Health at a Glance: Asia/Pacific 2018
Measuring Progress towards Universal Health Coverage
This fifth edition of Health at a Glance Asia/Pacific presents a set of key indicators of health status, the determinants of health, health care resources and utilisation, health care expenditure and financing and quality of care across 27 Asia-Pacific countries and territories. It also provides a series of dashboards to compare performance across countries, and a thematic analysis on health inequalities. Drawing on a wide range of data sources, it builds on the format used in previous editions of Health at a Glance, and gives readers a better understanding of the factors that affect the health of populations and the performance of health systems in these countries and territories. Each of the indicators is presented in a user-friendly format, consisting of charts illustrating variations across countries and over time, brief descriptive analyses highlighting the major findings conveyed by the data, and a methodological box on the definition of the indicator and any limitations in data comparability. An annex provides additional information on the demographic context in which health systems operate.
Also available in: Korean
Tobacco
Tobacco use is the leading global cause of preventable deaths and kills more than 7 million people each year, of whom more than 6 million are from direct tobacco use and around 900 000 are non-smokers exposed to second-hand smoke (WHO, 2018a). It is estimated that there were 1 1 million current smokers in 2015, 84% of which were males (WHO, 2018c). The UN SDGs call for strengthening the implementation of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in all countries, as appropriate.
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