The Swiss feel healthier than the rest of Europe

The Swiss feel healthier than residents of any other country in Europe. This is the result of a new report from the Federal Bureau of Statistics (BFS) as part of a European survey.

Only 3.9 percent of the Swiss surveyed rated their health status as bad or fairly bad. In the European Union it was 8.8 percent.

According to the BFS, this depends, among other things, on income. The proportion of people in the lowest income group in Switzerland who rated their health status as poor or moderately poor was significantly higher than the average at 8.4 percent. In the highest income group, however, the share was significantly lower at 1.2 percent.

According to statistics, education also influenced perceived health. For example, people aged 50 and older with a maximum of one compulsory school diploma rate their health status as bad or very bad (12.1 percent) twice as often as people who have completed their highest education at the upper secondary level (5.9 percent). .

The SILC survey (Statistics on Income and Living Conditions) is a European coordinated survey that is conducted annually in more than 30 countries. In Switzerland, the study is based on a sample of approximately 8,500 households with more than 18,000 people. (aeg/sda)