Health in Ireland — Key Trends
Department of Health, Statistics & Analytics Unit.
2008
To provide summary statistics on health and healthcare. It also aims to highlight selected trends and topics of growing concern and to include new data where it becomes available. All aspects of the public health system in Ireland are in scope. Activity and employment in private hospitals is out of scope.
National.
Each edition of Key Trends contains data from the previous five years.
Health in Ireland - Key Trends provides summary statistics on health and healthcare. Most data tables provide data for the previous 10 years. It also aims to highlight selected trends and topics of growing concern and to include new data where it becomes available. The booklet is divided into six chapters ranging from population, life expectancy and health status through to healthcare delivery, staffing and costs.
Persons and Institutions engaged in researching health in Ireland
Population and life expectancy; health of the population; hospital care; primary care and community services; health service employment; health service expenditure.
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Data in Key Trends are high-level aggregations. Where possible, indicators are broken down by Age, Sex and Region.
Compiled from various sources - either manually retrieved from online public databases or published reports, or by requesting the information from the relevant organisation. Key Trends is published annually.
Not applicable.
Key Trends contains c.100 tables/graphs
Annually.
From the Dept of Health website:
https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/350b7-health-in-ireland-key-trends-2021/
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