Trends in Health Care 2004

Trends in Health Care is a publication released by STAKES at three-year intervals. The first publication in the series, Trends in Health Care 2004, appeared in early 2005. The publication describes the use of health services in Finland using time-series statistics. It also provides information on population trends, mortality, deliveries, induced abortions, sterilisations, IVF treatments and congenital anomalies. In addition, the publication contains information on health-care personnel, costs and hospital performance.

The texts describe the current state and trends of health care, facilitating the analysis of the statistical figures and tables. Efforts have been made to present the statistics as clearly as possible by extensive use of graphics. With the exception of population and mortality data, the information for Finland is derived from STAKES' registers and statistics. The regional analysis of health care largely takes place by hospital district. The publication also allows international comparisons by means of the statistical databases of the OECD and WHO and the statistical datasets of the EU and the Nordic countries.

Additional information: Riitta Koskinen
E-mail: forename.familyname@thl.fi

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