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 Beds (practised allotment) in hospitals per 1000 inhabitants (No.)
Characteristic Description
Name Beds (practised allotment) in hospitals per 1000 inhabitants (No.) by Geographic localization (NUTS - 2024); Annual
Regularity Quinquennial
Source Statistics Portugal, Hospitals survey
First available period 2022
Last available period 2022
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Geographic localization (NUTS - 2024)
Concepts
  • HOSPITAL:  Health establishment that provides curative and rehabilitation health care in inpatient and outpatient services, which may collaborate in the prevention of diseases, teaching and scientific research.
  • BED:  Equipment intended for the stay of an individual in a health care establishment.
  • 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 The number of hospital beds corresponds to the practiced capacity in the reference year, that is, it results from the arithmetic average of the number of hospital beds counted on the last day of each quarter of the reference year.
Formule

[Number of beds (practised allotment) in hospitals / Average annual resident population]*1000
Measure unit (symbol) Number (No.)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 06/04/2024


information presented in 23/11/2024