Health

Statistics in the field of health covers two parts - health statistics and statistics on incapacity to work due to disease and accident.

Data in health statistics are collected mainly within the annual state statistical surveys performed under the Ministry of Health of the SR by the National Health Information Centre. It is concerned about the data from the domains of: outpatient and inpatient health care, common curative and diagnostic units, network of health care facilities in the SR and health status. The National Health Information Centre also has available other data on the health status of inhabitants from the statistical surveys realised on the basis of legislation of the Ministry of Health of the SR (www.nczisk.sk).

Another data sources on health are the administrative data sources of the Public Health Authority of the SR (www.uvzsr.sk), the State Institute for Control of Drugs (www.sukl.sk), health insurance companies and the Social Insurance Agency (www.socpoist.sk). Basic data on health is available in the Statistical Yearbook of the SR, the Social Trends of the SR and in other publications of the Statistical Office of the SR.

The sample survey - the European Health Interview Survey (EHIS) belongs also to the health statistics. It is realised according to common European methodology and its aim is to obtain internationally comparable data on health status, health care and health determinants of population. The first EHIS in the Slovakia was carried out in the year 2009. More detailed information are available in the part Projects. The EHIS publication with definitive results was released in the first half of the year 2011 and it is available in the part Publications.

Statistics on incapacity to work contains a broad range of information on incapacity to work due to disease and accident under sickness insurance group, by NACE classification, and by regions and districts.

It covers the data on average number of sickness insured persons, the number of newly notified cases of incapacity to work (IW) and calendar IW days due to disease, accidents at work and other accidents, the data on fatal accidents at work, juvenile IW (average number of sickness insured, the number of newly notified cases of accidents at work, the number of calendar days of accidents at work and the number of fatal accidents at work), the number of newly notified occupational diseases, the number of compensated industrial accidents and occupational diseases, the pay-out total sum of benefits, the number of cases of regression benefits, the data on total sum of regression benefits paid to public service, the total costs spent on work injuries and occupation diseases, the number of employees included in enterprise medical care and the number of employees at hazardous workplaces.

The data source was the annual state statistical survey of Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic till the year 2006, from the year 2007 it is the administrative data source of Social Insurance Agency.