Do Changes in Welfare and Health Policy Affect Life Satisfaction of Older Citizens in Europe?

Table 4

Mean scores on the health indicators subjective health, percentage of long-standing illness/health problem, and percentage of self-reported unmet needs because they were too expensive per country in 2006 and 2014.

	% Subjective health (very good)		% Long-standing illness/health problem 16 years and over		% Self-reported unmet needs, reason: too expensive, 16 years and over
	2006	2014	2006	2014	2006	2014
Belgium	28	30	25	26	0.4	2.2
Bulgaria	21	17	30	20	16.3	4.4
Czech R	19	19	30	29	0.2	0.5
Denmark	41	27	29	27	0.2	0.4
Germany	14	17	39	39	4.2	0.6
Estonia	7	11	34	46	2.7	0.5
Greece	51	45	18	21	4.5	9.7
Spain	17	17	23	28	0.2	0.5
France	25	24	34	36	1.3	2.3
Croatia	17	25	—	31	—	1.4
Cyprus	49	45	28	34	3.0	4.6
Lithuania	6	7	34	29	4.7	0.7
Luxembourg	32	25	25	18	0.2	0.6
Hungary	13	18	35	35	1.5	2.1
Netherlands	21	23	32	35	0.1	0.4
Austria	37	32	21	37	0.4	0.1
Poland	15	17	34	38	5.6	3.1
Portugal	7	8	30	40	3.4	3.0
Romania	25	28	19	18	11.0	8.2
Slovenia	16	21	37	32	0.0	0.1
Slovakia	23	20	26	28	2.1	0.9
Finland	44	21	39	42	1.0	0.1
Sweden	34	33	35	32	0.9	0.5
UK	33	32	38	33	0.1	0.1
Iceland	50	40	25	30	0.8	3.4
Norway	28	32	31	35	0.4	0.2
Switzerland	25	33	34	36	0.9	1.0
Ireland	47	43	25	28	1.2	6.2
Italy	13	14	23	24	3.0	7.0
Latvia	3	4	36	41	11.7	10.5
Malta	31	20	20	28	1.4	0.9