The European Health Report is produced every three years as a flagship publication by the WHO Regional Office for Europe. The aims of the 2021 edition are to provide insight into Regional progress towards the health-related Sustainable Development Goals and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on population health, thereby focusing on health inequalities and how the pandemic is affecting these. In addition, the report describes how the Regional Office, through implementation of the European Programme of Work 2020–2025, aims to support Member States in tackling the major challenges in the Region and building back better after the pandemic. As strong health information systems will be an important prerequisite for these endeavours, the report describes how WHO will support all Member States in tackling the main gaps in data and information that are currently hampering the evidence-informed implementation of the European Programme of Work, WHO’s global Thirteenth General Programme of Work 2019–2023 and the Sustainable Development Goals.

This report contains detailed data on alcohol consumption (from pdf p.67, tobacco use p.74, and information on drug use throughout the report)