In this publication NOMESCO presents the latest available data from the health statistics of the Nordic countries.

The book covers the following: Organization of health services; Population and fertility; Morbidity, medical treatment, accidents and medicine; Mortality and causes of death; Resources within the health services, including expenditure, health personnel, capacity and services at hospitals.

In this publication NOMESCO presents the latest available data from the health statistics of the Nordic countries.

The book covers the following: Organization of health services; Population and fertility; Morbidity, medical treatment, accidents and medicine; Mortality and causes of death; Resources within the health services, including expenditure, health personnel, capacity and services at hospitals.

In this publication NOMESCO presents the latest available data from the health statistics of the Nordic countries.

The book covers the following: Organization of health services; Population and fertility; Morbidity, medical treatment, accidents and medicine; Mortality and causes of death; Resources within the health services, including expenditure, health personnel, capacity and services at hospitals.

In this publication NOMESCO presents the latest available data from the health statistics of the Nordic countries.

The book covers the following: Organization of health services; Population and fertility; Morbidity, medical treatment, accidents and medicine; Mortality and causes of death; Resources within the health services, including expenditure, health personnel, capacity and services at hospitals.

In this publication NOMESCO presents the latest available data from the health statistics of the Nordic countries.

The book covers the following: Organization of health services; Population and fertility; Morbidity, medical treatment, accidents and medicine; Mortality and causes of death; Resources within the health services, including expenditure, health personnel, capacity and services at hospitals.

In this publication NOMESCO presents the latest available data from the health statistics of the Nordic countries.

The book covers the following: Organization of health services; Population and fertility; Morbidity, medical treatment, accidents and medicine; Mortality and causes of death; Resources within the health services, including expenditure, health personnel, capacity and services at hospitals.

In this publication NOMESCO presents the latest available data from the health statistics of the Nordic countries.

The book covers the following: Organization of health services; Population and fertility; Morbidity, medical treatment, accidents and medicine; Mortality and causes of death; Resources within the health services, including expenditure, health personnel, capacity and services at hospitals.

In this publication NOMESCO presents the latest available data from the health statistics of the Nordic countries.

The book covers the following: Organization of health services; Population and fertility; Morbidity, medical treatment, accidents and medicine; Mortality and causes of death; Resources within the health services, including expenditure, health personnel, capacity and services at hospitals.

In this publication NOMESCO presents the latest available data from the health statistics of the Nordic countries.

The book covers the following: Organization of health services; Population and fertility; Morbidity, medical treatment, accidents and medicine; Mortality and causes of death; Resources within the health services, including expenditure, health personnel, capacity and services at hospitals.

In this publication NOMESCO presents the latest available data from the health statistics of the Nordic countries.

The book covers the following: Organization of health services; Population and fertility; Morbidity, medical treatment, accidents and medicine; Mortality and causes of death; Resources within the health services, including expenditure, health personnel, capacity and services at hospitals.

In this publication NOMESCO presents the latest available data from the health statistics of the Nordic countries.

The book covers the following: Organization of health services; Population and fertility; Morbidity, medical treatment, accidents and medicine; Mortality and causes of death; Resources within the health services, including expenditure, health personnel, capacity and services at hospitals.

In this publication NOMESCO presents the latest available data from the health statistics of the Nordic countries.

The book covers the following: Organization of health services; Population and fertility; Morbidity, medical treatment, accidents and medicine; Mortality and causes of death; Resources within the health services, including expenditure, health personnel, capacity and services at hospitals.

In this publication NOMESCO presents the latest available data from the health statistics of the Nordic countries.

The book covers the following: Organization of health services; Population and fertility; Morbidity, medical treatment, accidents and medicine; Mortality and causes of death; Resources within the health services, including expenditure, health personnel, capacity and services at hospitals.

In this publication NOMESCO presents the latest available data from the health statistics of the Nordic countries.

The book covers the following: Organization of health services; Population and fertility; Morbidity, medical treatment, accidents and medicine; Mortality and causes of death; Resources within the health services, including expenditure, health personnel, capacity and services at hospitals.

In this publication NOMESCO presents the latest available data from the health statistics of the Nordic countries.

The book covers the following: Organization of health services; Population and fertility; Morbidity, medical treatment, accidents and medicine; Mortality and causes of death; Resources within the health services, including expenditure, health personnel, capacity and services at hospitals.

NOMESKO offentliggør i denne publikation de senest tilgængelige sundhedsstatistiske oplysninger for de nordiske lande.

Bogen omhandler: Organiseringen af sundhedsvæsenet; Befolkning og fertilitet; Sygelighed, sygdomsbehandling, ulykker og medicin; Dødelighed og dødsårsager; Ressourcer inden for sundhedsvæsenet, herunder sundhedsøkonomi, sundhedspersonale, kapacitet og ydelser ved sygehuse.

In this annual report NOSOSCO publishes social statistics for the Nordic Countries, with a comparison of the rules governing social benefits and the expenditure on these.

Chapter 1 highlights the most significant changes in social and financial policy since the last edition. Chapter 2 provides demographics and income distribution. Cash benefits and services for families and children are treated in Chapter 3, whereas Chapters 4 and 5 describe benefits in the event of unemployment and illness, respectively. Chapter 6 concerns benefits for the elderly, disabled and survivors, whereas housing benefits for families and pensioners are described in Chapter 7. Social benefits not covered by the previous chapters are featured in Chapter 8. Chapter 9 provides a survey of the scope and financing of the total social expenditure.

NOSOSKO offentliggør i denne årlige publikation socialstatistik for de nordiske lande, med sammenligning af udgifter og regler for og udgifter til kontantydelser og service.

I Kapitel 1 belyses de vigtigste ændringer i den økonomiske politik og socialpolitikken siden sidste udgave. I Kapitel 2 redegøres for demografi og indkomstfordeling. Kontantydelser og service til familier og børn behandles i Kapitel 3, mens kapitlerne 4 og 5 belyser ydelser ved henholdsvis arbejdsløshed og sygdom. Kapitel 6 omhandler ydelser til ældre, funktionshæmmede og efterlevende, mens boligydelser er beskrevet i Kapitel 7. Kapitel 8 behandler sociale ydelser, som ikke dækkes i de foregående kapitler. Kapitel 9 giver en oversigt over de samlede sociale udgifters omfang og finansiering.

NOMESCO decided in 2008 to produce a new report on the production of mortality statistics in the region. The task was assigned to a subgroup of the BNG, Lars Age Johansson (Sweden, chair), Helena Korpi (Finland) and Anne Gro Pedersen (Norway).

The major part of the present report is based on replies to a questionnaire. A first draft of the questionnaire was designed by the report team and then reviewed by the entire BNG members in early 2009. Anne Gro Pedersen summarized the replies- Lars Age Johansson compiled a draft report that was circulated to the BNG in April 2010, and also edited the final version. Experiences from the annual meetings with the BNG have also been included in the report, where relevant. 

The Nordic countries are seen as a prototype of a welfare state in which the public sector has a responsibility for social protection and health care services. The Nordic welfare states are distinguished by their emphasis on universal social policies instead of targeted, selective and means-tested policies. The Nordic countries have been successful in reducing poverty and fostering equality of opportunity as well as equality of outcomes, both with regard to socioeconomic status, income and gender. By providing many citizens with welfare resources through welfare state institutions, universal social policies are also likely to affect public health .The target to increase health equity and to reduce health inequalities is stated in all national health policies. With the decreasing mortality, however, increasing social inequality in mortality has been reported. Therefore, after a proposal from Denmark, NOMESCO decided in 2012 to start a project on health inequalities. The aim of this project was subsequently focused in exploring the potential differences in preventable mortality due to smoking- and alcohol-related deaths in the Nordic countries.

On 27 May 2003, NOMESCO and NOSOSCO arranged a seminar on Sustainable Social and Health Development in Stockholm. The seminar was a follow-up of a project in 2002 where NOMESCO & NOSOSCO drew up a set of proposals for Nordic Indicators concerning Sustainable Social and Health Development. In 2003, these proposals were followed up by a production of statistics on the proposed indicators.

Both the proposals and the statistics were presented at the seminar, supplemented by some more specific topics that all had relevance to a sustainable social and health development. In this report, the main background papers from the seminar are presented.

These include:

• Christer Eriksson, Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, Sweden; Nordic indicators seen in relation to the international collaboration.
• Torben Fridberg, SFI Denmark; General and Social indicators.
• Niels Kr. Rasmussen, SIF, Denmark; Health Indicators.
• Johannes Nielsen, NOMESCO and NOSOSCO, Denmark; Health services indicators.
• Helge Brunborg; Ssb, Norway; The ageing population, trends and problems in the Nordic countries.
• Marja-Liisa Parjanne & Pekka Siren, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health Scenarios for the long-term financial sustainability of the Finnish social protection system.
• Ilija Batljan, Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, Sweden; Macroeconomis scenarios of future and costs of health and social care for the elderly in sweden, 2000-30.
• Gunilla Ringbäck Weitoft, National Board of Health and Welfare, Sweden; Mortality, severe morbidity, injury and educational attainment among children in single parent families.
• Torben Fridberg, SFI, Denmark; Indicators on low income.
• Henrik Brønnum-Hansen, SIF, Denmark; Health expectancy and the hypotheses of compression, expansion and dynamic equilibrium.
• Seppo Koskinen, National Public Health Institute, Finland; Well-being in relation to health.

On April 6 2006, NOMESCO & NOSOSCO held a seminar as part of the project ‘sustainable development’.

The seminar was a follow-up on a number of alternative population projections up until 2055 that have been made by the Secretariat.

In order to obtain qualitative bids for the most vital issues when it comes to sustainable social – and health which are fertility, life expectancy and participation in working life, experts had been asked to submit their bid for these vital issues.

The main message from the seminar was that we live longer, but not long enough; that the chances of higher fertility in the Nordic countries than at present are slim, but that a number of active measures may be taken so that more people will contribute to working life and thus reduce the dependency load.

These include:

• Johannes Nielsen, MOMESCO & NOSOSCO, Denmark; Summary.
• Eystein Haram, Ministry of Labour and Social Inclusion, Norway; Opening of the Seminar.
• Jesper Thøgersen, NOMESCO & NOSOSCO, Denmark; Alternative Population Projections.
• Knud Juel, SIF, Denmark; Factors related to life expectancy.
• Jesper Thøgersen, NOMESCO & NOSOSCO, Denmark; The Significance of Fertility to the Number of 0-6-Year-Olds.
• Mika Gissler, Elina Hemminki & Mikko Kautto, STAKES, Finland; Trends in the Fertility in the Nordic Countries.
• Bengt Eklind, Tom Nilstierna & Christer Löfgren, Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, Sweden; Swedish family policy.
• Jesper Thøgersen, NOMESCO & NOSOSCO, Labour Force and Dependency Load.
• Nabanitta Datta Gupta, SFI, Denmark; The Determinants of Non-Employment among Working-Age Individuals in Denmark.
• Einar Øverbye, Oslo University College, Norway, Activation policy in the Nordic Countries.
• Mika Gissler, Stakes, Finland; Conclusion.

In this publication NOMESCO presents the latest available data from the health statistics of the Nordic countries.

The book covers the following: Organization of health services; Population and fertility; Morbidity, medical treatment, accidents and medicine; Mortality and causes of death; Resources within the health services, including expenditure, health personnel, capacity and services at hospitals.

In this publication NOMESCO presents the latest available data from the health statistics of the Nordic countries.

The book is divided into three sections: Section A deals with: Organization of health services; Population and fertility; Consumption patterns; Medical treatment, morbidity and accidents; Mortality and causes of death; Resources within the health services, including expenditure, health personnel, capacity and services at hospitals, as well as consumption of pharmaceutical products. Section B is a feature section on occurrence and survival of low birthweight births in the Nordic countries 1980-1994. Section C contains appendices.

In this publication NOMESCO presents the latest available data from the health statistics of the Nordic countries.

The book is divided into three sections: Section A deals with: Organization of health services; Population and fertility; Consumption patterns; Medical treatment, morbidity and accidents; Mortality and causes of death; Resources within the health services, including expenditure, health personnel, capacity and services at hospitals, as well as consumption of pharmaceutical products. Section B is a feature section on patients, diagnoses and activities in general practice in the Nordic countries. Section C contains appendices. 

In this publication NOMESCO presents the latest available data from the health statistics of the Nordic countries.

The book is divided into three sections: Section A deals with: Organization of health services; Population and fertility; Consumption patterns; Medical treatment, morbidity and accidents; Mortality and causes of death; Resources within the health services, including expenditure, health personnel, capacity and services at hospitals, as well as consumption of pharmaceutical products. Section B is a feature section concerning registration practice of the causes of death in the Nordic countries. Section C contains appendices. 

In this publication NOMESCO presents the latest available data from the health statistics of the Nordic Countries. 

The book is divided into three sections: Section A deals with: Organization of health services; Population and fertility; Medical treatment, morbidity, medicine and accidents; Mortality and causes of death; Resources within the health services, including expenditure, health personnel, capacity and services. Section B is a feature section concerning validity and comparability of Nordic hospital discharge statistics. Section C contains appendices.

NOMESKO offentliggør i denne publikation de senest tilgængelige sundhedsstatistiske oplysninger for de nordiske lande.

Bogen omhandler: Organiseringen af sundhedsvæsenet; Befolkning og fertilitet; Sygelighed, sygdomsbehandling, ulykker og medicin; Dødelighed og dødsårsager; Ressourcer inden for sundhedsvæsenet, herunder sundhedsøkonomi, sundhedspersonale, kapacitet og ydelser ved sygehuse.

NOMESKO offentliggør i denne publikation de senest tilgængelige sundhedsstatistiske oplysninger for de nordiske lande.

Bogen omhandler: Organiseringen af sundhedsvæsenet; Befolkning og fertilitet; Sygelighed, sygdomsbehandling, ulykker og medicin; Dødelighed og dødsårsager; Ressourcer inden for sundhedsvæsenet, herunder sundhedsøkonomi, sundhedspersonale, kapacitet og ydelser ved sygehuse.

In 2004, NOMESCO received funding from the Nordic Council of Ministers for a special publication concerning medicines consumption and expenditure. The report is a follow-up to the theme section of Health Statistics in the Nordic Countries 1999. NOMESCO 61:2001.

Chapter 1 highlights the general trends and regulatory changes during 1999-2003. Chapter 2 provides an account of the structure of the report. Chapter 3 and 4 describe the development of medicines expenditure and the development of medicines consumption, respectively. 

In 2008, the NOMESCO Annual Planning Meeting decided that NOMESCO should publish an updated version of Medicine Consumption in the Nordic Countries in 1999 -2003 with data for 2004-2008.

Chapter 1 highlights the general trends and regulatory changes during 2004-2008. Chapter 2 provides an account of the structure of the report. Chapter 3 and 4 describe medicines expenditure development and medicines consumption development, respectively. 

Since 1994, there has been a collaboration between the Nordic Medico-Statistical Committee (NOMESCO) and the Baltic countries.

The collaboration has led to mutual understanding of how the health systems are organized in the Nordic and Baltic countries respectively, just as our discussions have also shown the differences in the organization of tasks, including how one traditionally registers and processes data.

The report covers the following: Organization; Vital Statistics; Diseases; Mortality; Resources.

Since 1994, there has been a collaboration between the Nordic Medico-Statistical Committee (NOMESCO) and the Baltic countries.

The collaboration has led to mutual understanding of how the health systems are organized in the Nordic and Baltic countries respectively, just as our discussions have also shown the differences in the organization of tasks, including how one traditionally registers and processes data.

The report covers the following: Organization; Vital Statistics; Diseases; Mortality; Resources.

Since 1994, there has been a collaboration between the Nordic Medico-Statistical Committee (NOMESCO) and the Baltic countries.

The collaboration has led to mutual understanding of how the health systems are organized in the Nordic and Baltic countries respectively, just as our discussions have also shown the differences in the organization of tasks, including how one traditionally registers and processes data.

The report covers the following: Organization; Vital Statistics; Diseases; Mortality; Resources.

Since 1994, there has been collaboration between the Nordic Medico-Statistical Committee (NOMESCO) and the Baltic countries.

The collaboration has led to mutual understanding of how the health systems are organized in the Nordic and Baltic countries, just as our discussions have also shown the differences in the organization of tasks, including how data are traditionally registered and processed.

The report covers the following: Organization; Vital Statistics; Health and Health Care; Mortality; Resources.

Nordic/Baltic Health Statistics was published in 1998, 2001 and 2004. This is thus the fourth issue with updates and some new information in time series.

Recently the official statistics describing drug related deaths in Sweden werescrutinised. One of the most important findings was that statistical trend data ofdrug related deaths in Sweden was not comparable over time. The main reasonsbehind this being changes in coding practices and in methods used in forensicchemistry. As a result the national Swedish index was revised. It is within thatcontext the revision of the NOMESCO-index should be seen.In the process of investigating the topic at hand other related issues has emerged,such as the definition of the present index and the implementation of the same.

The Nordic region has one of the world’s oldest populations and over the past decades, the health and care of elderly people have attracted more and more attention, as the proportion of elderly people in the population is increasing. This trend is expected to continue in the coming decades.

The aim of this report is to provide a general statistical description of the care and treatment of elderly people in the Nordic region from the age of 65, with a focus on the 80+ age group. Another aim is to develop and improve NOMESCO’s annual statistics, and revisions to the statistics are proposed where necessary. Some of the OECD indicators are used to highlight and compare certain aspects of health care that are particularly important for elderly people.

The report is based on available Nordic statistics collected continually by NOMESCO and other international organisations, and on statistics collected especially for this project from the national patient, cancer, prescribed drugs, and cause of death registers. The statistics show, for example, the occurrence of disease, pharmaceutical prescriptions and mortality in different age groups over 65, distinguishing between women and men, in the Nordic countries. Most of the data is from 2015. Information from national interview surveys is an important complement to the registry data, enabling health trends in the population to be monitored over time. Over several decades, the Nordic countries have developed their own surveys of living conditions, which are adapted to national circumstances. This means there are certain differences between the countries in survey methods and degree of coverage.

This book gives an overview of the NCSP codes. Moreover it gives information on the NCSP update routine, which can be found in the section on Structure and classification guidelines.

This book gives an overview of the NCSP codes. Moreover it gives information on the NCSP update routine, which can be found in the section on Structure and classification guidelines.

This book gives an overview of the NCSP codes. Moreover it gives information on the NCSP update routine, which can be found in the section on Structure and classification guidelines.

Chapter 1 gives a short presentation of the health care systems in the Nordic countrieswith a focus on organization, responsibility and legislation. In Chapter 2, theinternational system of health accounts is described, and Chapter 3 provides a descriptionof the expenditure development of the health care sector in 2000-2010. Inthe main chapter of the report, Chapter 4, the financing of the health care sector inthe Nordic countries is described on the basis of the health accounts principles. InChapter 5, the Nordic reforms as to freedom of choice are presented. Chapter 6deals with diagnosis-related groups (secondary patient classification). The report iscompleted by a chapter on factors that may influence future financing of health carewith a view to the fact that the need for health care is expected to increase overtime.The purpose of this theme is to provide an overview of the financing of health care.The thematic reports also aim at developing and improving Nomesco's annual statistics.

In 1996, collaboration began between NOMESCO and the Working Group on Health of the Barents Euro-Arctic Region. A health Statistics Working Group was established with a view to develop some health statistics indicators for the Barents Region.

A draft of the tables was discussed for the first time at a meeting on February 17-18 1997 in Rovaniemi, and the results from the data collection were discussed at a meeting on November 25 1997 in Rovaniemi, where a number of corrections for the collected data were agreed. This publication presents the results from the data collection.

The report covers the following: Organization; Population and Vital Statistics; Diseases; Treatment; Mortality; Capacity.

The Nordic welfare states face several challenges in the years to come. In this report, we have emphasized some of these challenges, and we will try to develop comparable indicators which may contribute to illustrating them.

In Chapter 1, we look at different welfare models, and in Chapter 2, we look at which challenges can be identified. In the following chapters, we demonstrate indicators and analyse the various challenges. Chapter 3 touches on the expenditure of the welfare state, while demographic changes are discussed in Chapter 4. Chapter 5 deals with education, and in Chapter 6 we take a look at income distribution and social exclusion. Different aspects of the labour market are described in Chapter 7. Here we look at different forms of weak connections with the labour market, as well as work activities among seniors. In Chapter 8, we describe health, and finally Chapter 9 concerns housing where we take a look at standard, economy and housing environment.

The Nordic welfare states face several challenges in the years to come. In this report, we have brought out some of these challenges, and we try to develop comparable indicators which may contribute to illustrating them. The indicators cover the years 2006-2010.

In Chapter 1, we look at different welfare models and what challenges we can identify, as well as the expenditure of the welfare state. In Chapter 2, we look at challenges that come from demographic changes, while Chapter 3 shows indicators on income distribution and social exclusion. Different aspects of the labour market are described in Chapter 4. Here we look at different forms of weak connections with the labour market, such as part-time employment, as well as work activities among seniors. Chapter 5 deals with different challenges related to the health of the population.

This report describes the initiatives which may influence the labour supply among the 60-74-year olds. The report describes the typical retirement pathways, their application and how different categories of persons are compensated in the event of full or partial retirement.

Intiatives to stimulate individuals to work in the Nordic countries differ and depend on the basic structure of the system. But the result of the organization of the systems is that the replacement rate increases the longer time a person postpones retirement. On the other hand there are differences as far as the replacement rates across oncome groups are concerned.

In this publication NOMESCO presents the latest available data from the health statistics of the Nordic countries.

The book covers the following: Organization of health services; Population and fertility; Morbidity, medical treatment, accidents and medicine; Mortality and causes of death; Resources within the health services, including expenditure, health personnel, capacity and services at hospitals.

A practical tool in injury epidemiology. 

This report is the third in a series of reports financed by the Nordic Social Statistical Committee (NOSOSCO), discussing future challenges to the Nordic Welfare states. Building on the assumption that there are some key common traits shared by the Nordic welfare states justifying the use of the label “Nordic welfare model”. The purpose of the report is to use comparable indicators to analyse some key challenges faced by the welfare states. Identifying and describing comparative indicators for common challenges may be suitable both for analysing the challenges and for policy making in the Nordic countries. At their best, indicators are measures that condenseinformation on relevant issues and facilitate policy making. More emphasis on the challenge coming from increased immigrationto the Nordic countries in the recent years, since this has reached the forefront ofpublic and political debate in all of the Nordic countries.

The Nordic Social-Statistical Committee (NOSOSCO) is a permanent Committee under the Nordic Council of Ministers and the Nordic Committee on Social Policy. It was set up to coordinate the Nordic countries’ social statistics and to analyze and comparatively describe the scope and contents of social welfare measures. In 1994, collaboration was established between NOSOSCO and the Baltic countries.

The report covers the following: Organization of the Social Protection; Method; Population; Families and Children; Unemployment; Illness; Old Age, Disability and Survivors; Housing Benefits; Other Social Benefits; Social Expenditure