Zdravotnický deník | Population Health

The higher the quality of healthcare, the higher the chance of survival and quality of life. Thus, the longer people can remain active and contribute to the country's economic performance. If we look, for example, at the life expectancy indicator, the Czech Republic has been slowly catching up with neighbouring Germany and the EU average over the long term, but it continues to lag behind. In addition, the poorly managed response to the covid pandemic has temporarily brought a significant drop. Within Central Europe, the Czech Republic is better off than, for example, Poland or Slovakia, but it remains the case that a person born in the West has an average chance of living almost two years older than in the Czech Republic.

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