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 (SPKC) 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.
VSD Mortality Registry
Sponsor, manager or home institution: Slimību Profilakses un Kontroles Centrs (SPKC)
Primary purpose: Provide information about mortality incidence and epidemiology.
Available type of information: Cause of death by month, age group, COVID-19 vaccination status; cause of infant and child mortality by age group; potentially lost years of life by region, gender, and sex; as well as other information.
Source of Information: Data collected from death certificates and other populational databases.
Data level: Patient level.
Available data level: Administrative territory, regional and national level.
Number of Records: Unknown.
Date Range: Varies depending on the variable.
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.
Databases for Clinical Trials, Surveys and Biobanks
Electronic Health Records
Clinical Practices Guidelines
Compilation: SPKC Clinical Guidelines
Sponsor, manager or home institution: Slimību Profilakses un Kontroles Centrs
Primary purpose:' Provide guidelines on how to diagnose and treat several medical conditions.
Type of information: Clinical practices guidelines containing information about diagnosis, staging, treatment and follow-up for a number of diseases, including several types of cancer such as cervical, skin, prostate, breast and rectal cancer.
Access to information: Information can be found here.
Latest Policymaking Initiatives
Compilation: SPKC Reports
Sponsor, manager or home institution: Slimību Profilakses un Kontroles Centrs (SPKC)
Primary purpose:' Provide reports on the research conducted by the institute.
Type of information: Reports on smoking habits and analysis on public health data, which includes cancer data.
'Level: National level.
Access to information: Information can be found here.
