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The majority of the countries in the world dedicate a high percentage of their budget to their Health Care System. In addition, this percentage grows year by year. For that reason, the Health Care evaluation and its repercussion in the improvement of the population health are very important. The aim of this paper is to determine the mean socioeconomic variables that influence the healthy life expectancy in the European countries. Taking 16 variables of social, economic, sanitary and environmental character, for the periods 2003 and 2004 in 22 European countries. The information of the 15 variables is transformed by a factorial analysis. The relation between the variables and the healthy life expectancy by means of a regression analysis. And a classification of the countries is made using the analysis cluster. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]