Europeans are living longer, but health officials say certain risks -- such as obesity and undervaccination - threaten to slow or even reverse this progress. Europeans added more than a year to their average lifespan over the course of five years: from 76.7 years in 2010 to 77.8 in 2015.
Europe is unique among the WHO regions in how it's going beyond the numbers to try to unravel why some places are healthier than others - conducting interviews and relying on experts like social scientists to tell them what statistics can't.
