What is Health in Switzerland?
In 2015, Switzerland had the lowest mortality rate in Europe, at 331 per 100,000 population. It had the highest rate of death from [[Substance abuse|drug use]] at 3 per 100,000. Life expectancy in 2013 was 80.5 years for men and 84.8 years for women.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/en/index/themen/01/06/blank/key/04/04.html |title=Components of population change – Data, indicators: Life expectancy |publisher=Swiss Federal Statistical Office, Neuchâtel 2014 |year=2013 |access-date=2014-12-03}}</ref> There are 220,000 regular consumers of [[Cannabis (drug)|cannabis]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=swissinfo.ch/urs|date=2022-04-19|title=Health office approves first Swiss project to sell cannabis for recreational use|url=https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/society/health-office-paves-way-for-test-with-recreational-cannabis/47527102|access-date=2023-11-28|website=SWI swissinfo.ch|language=en}}</ref> Mental health problems are common, affecting about a fifth of the population. <ref>{{Cite web|date=2008-01-14|title=Swiss count the cost of mental illness|url=https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-count-the-cost-of-mental-illness/6361418|access-date=2023-11-28|website=SWI swissinfo.ch|language=en}}</ref> [[Goitre]] and associated [[Deaf-mute|deaf-muteism]] was widespread in [[Switzerland]] until the 1920s. In 1921 30% of 19-year-old Swiss [[Conscription|conscripts]] had a goitre. In [[Bern]], 94% of schoolchildren had some swelling of the neck and almost 70% had a goitre. About 10% of children were born with what was then known as cretinism. They grew little more than a metre tall, and had compressed features, thick skin, thin hair and distended bellies. They could not hear or speak and were profoundly [[Brain damage|brain-damaged]]. In 1883 a survey of goitre found rates were low in the [[Jura Mountains|Jura mountains]] and in the southern canton of [[Ticino]], but very high in the rest of the country. In some villages one third of the people were deaf. Dr Heinrich Hunziker, a GP in [[Adliswil]], discovered