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Access to sanitation	100%		[12th of 129]
Age of women at first childbirth	26.3 years old		[11th of 17]
DEFINITION: Average age of women at first chilbirth for selected OECD countries.
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, December 2003
Breast cancer incidence	21.5 per 100,000 females		[15th of 26]
DEFINITION: Breast cancer incidence per 100,000 females.
SOURCE: OECD
Daily smokers	36.3%		[1st of 30]
DEFINITION: Data on tobacco consumption - this is a percentage of the total population who smoke at least one cigarette a day.(Data for Portugal and Austria is from 2002. All other data is from 2003).
SOURCE: World Health Organization
Death from cancer	280 deaths per 100,000 peopl		[13th of 16]
DEFINITION: Cancer death incidence (per 100 000 population) for year 2000.
SOURCE: OECD Health Data 2005
Drug access	95%		[28th of 163]
DEFINITION: Population with access to essential drugs 2000. The data on access to essential drugs are based on statistical estimates received from World Health Organization (WHO) country and regional offices and regional advisers and through the World Drug Situation Survey carried out in 1998-99. These estimates represent the best information available to the WHO Department of Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy to date and are currently being validated by WHO member states. The department assigns the estimates to four groupings: very low access (0-49%), low access (50-79%), medium access (80-94%) and good access (95-100%). These groupings, used here in presenting the data, are often employed by the WHO in interpreting the data, as the actual estimates may suggest a higher level of accuracy than the data afford. b.
SOURCE: OECD Health Data 2004
Heart disease deaths	109.3 per 100,000 people		[12th of 26]
DEFINITION: Heart disease deaths per 100000 population (1995-1998)
SOURCE: WHO (World Health Organization). 2001. Correspondence on access to essential drugs. Department of Essential Drugs and Medecines Policy. February. Geneva
Hospital beds	8.8 per 1,000 people		[7th of 29]
DEFINITION: Hospital beds per 1,000 people
SOURCE: World Health Organization
Hospital beds > per 1,000 people	8.3 per 1,000 people		[7th of 149]
DEFINITION: Hospital beds include inpatient beds available in public, private, general, and specialized hospitals and rehabilitation centers. In most cases beds for both acute and chronic care are included.		View time series
SOURCE: OECD
Infant mortality rate	4.68		[167th of 179]
DEFINITION: The number of deaths of infants under one year old in a given year per 1,000 live births in the same year. This rate is often used as an indicator of the level of health in a country
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Motor vehicle deaths	10.4 deaths per 100,000 peopl		[7th of 17]
DEFINITION: Fatalities per 100000 population due to motor vehicle accidents (1999).
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
Obesity	9.1%		[24th of 29]
DEFINITION: Percentage of total population who have a BMI (body mass index) greater than 30 Kg/sq.meters (Data for Australia, Austria and Portugal is from 2002. All other data is from 2003). Obesity rates are defined as the percentage of the population with a Body Mass Index (BMI) over 30. The BMI is a single number that evaluates an individual's weight status in relation to height (weight/height2, with weight in kilograms and height in metres). For Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, figures are based on health examinations, rather than self-reported information. Obesity estimates derived from health examinations are generally higher and more reliable than those coming from self-reports, because they preclude any misreporting of people's height and weight. However, health examinations are only conducted regularly in a few countries (OECD).
SOURCE: GECD Health Data 2002
Physicians > per 1,000 people	3.4 per 1,000 people		[15th of 148]
DEFINITION: Physicians are defined as graduates of any facility or school of medicine who are working in the country in any medical field (practice, teaching, research).		View time series
SOURCE: OECD Health Data 2005
Spending > Per person	2,121		[13th of 133]
DEFINITION: Spending per capita (PPP) in $US 1998.
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Suicide rate > Gender ratio	3.2 per 100,000 people		[40th of 76]
DEFINITION: Suicide rates per 100,000 people
SOURCE: World Bank. 2002. World Development Indicators 2002. CD-ROM. Washington, DC
Suicide rate > Young males	21.1 per 100,000 people		[17th of 43]
DEFINITION: Suicide death rates (per 100,000 of population) among 15 to 24 year-olds, various countries, latest available data, 1991 to 1993
SOURCE: annual figures:WHO databank, National Bureaus of Statistics. Department of Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis Population Division (1995). World population prospects. The 1994 revision. New York: United Nations. Partly computations: Department of Clinical Psychology, Psychiatric Clinic, University of W?rzburg, Germany
Teen birth rate	23		[23rd of 40]
DEFINITION: Average number of births for every 1,000 girls aged 15 to 19
SOURCE: WHO, World Health Statistics Annual, 1994, Australian Bureau of Statistics, 1994
Teenage pregnancy	3,275 births		[16th of 26]
DEFINITION: Number of births to women aged below twenty. Data for 1998.
SOURCE: United Nations Population Division, World Population Prospects: The 1994 Revision, 1994
Tobacco > Cigarette consumption	2,073		[19th of 106]
DEFINITION: Approximate average number of cigarettes smoked per adult per year
SOURCE: UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre
Tobacco > Total adult smokers	24.5		[75th of 121]
DEFINITION: Total adults smoking
SOURCE: World Health Organization

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