Health care (until 2016)
Number of hospitals (incl. private hospitals) by county; number of hospital beds (incl. in private hospitals) by county; day-care beds. Physicians (excl. dentists), dentists, physicians of private medicine, medium-level medical personnel, nurses, midwives, assistant doctors, assistant doctors-midwives, pharmacists (with higher academic education), pharmacists (with higher professional education). Emergency aid stations and wards, physicians of emergency aid, medium-level medical personnel of emergency aid, emergency calls total, emergency calls in case of accidents, fulfilled emergency calls, persons who received aid, persons who received outpatient aid. Blood service, blood donors (incl. for the first time), blood donations. Outpatient and inpatient medical care (incl. by county). Visits to dentist (incl. by county). Home visits of physicians (incl. by county). New cases of active tuberculosis, persons with active tuberculosis at end-year. Mental and behavioural disorders. Malignant neoplasms. Cases of infectious diseases. | |
Classification of Estonian administrative units and settlements (EHAK) International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) | |
Health care institutions, health care personnel, health care services, morbidity | |
Bed day – 24 hours during which a hospitalized patient has received treatment. Blood service – timely supply of hospitals with high quality blood components. Health care personnel – personnel with special education who are directly related to provision of health care services. Hospital – residential establishment equipped with in-patient facilities for 24-hour care, staffed with professionally trained health care personnel. Hospital admission – hospitalization of a patient in an in-patient facility normally involving a stay of at least 24 hours (admitted patient). Out-patient care – health care service when a patient’s visit to health care institution is confined only to a few hours and overnight accommodation in an in-patient facility is not needed. Out-patient visit – general term to the out-patient contact, including an out-patient visit in a physician’s office and home visits, excl. contacts by phone. Out-patient visit in doctor’s office – out-patient contact of a person who needs medical consultation in the doctor’s working time. | |
Health care institution Health worker Health care service Diseased person | |
Health care institutions and family physicians with practice lists FRAME All health care institutions, health care personnel, health care services and morbidity in the given year | |
Estonia as a whole Counties | |
1940–… | |
Not applicable. |
DIRECTLY APPLICABLE LEGAL ACT Not available. OTHER LEGAL ACTS Regulation (EC) No 1338/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on Community statistics on public health and health and safety at work Personal Data Protection Act OTHER AGREEMENTS United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) |
The dissemination of data collected for the purpose of producing official statistics is guided by the requirements provided for in § 34 and § 35 of the Official Statistics Act. | |
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http://www.stat.ee/release-calendar | |
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Not published. | |
„Eesti statistika aastaraamat. Statistical Yearbook of Estonia” „Minifacts about Estonia” | |
Data are published under the heading „Social life/ Health” in the Statistical Database in http://pub.stat.ee. | |
The dissemination of data collected for the purpose of producing official statistics is guided by the requirements provided for in § 34, § 35, § 36, § 37, § 38 of the Official Statistics Act. Access to micro-data and anonymisation of micro-data are regulated by Statistics Estonia’s „Procedure for dissemination of confidential data for scientific purposes”: http://www.stat.ee/dokumendid/51669. | |
Data serve as input for statistical activities 21401 „Annual national accounts”, 21407 „Sector accounts" and 50101 „Estonian regional development”. National Institute for Health Development http://pxweb.tai.ee/esf/pxweb2008/dialog/statfile1.asp | |
Tervishoiutöötajate statistika kogumise uuendamine. Tervise Arengu Instituut (2012) https://intra.tai.ee/images/prints/documents/135513133361_Arstide%20pilootuuring.pdf | |
Tervishoiutöötajate statistika võrdlus Tervishoiutöötajate ja Tervishoiuteenuse osutamise tegevuslubade riiklike registritega arstide andmete põhjal. Tervise Arengu Instituut (2013) http://www.tai.ee/images/PDF/Metoodika/tai_ta_analyys.pdf |
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Statistics Estonia performs all statistical activities according to an international model (Generic Statistical Business Process Model – GSBPM). According to the GSBPM, the final phase of statistical activities is overall evaluation using information gathered in each phase or sub-process (this information includes, among other things, feedback from users, process metadata, system metrics and suggestions from employees). This information is used to prepare the evaluation report which outlines all the quality problems related to the specific statistical activity and serves as input for improvement actions. |
Ministry of Social Affairs Ministry of the Interior Estonian Institute for Population Studies National Institute for Health Development Users’ suggestions and information about taking them into account are available on the SE website http://www.stat.ee/tooplaan. | |
Since 1996 Statistics Estonia conducts reputation surveys and user surveys. All results are available on the website http://www.stat.ee/user-surveys. | |
In compliance with the rules (regulations). |
SURVEY DATA Not used. ADMINISTRATIVE DATA Data on health care services provided to permanent residents of Estonia are received from the National Institute for Health Development. DATA FROM OTHER STATISTICAL ACTIVITIES Data from statistical activity 30101 „Population” are used (to calculate the rates). | |
Year | |
The data to produce health care statistics is collected from all institutions providing health care services which hold a relevant activity licence and from family doctors working with practice lists. The data of health are collected and processed by the National Institute for Health Development. The data of Blood Centres also are collected by the National Institute for Health Development. Domain-specific data are collected by the units of the National Institute for Health Development – Estonian Cancer Register and Tuberculosis Database. The data of infectious diseases and emergency care are collected by the Health Board. The National Institute for the Health Development transmits processed data electronically to the Statistical Office. | |
Arithmetic and qualitative controls are used in the validation process, including comparison with other data. | |
All computations are performed by National Institute for Health Development. | |
Not applicable. |