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 Medical doctors per 1000 inhabitants (No.)
Characteristic Description
Name Medical doctors per 1000 inhabitants (No.) by Place of residence (NUTS - 2002); Annual
Regularity Annual
Source Statistics Portugal, Health personnel statistics
First available period 2002
Last available period 2013
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Place of residence (NUTS - 2002)
Concepts
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
  • RESIDENT POPULATION:  The persons who regardless of the fact that at the moment of observation ' 0:00 a.m. of the reference day ' are present or absent in a given housing unit, this unit being where they live during most of the year with their family, or where they have all or most of their belongings.
Definition MEDICAL DOCTOR (MD in USA or Canadian terminology) A person holding at least a basic medical degree and that is or was a medical practitioner, whether a physician or a surgeon, in any labour condition. Practicing of medicine depends on the right granted by the Portuguese college of physicians and surgeons (Ordem dos Médicos). Source: Estatuto da Ordem dos Médicos, art.º 1º e 8º
Formule (Total number of medical doctors registered in the end of the year/ Resident population estimated for the end of the year)*1000
Measure unit (symbol) Number (No.)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 03/07/2014


information presented in 5/11/2025