Overweight United Kingdom has an obesity problem Despite a high share of obese inhabitants (27th), the UK has one of the lowest rates of death from cardiovascular diseases. View this data Innovation Patents need attention The UK's strong performance in the Innovation Vital Sign (5th) could be further improved if the country were to produce more patents for pharmaceuticals (13th). View this data Rate of medicine availability Good availability of medicines Placing 1st, the United-Kingdom performed exceptionally well on the share of medicines authorized by the European Medicine Agency that the population has access to. View this data