Health in Slovenia

A new measure of expected human capital calculated for 195 countries from 1990 to 2016 and defined for each birth cohort as the expected years lived from age 20 to 64 years and adjusted for educational attainment, learning or education quality, and functional health status was published by The Lancet in September 2018.

[1] According to a 2011 publication in CMAJ:[2] Slovenia has one of the world's most aggressive and comprehensive vaccination programs.

Within the first three months of life, infants must be vaccinated for tuberculosis, tetanus, polio, pertussis, and Haemophilus influenza type B.

While a medical exemption request can be submitted to a committee, such an application for reasons of religion or conscience would not be acceptable.

Failure to comply results in a fine and compliance rates top 95%, Kraigher says, adding that for nonmandatory vaccines, such as the one for human papilloma virus, coverage is below 50%.