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 Main health professionals per 100 000 inhabitants (No.)
Characteristic Description
Name Main health professionals per 100 000 inhabitants (No.); Annual
Regularity Annual
Source Statistics Portugal, Health personnel statistics
First available period 2011
Last available period 2016
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Geographic localization (Portugal)
Concepts
  • RESIDENT POPULATION:  Set of persons who, regardless of being present or absent in a given housing unit at the moment of observation, have lived in the place of their usual residence for a continuous period of 12 months prior to the moment of observation, or have arrived to the place of their usual residence during the period of 12 months prior to the moment of observation, with the purpose of living there for a year, at least.
  • HEALTH PROFESSIONAL:  Qualified worker involved in the provision of health care.
  • 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).
Definition Health professionals include physicians, nurses, pharmacists and dentists
Formule

(Total number of health professionals registered in the end of the year/ Resident population estimated for the end of the year)*100 000
Measure unit (symbol) Number (No.)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 11/08/2017


information presented in 17/7/2024