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Population aged 15 years and over rating their own health as bad or very bad, 2021: 6.4%
Adults aged 65 and over rating their own health as poor or very poor, by income, 2021
– Lowest quintile: 13%
– Highest quintile: 5%
– Total: 9%
Limitations in daily activities in adults aged 65 and over, 2021
– Severe Limitations: 7%
– Some Limitations: 21%
Estimated prevalence of dementia per 1,000 population, 2021: 14.7
Estimated prevalence of dementia per 1,000 population, 2040: 18.3

Source: OECD (2023), Health at a Glance 2023: OECD Indicators, OECD Publishing, Paris, doi.org/10.1787/7a7afb35-en.

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“The Ministry of Health and Social Affairs is responsible for issues concerning social welfare, such as public health, health care and care of older people. The ministry’s area of responsibility also includes social insurance, which provides financial security to people when they are sick or elderly, or when children are young. Issues concerning individual and family care, support for people with disabilities and care of elderly individuals are also included. The Ministry also works on rights for people with disabilities and on issues related to the premium pension system. It is also responsible for issues concerning sport, youth policy, civil society, faith communities, and burial and cremation services.”

Source: Janlöv N, Blume S, Glenngård AH, Hanspers K, Anell A, Merkur S. Sweden: Health system review. Health Systems in Transition, 2023; 25(3): i–198.

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“The Swedish Agency for Participation (MFD – Myndigheten fördelaktighet) is an expert agency that promotes the implementationof disability policy. The agency develops and spreads informationabout obstacles to participation and supports public-sector bodies.”

Source: Janlöv N, Blume S, Glenngård AH, Hanspers K, Anell A, Merkur S. Sweden: Health system review. Health Systems in Transition, 2023; 25(3): i–198.

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“The patient and functional impairment movement consists of a range of actors – organizations as well as more loosely composed networks – that are driven by a non-profit commitment to improve the living conditions of people with functional impairment or illness in various ways. The most prominent actors in this context are the patient and disability organizations that receive government grants. The patient and disability organizations together have close to 500,000 members. The Rheumatism Association (Reumatikerförbundet), which is the largest, has around 50,000 members, but a majority of the organizations that receive government grants as disability organizations have fewer than 5,000 members (AHCSA, 2015a).”

Source: Janlöv N, Blume S, Glenngård AH, Hanspers K, Anell A, Merkur S. Sweden: Health system review. Health Systems in Transition, 2023; 25(3): i–198.

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