Database: OECD Health Statistics (European Union)
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Type of Database: registry
Primary purpose: Provides health data and metadata for OECD countries and selected non-member economies.
Sponsor, manager or home institution: The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
Type of information: longitudinal. Data Dictionary: OECD Health Statistics. Click here to learn more.
Source of Information: International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and World Health Organisation Mortality Database.
Data level: national level.
Number of Records: unknown.
Date range: 1960-2021.
Cancer Areas of Interest: C00-C97: All cancer types. Full list of cancer types: OECD Health Statistics. Click here to learn more.
Data access: publicly available. [ds=dsDisseminateFinalDMZ&df[id]=DSD_HEALTH_STAT%40DF_C&df[ag]=OECD.ELS.HD&df[vs]=1.0 Click here to access]. Data can be downloaded in the formats XLS and CVS.
(To access Cancer Morbidity data, click the link, then click in the section "Cancer" from the "Health Status" list);
(To access Cancer Mortality data, click the link, then click in the section "Causes of mortality" from the "Health Status" list -> in the table, select the type of neoplasm in the section "variable").
Contact information: Click here to access.
