This profile provides a concise and policy-relevant overview of health and the health system in the United Kingdom as … part of the broader series of the State of Health in the EU country profiles. It provides a short synthesis of: the health … status in the country; the determinants of health, focussing on behavioural risk factors; the organisation of the health …

Health perception biases can have serious consequences on health. Despite their relevance, the role of such biases in … determining healthcare utilisation is severely underexplored. Here we study the relationship between health misperception, doctor … visits, and concomitant outof- pocket expenditures for the population 50+ in Europe. We conceptualise health misperception as …

Health represents one of the thematic priorities for smart specialisation. Until now the difficulty in properly … measuring research and innovation (R&I) in Health sector has represented a barrier to address specific policies in favour of … difficulty in clearly defining the boundaries of the Health sector. Data provided by European Commission, focusing on Health as …