Legislation on public health issues in Austria is fragmented and in some cases outdated and patchy according to the

European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies The European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies is a public health observatory established through an intergovernmental partnership, hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe, which specialises in the develo ...

. There is an Austrian Public Health Association (Österreichische Gesellschaft für Public Health). A new measure of expected

human capital Human capital is a concept used by social scientists to designate personal attributes considered useful in the production process. It encompasses employee knowledge, skills, know-how, good health, and education. Human capital has a substantial ...

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 ''The Lancet'' is a weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal and one of the oldest of its kind. It is also the world's highest-impact academic journal. It was founded in England in 1823. The journal publishes original research articles, ...

in September 2018. Austria had the nineteenth highest level of expected human capital with 24 health, education, and learning-adjusted expected years lived between age 20 and 64 years.

History

Between 1914 and 1918 the average weight of a nine year old in Vienna dropped from 30kg to 22.8kg. Milk consumption in the city fell in the same period from 900,000 litres daily to 70,000.

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