Health conditions of the elderly

Life expectancy at 65 years in Italy (18.9 years for men and 22.2 for women in 2015) was one year higher than the European Union […]

World suicide prevention day

On the occasion of the World suicide prevention day (10 september 2017), Istat presents in an infographic some characteristics of this phenomenon in the recent […]

The system of health accounts in Italy

Istat disseminates for the first time the estimates for the system of health accounts with reference to the period 2012-2016. The system of health accounts […]

Use of alcohol

In 2016 the percentage of population aged 11 and over who had consumed at least one alcoholic drink during the year was 64.7%. This rate […]

Condition and integration of foreign citizens

In 2011-2012 Istat (Italian National Institute of Statistics) conducted the first national survey on Social Condition and Integration of Foreign Citizens (SCIF). The SCIF survey […]

Risk factors to health

In 2015, 19.6% of the population aged 14 and over were smokers (10,344 millions of the population), 22.8% were former smokers and 56.3% no smokers. […]

Aspects of daily life

“Aspects of daily life” is a large annual sample survey that covers the resident population in private households, by interviewing a sample of 20.000 households […]

Home accidents

In 2014, about 700 thousand people –11.3‰ of the population – experienced an accident at home. There were a total of 783,000 accidents, with an […]

Residential care facilities

In Italy, residential care facilities, active at 31st December 2013, were 12,261, with 384,450 beds (6.3 for every 1,000 residents). The majority of the residential […]

People with impairments or severe chronicity

In 2013 about 13 million persons aged 15 and over have functional limitations. For this people the interaction between health conditions and behavioural factors may […]