Luxembourg Sustainability and Health

Luxembourg has a high per capita expenditure on health services in comparison to its surrounding region. The amount of money spent by individuals is just under 8k US$ in comparison to the average of 2k US$ for the Who region. This is one reason why Luxembourg is a healthy nation relatively. Like other affluent nations, the main causes of death are cancers and heart disease. This is similar to that of the US and other highly developed nations. One interesting aspect is that it appears women are greenly healthier than men in this nation. For both raised blood glucose and obesity, men were higher than the WHO region. The male glucose levels was 9.9% and the obesity rate was 24.5% compared to the WHO region of 9.6% and 20.4% receptively. For women the blood glucose level is 6.7% in comparison to the WHO region of 8% and the obesity rate is 22.2% versus 23.1% for the WHO region.