The project focuses on health inequalities and decreasing early death. In spite of the progress, however, the threat that man will die younger than 64 years is still higher in the Czech Republic than in the old 15 EU countries. In 2002, the risk threatened every fourth Czech man and every ninth Czech woman, compared with every sixth man and every 12th woman in the old EU 15. The situation was slightly better only in Slovenia than in the Czech Republic among the ten post-communist countries that joined the EU in 2004 and 2007. The risk of early death Czech men faced dropped by more than 9 percent in 1990-2002, the decrease Czech PM signs agreement on Czech accession to ESA ...
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(Ceske Noviny)
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