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 Functional units (No.) of official clinics
Characteristic Description
Name Functional units (No.) of official clinics by Geographic localization (NUTS - 2002) and Type of unit; Annual
Regularity Annual
Source Statistics Portugal, Official clinics survey
First available period 2009
Last available period 2012
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Geographic localization (NUTS - 2002)
  • Type of unit
Concepts
  • PRIMARY HEALTH CENTRE:  A unit of public health services that is targeted at promoting health, preventing disease and providing care, by intervening in the first line of action of the National Health Service and ensuring continuity of care, whenever there is the need to resort to other specialised services and care. It aims at both individual and family health and group and community health, through appropriate care, while taking into account practices recommended by the technical guidelines in force, disease diagnosis and treatment, generally directing its action to the individual, the family and the community. It may provide in-patient care.
  • FUNCTIONAL UNIT TO PROVIDE HEALTH CARE :  Unit of official clinics and official clinic groupings which relies on a multidisciplinary team with technical and organizational autonomy.
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
Measure unit (symbol) Number (No.)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 02/05/2014


information presented in 17/7/2024