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 Medical doctors per 1000 inhabitants (No.)
Characteristic Description
Name Medical doctors per 1000 inhabitants (No.) by Place of residence (NUTS - 2024); Annual
Regularity Annual
Source Statistics Portugal, Health personnel statistics
First available period 2021
Last available period 2023
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Place of residence (NUTS - 2024)
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 01/08/2024

 

 Medical doctors (No.)
Characteristic Description
Name Medical doctors (No.) by Place of residence (NUTS - 2024), Sex and Type of medical doctor; Annual
Regularity Annual
Source Statistics Portugal, Health personnel statistics
First available period 2021
Last available period 2023
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Place of residence (NUTS - 2024)
  • Sex
  • Type of medical doctor
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).
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
Measure unit (symbol) Number (No.)
Power of 10  0
Observations Count
Last update date 01/08/2024

 

 Dentist medical doctors (No.)
Characteristic Description
Name Dentist medical doctors (No.) by Place of residence (NUTS - 2024) and Sex; Annual
Regularity Annual
Source Statistics Portugal, Health personnel statistics
First available period 2021
Last available period 2023
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Place of residence (NUTS - 2024)
  • 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).
Measure unit (symbol) Number (No.)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 01/08/2024

 

 Nurses (No.)
Characteristic Description
Name Nurses (No.) by Work location (NUTS - 2024) and Sex; Annual
Regularity Annual
Source Statistics Portugal, Health personnel statistics
First available period 2021
Last available period 2023
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Work location (NUTS - 2024)
  • Sex
Concepts
  • -:  Health professional health that programs, executes and evaluates general nursing, required by the state of health of the individual, family and community within the pathology, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of illness and type of intervention of the service.
  • 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).
Measure unit (symbol) Number (No.)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 01/08/2024

 

 Pharmacists (No.)
Characteristic Description
Name Pharmacists (No.) by Work location (NUTS - 2024) and Sex; Annual
Regularity Annual
Source Statistics Portugal, Health personnel statistics
First available period 2021
Last available period 2023
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Work location (NUTS - 2024)
  • 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).
  • 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 01/08/2024

 

 Pharmacies and mobile medicine depots (No.)
Characteristic Description
Name Pharmacies and mobile medicine depots (No.) by Geographic localization (NUTS - 2024) and Type of local pharmaceutical unit; Annual
Regularity Annual
Source Statistics Portugal, Pharmacies statistics
First available period 2022
Last available period 2023
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Geographic localization (NUTS - 2024)
  • Type of local pharmaceutical unit
Concepts
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • MEDICINE DEPOT:  A unit targeted at dispensing medications to the general public, of the responsibility of a pharmacist and depending on a pharmacy in the permit of which it is registered. Its establishment and operating conditions are special and duly regulated.
Measure unit (symbol) Number (No.)
Power of 10  0
Observations Count
Last update date 13/09/2024


information presented in 9/10/2024