Gender: Health - Methodology
Data on the state of health of the population and on activities of the health service providers are received from the National Health Information System (hereinafter only referred to as the NHIS). The NHIS is defined in the Act on Health Services and Conditions of Their Provision. The NHIS is determined for keeping national health registers and processing of data kept therein. The administration of the NHIS has been delegated by the Ministry of Health to the Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic (IHIS CR). Data for the Number of health care personnel are collected by means of statistical reports (questionnaires) from the Programme of Statistical Surveys from health service providers. The Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the CR (IHIS CR) also administers the data.
The Czech Statistical Office (CZSO) in cooperation with the Czech Social Security Administration (CSSA) ensures data on new reported cases of incapacity for work due to disease or injury.
Information on health care expenditure (according to the System of Health Accounts) is derived from data of the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, the National Register of Reimbursed Health Services (Národní registr hrazených zdravotních služeb – NRHZS), which is part of the NHIS, and data sources of the CZSO.
Besides the aforementioned sources, this Chapter uses structural employee wage statistics, namely in case of data on the average gross monthly wage of medical doctors and nurses and midwives.
Data on students of and graduates from health fields of education at universities in Czechia were obtained from data sources of the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports, namely from the system of the Union Information from Students’ Registers (the SIMS database).
Data on international comparisons come from the database of Eurostat. In some cases, data on international comparisons may slightly differ, due to methodological reasons, from data presented in tables solely for the Czech Republic.
Age-specific mortality rates: the number of deaths (deceased persons, females or males) at a given age per 1 000 mid-year population of the same age.
Index of male excess mortality shows the male mortality rate to the female mortality rate ratio at a given age.
Life expectancy at a given age: the average number of years to be still lived by a person who is now at a given age while mortality conditions for individual ages in a given calendar year are maintained. It is a resulting indicator of so-called life tables.
The number of deaths by cause of death is based on processing of data on causes of death or on diseases, conditions, or prospective other medical or other characteristics related to a death, stated on the “Death certificate (Report on examination of the deceased person)”, before 2012 by means of filling the statistical Report on death. An underlying cause of death is a basis for statistical classification; the underlying cause of death is defined by the World Health Organization as (a) the disease or injury that initiated the train of events leading directly to death or (b) the circumstances of the accident or violence which produced the fatal injury. Causes of death have been coded (since 1994) according to the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems in the wording of the 10th decennial revision (ICD-10) and its subsequent, in the Czech Republic adopted, updates. In 2020, COVID-19 disease was newly included in the classification of diseases; the U07 code from the chapter of Codes for special purposes was assigned to it. Since 2021, a multisystem inflammatory syndrome associated with COVID-19 (U10 code) also can be the underlying cause of death.
Further information, data, and analyses of the CZSO can be found on the websites mentioned below:
Publications devoted to health: https://www.czso.cz/csu/czso/public-health
Statistical Yearbook of the Czech Republic: Statistical Yearbook of the Czech Republic - 2022 | CZSO
Regional yearbooks: https://www.czso.cz/csu/czso/regional-yearbooks
