Survey: National Health Interview Survey (INS) (Portugal)

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Type of database: survey.

Primary purpose: Publish statistics on health status, health care and health determinants, and socio-demographic characteristics of the population to enable the study and improvement of these areas.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE).

Type of information: cross-sectional. healthcare costs, costs reimbursement, self-perceived health, self-reported prevalence of chronic diseases, types of visits and number of visits to health care stablishments, type of medical activity, length of stay, medical procedures, periodicity of physician consultation, number of drugs, screening, smoking habit, alcohol consumption, check-up examinations, year, region, sex, marital status, place of residence, level of urbanisation, education, employment status, income, diagnosis, comorbidities.

Data Dictionary - INS Portugal.

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Available type of information: screening and check-up examinations by age, year, sex, level of education and place of residence. Click here to learn more.

Source of information: Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE).

Data level: respondent level.

Available data level: national level and regional level.

Number of records: unknown.

Date range: 2005 onwards. It occurs on a five-year basis.

Cancer areas of interest: C15-C26: Digestive system cancers; C50: Breast cancer and C51-C58: Female genitalia cancer. Click here to learn more.

Data access: partially publicly available. Reports - click here to access.

Mammography attendance tables - 2014 and 2019 by educational level in Portugal: click here to access; 2014 and 2019 by place of residence: click here to access; 2005 and 2006 by place of residence: click here to access.

Cervical cytology attendance tables: 2014 and 2019 by educational level in Portugal: click here to access, 2005 and 2006 by place of residence: 2005 and 2006 by place of residence: click here to access; 2014 and 2019 by place of residence: click here to access.

Colon screening tables: occult blood test in feces by sex, year, and level of education in Portugal: click here to access. Colonoscopy attendance tables: click here to access.

Instructions to request data for restricted content click here to access. Data can be downloaded in the formats PDF, CSV, and XLSX. Data requires a grant proposal to be accessed.

Contact information: Click here to access.

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