Demographics
EU: cohesion and depopulation
Monday 23 January 2023 |
OBC Transeuropa In the whole of South-Eastern Europe, the data on depopulation are dramatic and require urgent reflections. In the rest of Europe the trend is less negative, but remains alarming.
Croatia: suicide is a public health issue
Thursday 31 March 2022 |
Marina Kelava | H-Alter
Croatia has not yet adopted a national suicide prevention strategy, despite the suicide rate recorded in the country being higher than the European and global average.
Ten European countries pay egg donors anywhere from 250 to 2,000 euros
Thursday 03 March 2022 |
Ángela Bernardo Antonio Hernández
| Civio
In addition to economic or altruistic motivation, anonymity plays a key role in egg or sperm donation, although an increasing number of countries require disclosure of donor identities.
More than half of European countries prohibit access to assisted reproduction for lesbians and almost a third do so for single women
Tuesday 02 November 2021 |
Eva Belmonte María Álvarez Del Vayo
Ángela Bernardo
Carmen Torrecillas
Antonio Hernández
| Civio
The situation is much more difficult for trans and intersex people. In addition to the legal barriers, they face economic stumbling blocks: most public health systems cover only part of the costs or have very long wait lists or narrow access criteria.
Assisted reproduction in Hungary has a success rate of 2%
Tuesday 15 February 2022 |
Laszlo Arato | EUrologus
Erika and her husband have tried in-vitro fertilisation four times since 2017, but after two implantations without success they had enough of the overworked Hungarian healthcare system and decided to try their luck abroad. They have never regretted their decision.
Spain, Czechia, Denmark and Belgium are the meccas of reproductive tourism
Wednesday 10 November 2021 |
Ángela Bernardo Eva Belmonte
María Álvarez Del Vayo
Carmen Torrecillas
| Civio
Barriers in many European countries push thousands of people abroad to access assisted reproductive technology techniques. In some cases, they take out huge loans to pay for the treatments.
Useful data on assisted reproduction in Europe
Tuesday 30 November 2021 |
OBC Transeuropa The sources which were used for EDJNet's data-driven investigation on access to assisted reproduction techniques in Europe.
The postcode lottery of publicly-funded assisted reproduction in Spain
Monday 29 November 2021 |
María Álvarez Del Vayo Eva Belmonte
Ángela Bernardo
Carmen Torrecillas
Olalla Tuñas
Miguel Ángel Gavilanes
| Civio
Many autonomous communities are not providing the bare minimum of provision in Spain’s health service and are using stripped back services, age limits and imposing fees in order to avoid providing the service.
Homicide and suicide rates in the EU are falling
Wednesday 17 February 2021 |
Laszlo Arato | EUrologus
Over the last ten years, there were significantly fewer homicides in the EU. Suicide rates have also dropped. While the situation in certain northern countries is less rosy, there were considerably fewer violent deaths per 100,000 people in the South.
One in three European regions have higher COVID-19 deaths in second wave
Monday 14 December 2020 |
Clara Guibourg | Newsworthy
Compared to the first wave in spring, excess deaths this autumn are less concentrated in a few hard-hit regions. As Europe’s second wave begins to pass its peak, we’ve gathered data from over 750 regions in Europe so as to track the real toll of the pandemic.
