in the European Union

BURDEN OF DISEASE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION – MORBIDITY
2. BURDEN OF DISEASE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION – MORBIDITY
Figure 10: Hospital discharges due to injuries, EU27
Hospital
discharges
due to
injurie in %
of all
10%
Hospital discharges, injury and
poisoning per 100 000
Hospital discharges due to injuries in
% of all hospital discharges
Hospital days due to injuries in % of
all hospital days
Average length of stay due to injuries
EU27 1 452 8.7% 8.3% 7.9 days
Minimum 540 (MT) 5.9% (HU) 5.1% (RO) 5.2 days (EL)
Maximum 2 858 (AT) 15.6% (CY) 13.2% (CY) 11.4 days (FI)
Country
Source: Eurostat, 3 year average of latest available years (mostly 2001-2003). Data presentation: Kuratorium für Verkehrssicherheit (KfV), 2007
Millions of injury admissions each year – billions of avoidable health care costs!
Table 4: Hospital discharges due to injuries, EU27: Minimum and maximum values by country
Source: Eurostat, 3 year average of latest available years (mostly 2001-2003). Data presentation: Kuratorium für Verkehrssicherheit (KfV), 2007
Hospital discharges
due to injury
2 Source: “A surveillance based model to calculate the direct medical costs in Europe” – Final Report. DG Sanco Public Health / Consumer Safety Institute, Amsterdam 2004.
In % of all hospital
discharges
BE 167 569 9.9%
BG 85 629 7.1%
CZ 189 108 8.1%
DK 83 737 9.1%
DE 1 623 443 10.2%
EE 17 119 6.5%
IE 50 880 10.1%
EL 151 071 9.3%
ES 371 924 8.3%
FR 937 344 8.5%
IT 819 462 9.0%
CY 7 517 15.6%
LV 52 075 10.5%
LT 73 427 8.7%
LU 6 061 7.7%
HU 145 895 5.9%
MT 2 473 6.2%
NL 129 466 8.2%
AT 231 815 10.0%
PL 416 627 7.9%
PT 73 573 7.6%
RO 302 441 6.6%
SI 30 204 9.5%
SK 80 789 7.4%
FI 102 706 8.0%
SE 124 218 8.6%
UK 720 862 9.1%
EU27 6 997 435 8.7%
Hospital admissions due to accidents and injuries in the EU27 sum up to almost 7 million - which is almost the population of Bulgaria and
nearly nine percent of all hospital admissions in the EU (Figure 10).
The cost per capita for an injury admission in the former EU15 has been estimated to be approximately 30 Euros 2 ; a cautious extrapolation
of this cost to 490 million inhabitants in the EU27 yields at least 15 billion Euros for the treatment of injury inpatients.
On average about 1 500 hospital discharges due to injuries per 100 000 inhabitants in the EU27 are reported per year. A wide range of
discharges exists between Member States, from 540 in Malta to 2 858 in Austria, which reflects differences in national hospital admissions.
Less variation is shown in the share of hospital discharges due to injuries from all hospital discharges: the EU average is about 9% and it
ranges from 6% in Hungary to 16% in Cyprus (Table 4).
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