Health in Hungary

Although death rates have decreased in Hungary since 1985, life expectancy remains low by European standards, particularly among Romani people.

The effect of the health tax, in addition to 27% VAT, increases the price of products by as much as 40% and has led to redundancies.

[3] Romani people have a life expectancy up to ten years lower than ethnic Hungarians.

[15] In 2013 WHO gave an award to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán for "accomplishments in the area of tobacco control".

According to the Hungarian Society of Cardiology approximately 40,000 people die from smoking-related causes such as cancer.

[17] A 2017 study found that primary care doctors provide insufficient treatment to those suffering from nicotine addiction and seeking to quit.

According to the last Országos Lakossági Egészségfelmérés ("National Population Health Survey") held in 2003 the most healthy region is Western Transdanubia and the least is the Southern Great Plain.

There are huge differences between the western and eastern parts of Hungary, heart disease, hypertension, stroke and suicide is prevalent in the mostly agricultural and low-income characteristic Great Plain (can be described as the Hungarian Stroke Belt), but infrequent in the high-income and middle class characteristic Western Transdanubia.