Health as one of the goals of the agenda 2030. Poland in comparison with EU countries

2030 Agenda for sustainable development is a plan of world development that assumes elimination of poverty, decent life for all the people and ensuring peace by 2030. Health issues are one of the essential objectives of Agenda 2030. The purpose of the paper is to evaluate the position of Poland in comparison with the European Union states with respect to selected indices of health condition and health care, as well as to test, with the use of taxonomic methods, which European Union states are similar in terms of health protection. The analysis of the basic health and health care indices shows considerable diversity among European countries with respect to the residents’ health situation, size of expenditures on health care or the number of medical staff. Conducted analysis shows that in 2017 most European Countries (15 out of 28) were countries of high and moderate level of health situation and health care. In the ranking of EU countries analysed with respect to the level of health condition and health care, in 2017 the leading positions were occupied by Sweden, Finland, Holland, Ireland and Spain, whereas Latvia, Romania, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Croatia and Hungary were at the end of the list.