Editing Greece (section)

=== Healthcare system ===
{{Main|Healthcare in Greece}}

Greece has [[universal health care]]. The system is mixed, combining a national health service with [[social health insurance]] (SHI). Per a 2000 [[World Health Organization|World Health Organisation]] report, its [[health system]] ranked 14th in overall performance of 191 countries surveyed.<ref name="WHO report">{{cite web |url=https://www.who.int/whr/2000/en/whr00_en.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040917211911/http://www.who.int/whr/2000/en/whr00_en.pdf |archive-date=17 September 2004 |url-status=live | title = Health Systems: Improving Performance |website=[[World Health Report]] | year = 2000 |publisher = [[World Health Organization]] |access-date=22 July 2011}}</ref> In a 2013 [[Save the Children]] report, Greece was ranked the 19th out of 176 countries for the state of mothers and newborn babies.<ref name="Save the Children report">{{cite web|url=http://www.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.8585863/k.9F31/State_of_the_Worlds_Mothers.htm|title=State of the World's Mothers 2013|year=2013|publisher=[[Save the Children]]|access-date=7 May 2013|archive-date=5 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130505125839/http://www.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.8585863/k.9F31/State_of_the_Worlds_Mothers.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> {{As of|2014}}, there were 124 public hospitals, of which 106 were general hospitals and 18 specialised hospitals, with a total capacity of about 30,000 beds.<ref>Hellenic Statistical Authority, 2018</ref>

Greece's health care expenditures was 9.6% of GDP in 2007. By 2015, it declined to 8.4%, compared with the EU average of 9.5%. Nevertheless, the country maintains the highest doctor-to-population ratio of any OECD country<ref name="OECD">{{cite web|url=http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/45/54/38979850.pdf |website=Health Data |year=2011 |title=How Does Greece Compare |publisher=[[Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development]] |access-date=22 July 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090902163839/http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/45/54/38979850.pdf |archive-date=2 September 2009 }}</ref> and the highest doctor-to-patient ratio in the EU.<ref name=":0">Economou C, Kaitelidou D, Karanikolos M, Maresso A. Greece: Health system review. Health Systems in Transition, 2017; 19(5):1–192.</ref>

[[Life expectancy]] is among the highest in the world; life expectancy in 2015 was 81.1 years, slightly above the EU average of 80.6.<ref name=":0" /> The island of [[Icaria]] has the highest percentage of nonagenarians in the world; 33% of islanders are 90 or older.<ref name="NPR">{{cite news|title=The Island Where People Live Longer|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103744881|access-date=6 April 2013|newspaper=NPR|date=2 May 2009|quote=Buettner and a team of demographers work with census data to identify blue zones around the world. They found Icaria had the highest percentage of 90-year-olds anywhere on the planet&nbsp;— nearly 1 out of 3 people make it to their 90s.}}</ref> Icaria is subsequently classified as a "[[Blue Zone]]", a region where people allegedly live longer than average and have lower rates of cancer, heart disease, or other chronic illnesses.<ref name="NYT">{{cite news|title=The Island Where People Forget to Die|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/magazine/the-island-where-people-forget-to-die.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220102/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/magazine/the-island-where-people-forget-to-die.html |archive-date=2 January 2022 |url-access=limited |url-status=live|access-date=6 April 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=24 October 2012|author=DAN BUETTNER}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

A 2011, OECD report showed Greece had the largest percentage of adult daily smokers of any of the 34 OECD members.<ref name="OECD" /> The obesity rate is 18%, above the OECD average of 15%.<ref name="OECD" />

In 2008, infant mortality, with a rate of 3.6 deaths per 1,000 live births, was below the 2007 OECD average of 4.9.<ref name="OECD" />