational level.
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EPHA related articles
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– EPHA letter on Irish tax
– EPHA letter on Romanian tax,
– EPHA Press release on Danish tax,
– EPHA letter on Hungarian tax,
– EPHA letter on French tax
– EPHA member report: Diet, Physical Activity and Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Europe
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