The 2022 edition of Health at a Glance: Europe examines the key challenges European countries must address to develop stronger, more resilient health systems following the acute phase of the COVID‑19 pandemic. It includes a special focus on how the pandemic has affected young people’s mental and physical health. The report emphasises the need for additional measures to prevent the COVID‑19 pandemic from scarring a generation of young people. This edition of Health at a Glance: Europe also assesses the pandemic’s disruption of a wide range of health services for non‑COVID patients, as well as the policy responses European countries deployed to mitigate the negative consequences of these disruptions. It also addresses a number of critical behavioural and environmental risk factors that have significantly impacted people's health and mortality, emphasising the importance of focusing more on the prevention of both communicable and non-communicable diseases.

P.107 Chapter 4 Risk factors
• Tobacco and cannabis smoking among children and adolescents
• Smoking among adults
• Alcohol consumption among children and adolescents
• Alcohol consumption among adults
• Illicit drug consumption among adults