Latvia
Cancer Centers
Healthcare System
In Latvia, the Nacionālais veselības dienests (NVD) is the provider of universal healthcare with the exception of dental care and most rehabilitation and physiotherapy. The system is financed through general taxation, and is managed by the Ministry of Health, who also manages the national health policy and the overall organization and functioning of the health system. The NVD is primarily responsible for implementing state health policies, purchasing publicly funded health services and ensuring healthcare service availability.
The NVD and Slimību profilakses un kontroles centrs are the main organizations responsible for national health information systems and databases such as electronic health records, claims data, cause of death, and cancer registries.
Administrative or Claims Data
Registries
VSD Cancer Registry
Sponsor, manager or home institution: Slimību Profilakses un Kontroles Centrs (SPKC)
Primary purpose: Provide information about cancer incidence and epidemiology.
Available type of information: Number of registered cancer by region, administrative territory, gender, age group, location and stage at time of diagnosis, among other metrics. More information about the variables can be found here.
Source of Information: Data collected from hospital data sources, population registries, cause of death databases, and registers for other diseases that contain oncological data.
Data level: Patient level.
Available data level: Administrative territory, regional and national level.
Number of Records: Unknown.
Date Range: 2010 to 2019.
Cancer Areas of Interest: C00-C97.
Open data access: Data is partially publicly available. Data can be found here. Information on how to access the full database can be found here.
Information/Contact for data request: Contact information can be found here.
