6-February-2024
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The State of Health in the EU’s Country Health Profiles provide a concise and policy-relevant overview of health and health systems in the EU/European Economic area. The 2023 edition has a special focus on behavioural risk factors and includes for the first time an examination of the state of mental health and related services in each country.
15-December-2023
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1-February-2023
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15-November-2022
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13-December-2021
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18-October-2021
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28-November-2019
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5-June-2018
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This country profile was prepared to inform several OECD projects related to pharmaceutical policies and was updated in June 2018.
23-November-2017
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23-November-2016
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Germany is the EU country that spends the most on health, allocating 11.1% of its GDP to health expenditure in 2015. Recent health spending trends closely follow economic growth, with an annual increase of around 2%.