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Nordic Health & Social Statistics | Nomesco and Nososco Research

Explore health and social statistics in the Nordic countries. Ongoing projects, old projects, database access, and possibilities for the future. Valuable resource for researchers. Contact details available.

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Nordic Health & Social Statistics | Nomesco and Nososco Research

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  1. The work of Nomesco and Nososco Mika Gissler Research professor THL National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland

  2. NOWBASE www.nowbase.org • NOWBASE is the shared website for the Nordic Medico-Statistical Committee (NOMESCO) and the Nordic Social Statistical Committee (NOSOSCO). • Two permanent committees under the Nordic Council of Ministers • Tasks: • working to ensure that health and social statistics in the Nordic Countries is comparable between countries • gathering statistics within this field and • and presenting these statistics and making them widely available • Contact: • Nomesco & Nososco secretariat E: mail@nom-nos.dk

  3. Health statistics in the Nordic Countries • Organization of the Health Services • Population and Fertility • Morbidity, Medical Treatment, Accidents and Medicinal Products • Mortality and Causes of Death • Resources

  4. Social statistics in the Nordic Countries • Changes in Nordic social policies in 2014 and 2015 • Population and income distribution • Families and children • Unemployment • Sickness and health • Old Age, Disability and Survivors • Housing benefits • Other social benefits • Social expenditure

  5. Ongoing projects • Social Inequalities in Causes of Death • Microsimulation Models in the Nordic Countries • Welfare Indicators • Patient Mobility in the Nordic Countries • Health of the Elderly More information: nowbase.org/da/current-projects

  6. Old projects • Sickness Absence in the Nordic Countries • Challenges to the Nordic Welfare State - Comparable Indicators • Financing of Health Care in the Nordic Countries • Youth Unemployment in the Nordic Countries • Report on Mortality Statistics for the Nordic / Baltic Countries • Do the Nordic Welfare Systems Encourage 60-74-Year-Olds to Work? • Old-age Pension Systems in the Nordic Countries • Sustainable Social and Health Development in the Nordic Countries More information: nowbase.org/da/publications

  7. Database More information: nowbase.org/da/database

  8. Large Excel sheets • Discharges, patients treated and bed-days in hospitals • 130 categories by 5-year age group and sex Short list for morbidity for hospital discharge statistics ISHMT • Surgery • 30 categories by 5-year age group and sex Short list for surgical procedures HDP2 • New cases of Cancer • 10 categories by 5-year age group and sex • Causes of Death • 73 categories by 5-year age group and sex

  9. Good source for research • The system descriptions cannot be found elsewhere. • All Nordic countries are participating, also Faroe Islands, Greenland and Åland Islands. • Long-term collaboration from 1946 (social statistics) and 1966 (health statistics). • Most comparable data and more accurate data than in the other international statistical data sources, e.g. Eurostat, OECD and WHO. • Interesting (but underfunded) ad hoc projects. • Soon: • New database • Publication as soon as the data are ready (not once a year)

  10. Possibilities for the future • Abandon the aggregated data collection and introduce data collection and dissemination based on individual case records. • Hospitalisations, surgical procedures, cancers, deaths, even medication (prescription registers) • Open questions: • How to solve the data protection issues? • How to support the researchers when using the data? • Funding?

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