Special Eurobarometer 183.7: Health of adults

This public opinion survey was carried out at the request of the Directorate-General Health and Consumer Protection and was managed and organised by the Public Opinion Analysis Sector of the Directorate-General Press and Communication.
It was conducted in all the Member at States of the European Union between October 28 and December 8, 2002, under the general coordination of the European Opinion Research Group EEIG in Brussels.
The vast majority (67.8%) of EU citizens aged 15 years and over considered themselves to be healthy, only 5.7% perceiving themselves to be in bad or worse health. A quarter (25.3%) reported chronic morbidity and a quarter (26.3%) had activity restriction with 6.2% severely restricted. Low levels of sensory functional limitation were reported (1.3% near vision, 3.4% far vision and 3.0% in hearing), though without the use of aids 42.1% were limited in near vision, 21.1% in far vision and 4.5% in hearing. Physical functional limitations were more common with 3.6% limited in walking 500 metres even with an aid, 9.6% in climbing stairs and 10.5% in lifting 5 kilos.

The results by volumes are distributed as follows:

• Volume A: Countries
• Volume AA: Groups of countries
• Volume A' (AP): Trends
• Volume AA' (AAP): Trends of groups of countries
• Volume B: EU/socio-demographics
• Volume B' (BP) : Trends of EU/ socio-demographics
• Volume C: Country/socio-demographics

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