Health
Contents
- Health and medical care
- Health care expenditure
- Primary health care and specialised health care
- Consumption of alcoholic beverages
- Percentage of daily or occasional users of tobacco products among 20 to 64-year-olds
- Causes of death
Health and medical care
| 2000 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Physicians | 15 905 | l 20 306 | 21 980 | . . | . . | . . |
| Persons per physician | 325 | l 264 | 249 | . . | . . | . . |
| Dentists | 4 794 | 4 699 | 5 000 | . . | . . | . . |
| Hospitals | 389 | 271 | 253 | *253 | . . | . . |
| Pharmacies | 595 | 618 | 615 | 614 | 618 | 621 |
| Prescriptions, thousand | 37 934 | 50 364 | 55 791 | 61 250 | 63 300 | 64 668 |
| Prescriptions per inhabitant | 7,3 | 9,4 | 10,2 | 11,1 | 11,4 | 11,7 |
l line across a time series shows substantial breaks in the homogeneity of a series
* preliminary data
Source: Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare THL
Updated: 15.1.2021
Health care expenditure 1)
Source: Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare THL
Updated: 2.10.2020
Primary health care and specialised health care
| 2000 | 2010 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 1) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thousand | ||||||
| Health centres | ||||||
| Outpatient visits 2) | 25 131 | 27 191 | I 24 670 | 25 087 | 25 127 | I 22 772 |
| General practitioner visits | 10 350 | 7 129 | I 6 684 | 6 634 | 6 442 | I 5 889 |
| Others | 14 780 | 18 796 | I 17 986 | 18 453 | 18 685 | I 16 883 |
| Specialised health care | ||||||
| Outpatient visits 3) | 5 693 | 7 858 | 9 770 | 10 036 | 10 469 | . . |
| Day-surgery inpatient stays | 128 | 176 | 177 | 177 | 183 | . . |
| Inpatient stays | 960 | 816 | 779 | 782 | 770 | . . |
1) Data on primary outpatient health care for 2019 were not derived exhaustively from all health care centres
2) Excl. dental care
3) Incl. visits to public specialised health care
l line across a time series shows substantial breaks in the homogeneity of a series
Source: Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare THL
Updated: 15.1.2021
Consumption of alcoholic beverages, 100% alcohol
Source: Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare THL
Updated: 7.4.2020
Percentage of daily or occasional users of tobacco products 1) among 20 to 64-year-olds
1) Use of tobacco products includes cigarette smoking, snuff use or both concurrently.
Source: Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare THL
Updated: 1.4.2020
Causes of death, 2019
| Cause of death | Deaths | % | Males | % | Females | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diseases of the circulatory system | 18 267 | 34 | 9 255 | 34 | 9 012 | 34 |
| Neoplasms | 13 267 | 25 | 7 097 | 26 | 6 170 | 23 |
| Dementia, Alzheimer's disease | 10 153 | 19 | 3 401 | 13 | 6 752 | 25 |
| Accidents excl. alcohol poisonings | 2 245 | 4 | 1 412 | 5 | 833 | 3 |
| Diseases of the respiratory system | 1 969 | 4 | 1 205 | 4 | 764 | 3 |
| Alcohol related diseases and accidental poisoning by alcohol | 1 718 | 3 | 1 306 | 5 | 412 | 2 |
| Diseases of the digestive system | 1 271 | 2 | 585 | 2 | 686 | 3 |
| Suicides | 746 | 1 | 567 | 2 | 179 | 1 |
| Other causes of death | 4 326 | 8 | 2 260 | 8 | 2 066 | 8 |
| Deaths total | 53 962 | 100 | 27 088 | 100 | 26 874 | 100 |
Source: Statistics Finland, Causes of death
Updated: 14.1.2021
Main topic: Health
Last updated 10 Mar 2021