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=== Health === {{Main|Healthcare in Hungary}} [[Image:Zuglo uzsoki korhaz (1).jpg|thumb|right|Uzsoki Hospital, [[Budapest]]]] <!-- [[Image:Szentistvankorhazcivertanlegi.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Szent István Hospital on [[Üllői Avenue]], [[Budapest]]. Together with Szent László Hospital, they form the largest hospital complex in Hungary, built at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.]]--> Hungary maintains a [[universal health care]] system largely financed by government [[national health insurance]]. According to the [[OECD]], 100% of the population is [[List of countries by health insurance coverage|covered by universal health insurance]],<ref name="auto" /> which is free for children, students, pensioners, people with low income, handicapped people, and church employees.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.oep.hu/pls/portal/docs/PAGE/LAKOSSAG/OEPHULAK_EBELLAT/ELLATASMO/KIZAROLAG_EU_SZOLG_JOGOSULTAK_2013_01.PDF|title=List of the entitled people for free insurance, National Healthcare Fund, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://figyelo.hu/cikkek/376719_dozsolok_es_szukolkodok___mibol_gazdalkodnak_az_egyhazak|title=Dőzsölők és szűkölködők – Miből gazdálkodnak az egyházak?, Figyelő (financial status of the churches in Hungary, Hungarian)|website=Figyelo.hu|access-date=3 August 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150417095046/http://figyelo.hu/cikkek/376719_dozsolok_es_szukolkodok___mibol_gazdalkodnak_az_egyhazak|archive-date=17 April 2015}}</ref> Hungary spends 7.2% of GDP on healthcare, spending $2,045 per capita, of which $1,365 is provided by the government.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?DataSetCode=HEALTH_STAT|title=Health Status|website=stats.oecd.org|access-date=11 April 2019}}</ref> Hungary is one of the main destinations of [[medical tourism]] in Europe, particularly for dentistry,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.budapestagent.com/hungary-leading-dental-tourism.html|title=Hungary leading in Dental Tourism in Europe – BudapestAgent.com|date=20 June 2012|website=Budapestagent.com|access-date=3 August 2017|archive-date=19 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220319075342/http://www.budapestagent.com/hungary-leading-dental-tourism.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="BBJ1" /> in which its share is 42% in Europe and 21% worldwide.<ref name="BBJ1">{{cite web|url=http://www.bbj.hu/business/hungary-aims-at-bigger-bite-of-dental-tourism_63662|title=Hungary aims at bigger bite of dental tourism|website=Bbj.hu|access-date=3 August 2017}}</ref><ref name="BBJ2">{{cite web|url=http://www.bbj.hu/business/dental-tourism-development-clinics-turnover-up-19percent_69020|title=Dental Tourism Development clinics turnover up 19%|website=Bbj.hu|access-date=3 August 2017}}</ref> [[Plastic surgery]] is also a key sector, with 30% of the clients coming from abroad. Hungary is well known for its spa culture and is home to [[Culture of Hungary#Spa culture|numerous medicinal spas]],<ref name="IMTJ">{{cite web|url=http://www.imtj.com/news/?entryid82=416494|title=Hungarian Tourism promotes medical tourism – IMTJ|website=Imtj.com|access-date=3 August 2017}}</ref> which attract "spa tourism".<ref name="BBJ3">{{cite web|url=http://www.bbj.hu/business/medical-tourism-in-good-health_63661|title=Medical tourism in good health|website=Imtj.com|access-date=3 August 2017}}</ref> In common with developed countries, cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of mortality, accounting for 49.4% (62,979) of all deaths in 2013.<ref name="KSH">{{cite web|url=http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xstadat/xstadat_hosszu/h_wdsd001a.html|title=STADAT – 1.1. Népesség, népmozgalom (1900–)|website=Ksh.hu|access-date=3 August 2017}}</ref> However, this number peaked in 1985 with 79,355 deaths, and has been declining continuously since the fall of communism.<ref name="KSH" /> The second leading cause of death is cancer with 33,274 (26.2%), which has been stagnant since the 1990s.<ref name="KSH" /> Deaths from accidents dropped from 8,760 in 1990 to 3,654 in 2013; the number of suicides has declined precipitously from 4,911 in 1983 to 2,093 in 2013 (21.1 per 100,000 people), the lowest since 1956.<ref name="KSH" /> There are considerable health disparities between the western and eastern parts of Hungary; heart disease, hypertension, stroke, and suicide is prevalent in the mostly agricultural and low-income Great Plain region in the east, but infrequent in the high-income, middle class areas of Western Transdanubia and Central Hungary.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oefi.hu/olef/OLEF2003/Jelentesek/KronikusBbetegsegekOLEF2003.pdf|title=Egészségjelentés 2016|website=Oefi.hu|access-date=3 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404092802/http://www.oefi.hu/olef/OLEF2003/Jelentesek/KronikusBbetegsegekOLEF2003.pdf|archive-date=4 April 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> Smoking is a leading cause of death, although it is in steep decline: The proportion of adult smokers declined to 19% in 2013 from 28% in 2012, owing to strict regulations such as a nationwide smoking ban in every indoor public place and the limiting of tobacco sales to state-controlled "National Tobacco Shops".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbj.hu/economy/govt-allocates-huf-450-mln-to-company-facilitating-tobacco-sales-monopoly_64136|title=Govt allocates HUF 450 mln to company facilitating tobacco sales monopoly|website=Bbj.hu|access-date=3 August 2017|archive-date=3 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170803172219/https://bbj.hu/economy/govt-allocates-huf-450-mln-to-company-facilitating-tobacco-sales-monopoly_64136|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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