Table 3. Percentage of respondentsa reporting health-harming behaviours by country, in eight eastern European countries, 2010–2013.
Behaviour | Percentage of respondents (no. HHB/n) |
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Overall | Albania | Latvia | Lithuania | Montenegro | Romania | Russian Federation | The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia | Turkey | |
Smoker | 27.2 (2 888/10 603) | 22.0 (307/1 395) | 40.5 (403/995) | 32.5 (431/1 325) | 16.3 (168/1 029) | 32.9 (494/1 501) | 21.2 (297/1 401) | 26.9 (323/1 199) | 26.5 (465/1 758) |
Physical inactivity | 17.0 (1 274/7 481) | NA | 5.5 (53/960) | 17.0 (231/1 359) | 26.7 (278/1 042) | 20.6 (313/1 519) | 16.1 (225/1 401) | 14.5 (174/1 200) | NA |
Five or more sexual partners | 14.0 (1 186/8 498) | 9.2 (129/1 395) | 16.2 (141/871) | 11.1 (138/1 247) | 16.7 (158/945) | 20.9 (302/1 446) | 15.5 (217/1 401) | 8.5 (101/1 193) | NA |
Sexual intercourse when aged < 16 years | 12.8 (1 107/8 665) | 13.3 (185/1 392) | 21.9 (203/926) | 5.5 (70/1 277) | 9.8 (97/988) | 12.1 (180/1 483) | 19.5 (273/1 400) | 8.3 (99/1 199) | NA |
Drug abuse | 12.0 (1 271/10 604) | 4.1 (57/1 395) | 27.7 (277/1 001) | 29.2 (397/1 359) | 10.5 (109/1 037) | 15.2 (230/1 518) | 4.8 (67/1 401) | 5.4 (65/1 198) | 4.1 (69/1 695) |
Problematic use of alcohol | 9.2 (885/9 611) | 12.0 (168/1 395) | NA | 9.0 (123/1 361) | 8.5 (88/1 038) | 7.2 (109/1 520) | 10.5 (147/1 401) | 6.5 (78/1 200) | 10.1 (172/1 696) |
Attempted suicide | 4.1 (364/8 889) | 3.6 (50/1 395) | 6.3 (63/996) | 4.6 (62/1 344) | 2.7 (28/1 041) | 4.4 (66/1 512) | 4.2 (59/1 401) | 3.0 (36/1 200) | NA |
HHB: health-harming behaviour; NA: not available.
a The percentage of respondents reporting health-harming behaviours should not be compared directly because the sampling process differed between countries.