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What is the health status of the Belgian population? [1]

Published on: 
Monday, February 14, 2022

Since 2019, Sciensano has been combining the results of various studies and sources via the online ‘Health Status Report [2]’ to estimate how healthy the Belgian inhabitants are. In general, we are rather healthy, but in some areas, such as mental health, we do not score very well. The COVID-19 crisis also had a clear impact on our health. In addition, important health inequalities remain, both at regional and socio-economic level.

We summarise the most important results on the health status of the Belgian population in a PDF report [3]. However, we recommend consulting the Health Status Report online via the website www.healthybelgium.be [2] for the most recent and extensive health information.

Read more about the Belgian Health Status Project [4]

Associated health topics: 
Physical exercise [5]
Chronic disease [6]
Lifestyle risk factors [7]
Summary measures of population health [8]
Contact person(s): 
Brecht Devleesschauwer [9], Aline Scohy [10]

Source URL:https://www.sciensano.be/en/press-corner/what-health-status-belgian-population

Links
[1] https://www.sciensano.be/en/press-corner/what-health-status-belgian-population [2] https://www.healthybelgium.be/en/health-status [3] https://www.sciensano.be/en/biblio/health-status-report-2021-state-health-belgium [4] https://www.sciensano.be/en/projects/health-status-report [5] https://www.sciensano.be/en/health-topics/physical-exercise [6] https://www.sciensano.be/en/health-topics/chronic-disease [7] https://www.sciensano.be/en/health-topics/lifestyle-risk-factors [8] https://www.sciensano.be/en/health-topics/summary-measures-population-health [9] https://www.sciensano.be/en/people/brecht-devleesschauwer [10] https://www.sciensano.be/en/people/aline-scohy