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 Pharmacists (No.)
Characteristic Description
Name Pharmacists (No.) by Work location (NUTS - 2001) and Sex; Annual
Regularity Annual
Source Statistics Portugal, Health personnel statistics
First available period 2002
Last available period 2012
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Work location (NUTS - 2001)
  • Sex
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).
  • SEX:  Biological and physiological characteristics that define men and women.
  • PHARMACY:  Health facility, licensed by a permit granted by the National Pharmacy and Medicines Institute (Portuguese acronym: INFARMED), only awarded to pharmacists on the basis of tendering procedures. The carrying on of its activity is duly regulated, and it is the task of pharmacists or of pharmacy technicians under their supervision, to compound, control, store and dispense medications to the general public. Under duly regulated conditions, it may have two new medicine depots.
Measure unit (symbol) Number (No.)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 10/03/2014


information presented in 14/5/2025