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Health and medical care

Official statistics of Sweden

Surveys by statistics areas

  • Causes of death

    Statistics on causes of death

    Statistical agency: National Board of Health and Welfare

    The statistics show causes of death broken down by age and sex and causes of death during the first year of life by age and sex.

  • Health and disease

    Abortions in Sweden

    Statistical agency: National Board of Health and Welfare

    The statistics present abortions performed, by abortion method, length of pregnancy, previous number of abortions, the woman's age and municipality.

    Assisted reproduction

    Statistical agency: National Board of Health and Welfare

    Discontinued in 2008. The final reporting year was 2005.

    Birth defects

    Statistical agency: National Board of Health and Welfare

    The statistics cover birth defects and chromosome abnormalities in newborn infants, both live births and stillborn, and in foetuses of pregnancies aborted due to birth defects.

    Statistics on Breastfeeding

    Statistical agency: National Board of Health and Welfare

    The report covers statistics about breastfeeding children during the first year of life on six measurement dates

    Statistics on cancer incidence

    Statistical agency: National Board of Health and Welfare

    The statistics include the number of diagnosed tumours and the number of diagnosed tumours per 100 000 inhabitants per year by different types of cancer distributed by age and sex.

    Statistics on dental health

    Statistical agency: National Board of Health and Welfare

    Statistics on dental care and dental health in Sweden. The statistics are used for research, development of quality indicators and evaluation.

    Statistics on hospitalisation due to injuries and poisonings

    Statistical agency: National Board of Health and Welfare

    The statistics describe people hospitalised due to injury, poisoning or as a result of an external cause (circumstance). Distribution is reported by injury diagnosis and external cause.

    Statistics on in-patient diseases

    Statistical agency: National Board of Health and Welfare

    The statistics shows the number of inpatients by disease group, age and sex.

    Statistics on myocardical infarctions

    Statistical agency: National Board of Health and Welfare

    The statistics show the number of people hospitalised for acute myocardial infarction and data on deaths caused by myocardial infarction by age, sex and county.

    Statistics on pregnancies, deliveries and newborn infants

    Statistical agency: National Board of Health and Welfare

    The report covers all pregnancies that led to deliveries in Sweden, with data on the mothers (including age, smoking habits, BMI, medicine, method of delivery, pain treatment, length of pregnancy, diagnoses and measures) and on the newborn infants (including birth, birth weight, length, Apgar score and diagnoses).

    Statistics on smoking habits among parents with infants

    Statistical agency: National Board of Health and Welfare

    The report covers statistics on parents' smoking habits on two occasions - when the child is between zero and four weeks old and when the child is approximately eight months old.

    Statistics on stroke

    Statistical agency: National Board of Health and Welfare

  • Health care and medical services

    Hälso- och sjukvårdens kostnader-EN

    This product has been discontinued from 2008. The last reporting year was 2006.

    Hälso- och sjukvårdens verksamhet-EN

    This product has been discontinued from 2008. The last reporting year was 2006.

    Statistics on licensed health care personnel

    Statistical agency: National Board of Health and Welfare

    The statistics contain the labour market status for all licensed healthcare personnel and specialist certificate holders, and the industry in which they are employed.

    Statistics on licensed health care personnels workforce status

    Statistical agency: National Board of Health and Welfare

    Statistics on pharmaceuticals

    Statistical agency: National Board of Health and Welfare

    The statistics include data about the number of patients and total costs for various substances and groups of medicines.

    Statistics on the health and medical services of municipalities

    Statistical agency: National Board of Health and Welfare

    The statistics show the number of people who have received municipal health and medical care distributed by age and sex.

    Yearbook of health and medical care

    Statistical agency: National Board of Health and Welfare

    The publication contains mainly data retrieved from existing publications. The National Board of Health and Welfare published the yearbook in 1995-2002. Since 2004, four separate publications have been published instead. They contain, to varying degrees, the tables that were previously included in the yearbook.