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According to a ranking by the British website Money, Lisbon has been ranked as the 4th healthiest city to live in 2022, with Porto coming in 14th position.
The study by the British website Money.co.uk, which publishes the “Healthiest Places to Live Index” every year, looks at factors including average life expectancy, air pollution, obesity rates, safety and the number of hours of sunlight in each location. However, this year the study also took into account factors that have gained preponderance since the beginning of the pandemic.
For the 2022 edition, they evaluated metrics such as medical care, number of nurses, psychiatrists, social workers, and psychologists in each country per 100,000 inhabitants. The study also looked at the prevalence of mental health disorders and substance use and overall health expenditure.
The study states that Lisbon has “2,806 hours of sunlight, helping citizens to absorb the all-important vitamin D, great health care and promotes some of the healthiest lifestyle habits, with lots of outdoor spaces to exercise”.
First place in the ranking belongs to Valencia, followed by Madrid, both in neighbouring Spain. The third position is occupied by Canberra, Australia.
After Lisbon, in fourth place, appears Tokyo (5th), in Japan, Zurich (6th), in Switzerland, Vienna (7th), in Austria, Chiang Mai (8th), in Thailand, Adelaide (9th), in Australia, and Ljubljana (10th), in Slovenia.
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Except during a so called plandemic.... Then you'll be locked up for 2 years in your own house....
The amount of self promotion is just ridiculous again, "oh, look how good we are!!!"
By Fred Doe from Algarve on 02 Feb 2022, 09:59
Well... there are rankings and ranking but. When reading this paper it seems that Portugal is among the best in the world in almost everything. Independent analysis with real coverage and correct scientific parameters would probably change the pictures a little.
By Jan Lindroos from Algarve on 02 Feb 2022, 17:13
Fred Doe needs to take a chill pill.
By Lisa from Other on 02 Feb 2022, 22:10
Now, do I trust a for me totally unknown source of information, or Reuters, whom I have trusted as long as I can remember?
PARIS/LISBON, Nov 12 (Reuters) - The European Commission has decided to sue Portugal for its poor air quality caused by high levels of nitrogen dioxide, it said on Friday, pointing a finger at the southern European nation for failing to take appropriate measures to tackle the issue.
"Portugal has continually and persistently exceeded the annual nitrogen dioxide limit value in three air quality zones", the Commission said in a statement, naming parts of Lisbon and Porto, the country's biggest cities, as two of those areas.
In these zones, air pollution, which remains a huge environmental health hazard across the bloc, results mostly from road traffic, especially diesel vehicles, it explained.
Nitrogen dioxide, a noxious gas emitted by cars, power plants and factories, is blamed for some respiratory and heart conditions. It is responsible for 50,000 premature deaths in the EU every year, according to the European Environment Agency (EEA).
By Bix from Lisbon on 03 Feb 2022, 00:12
Fred, as someone who lived in Ireland( probably the toughest lockdown in Europe) during the pandemic , I’m quite glad I wasn’t living in Australia
By Kieran towey from Other on 03 Feb 2022, 00:30
Fred, speaking as an Irishman, where we endured probably the toughest lockdown in Europe- I do understand that lives do matter- and I think Portugal responded admirably .
By Kieran towey from Other on 03 Feb 2022, 00:41
The amount of self promotion is just ridiculous again, "oh, look how good we are!!!"
Fred Doe, i think that remark knocking, "self promotion" in the way you have done is below the belt. Sounds like a Brit with an attitude problem to me!
By Rich from Algarve on 03 Feb 2022, 08:57
Fred, you forgot the P.
By Chris Parrish from Other on 03 Feb 2022, 08:58