Database: KSH Morbidity and Accidents (Hungary)

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Type of database: administrative/claims data.

Primary purpose: To describe the number, frequency, and other characteristics of certain illnesses and accidents.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Központi Statisztikai Hivatal; Quality of Life Statistics Department.

Type of information: longitudinal. age; sex; region; diagnosis; year; cancer incidence; number of patients.

Data Dictionary: KSH Morbidity and Accidents Database.

Available type of information: main diagnosis of adults; year; age; sex; place of residence and main diseases of children. Click here to learn more, under "Health" > "Morbidity and accidents".

Source of Information: Information comes from a combination of direct data collection (such as a report on the activities of family doctors and family pediatricians and the European Health Interview Survey) and administrative data transfer from various national institutions and organizations.

Data level: patient level.

Available data level: national level.

Number of records: unknown.

Data range: 1999 onwards.

Cancer areas of interest: C00-C97: All cancer types. Click here to learn more, under "Health" > "Morbidity and accidents", than choose the dataset, and filter by disease.

Data access: partially publicly available. Click here to access, under "Health" > "Morbidity and accidents". Data can be downloaded in the formats XLS; CSV and PDF. Data has access costs. Instructions to request data for restricted content click here to access.

Contact information: Click here to access.