Country Demographic and Health Profile for Romania

This document provides an overview of the demographic and health profile of Romania. It discusses the behavioural risk factors contributing to half of the deaths in the country, the prevalence of tuberculosis and measles, the impact of chronic diseases on women above 65, the decline in good health proportion due to aging, and the increase in deaths due to cardiovascular diseases and cancer. The document also highlights the influence of education on life expectancy in Romania.

Country demographic and
health profile for Romania

Table of Contents.
Table of Contents..................................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................3
Conclusion............................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES.....................................................................................................................................6

Half of the deaths in Romania are due to behavioural risk factors
Lower physical activities, consumptions of alcohol, usage of tobacco as well as poor diet are the
behavioural risk factors which are the cause of half of the deaths in Romania. Low physical
activities accounts for 4% of the cause of death in Romania while consumptions of alcohol is
accountable for 14 % in the country. Second hand as well as direct smoking by the usage of tobacco
is responsible for 17% of death of the people of Romania. Additionally, excessive consumptions of
salt & sugar as well as in appropriate intake of vegetables and fruits which contributes to 27% of the
dietary risks which the country Romania faces as the behavioural risk factor which is accountable
for half of the deaths.
Behavioural risk factors are generally observed due to lower levels of income or educations within
the people of Romania, which is also the cause of obesity in the people of the country. Moreover, it
has been observed that people with higher and lower income group are approximately having the
similar rate of smoking habit.
Heavy alcohol consumptions in around every third Romanian is been observed in the past years.
Moreover, every fifty individual in Romania tends to smoke on daily basis. Thus, these all
contributes to behavioural risks which are faced by half of the population of the country Romania
(England and Azzopardi-Muscat, 2017).
Tuberculosis as an important issue in regards to public health in Romania
The public of Romania has faced the critical health issue of measles and TB (tuberculosis), these
are considered to be as infectious diseases which several of Romanian people had faced. Although,
the cases of this disease has been declined over the past years but this disease has been reported as
present highest in European Union which has been approximately 13000 cases in the year 2017.
The indication of TB or the symptoms of TB had too been reduced in the European Union but
however, it remained highest in the country i.e. it had reached to 10.7 per one million individuals
from 66.2. The country Romania had faced the health issue of measles too whose rates of
notifications of symptoms were around 26.2 in European union earlier and it had reached to 102.1
per million in the year 2018 (Petrescu and et.al, 2017).
Women above 65 got affected to the chronic diseases or the diseases of disability
Earlier in 2000 the Romanian women were expected to live for 14.7 years more after the age of 65.
While in the year 2017 this life expectancy has been increased to two more years i.e. it had reached
to 16.7 years. Although, it has been observed that the chronic diseases or the disease of disability is
been common in European Union for the women above the age of 65. On the other hand the life
expectancy of the men of Romania is approximately two three years lesser than that of the women
above the age of 65. Thus, the years of healthy life in the pubic of Romania can be summarized as
5.9 years for women and 5.1 years for the men in the year 2017 (Linc and et.al, 2017).

Due to more age the good health proportion of Romanian has been declined
Although most of the Romanian were reported as being living the good healthy life but due to more
years of living compared to the public of European Union the country has faced the decline in the
proportion of good health. It has been determined that in the year 2017 around 17% of the
Romanian which is approximately three quarters were living as good healthy life. Moreover, in
comparison to other countries where the ration of good health is been decreased with the increasing
age (Gumà, Solé-Auró and Arpino, 2019).
Deaths due to cardiovascular diseases as well as increase in deaths due to cancer has been
increased
In the year 2016, approximately 550 individuals had died in the population of 100000; this was due
to heart disease or the stroke, which was one of the critical causes of death in Romania. In
comparison to European Union, the rate of death due to ischemic heart disease is found to be three
times higher in the country Romania. In the year 2016 and average of 80 individuals lead to death
over the population of 100000 in European Union while it was 256 in Romania due to stroke.
Although this has been reduced since the year 2000 but still it remained at the second leading cause
of death.
In the year 2000, due to higher rate of smoking in the country Romania approximately 14% of the
individuals were reported died due to cause of cancer or more specifically, due to the lung cancer.
Deaths due to breast cancers or the colorectal has been observed increased in number in the past
few years (Duralia, 2018).
Level of education has sometimes affected the life expectancy of the individuals of Romania
From the latest studies it has been observed that the expectancy of life for an individual having less
education is 10 years less for the male at age of 30, while in the European Union the results are like
7.6 years which is slightly lower than that of Romanians. On the other hand, the women with lower
education in Romania is tends to live 4 years lesser at the age of 30 (Vîlcea and Avram, 2019).
Conclusion

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