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

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Type of database: registry.

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. Click here to learn more.

Available type of information: age, year, sex, screening, education level and place of residence, region. 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. For mammography examination information: click here to access; click here to access and click here to access; For cervical cytology information: click here to access, click here to access and click here to access. For colonoscopy information: click here to access. Instructions to request data for restricted content click here to access.

Contact information: Click here to access.