Database: KSH Morbidity and Accidents (Hungary)

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

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

Type of information: Data Dictionary: KSH Morbidity and Accidents Database. More metadata information [1].

Available type of information: Main diseases of adults; Year; Diseases; Period of time; Age-group; Sex; Geographic area and Main diseases of children [2].

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.

Date Range: Unknown.

Available data range: 1999 onwards.

Cancer Areas of Interest: Malignant neoplasms (C00-C97).

Data access: Partially publicly available [3], under "Health" > "Morbidity and Accidents". Instructions to request data for restricted content [4].

Contact information: Information [5].