Portugal
Cancer Centers
Healthcare System
Portugal provides universal healthcare to all its residents, including the unemployed and illegal immigrants. There are also health insurance schemes that provide coverage for specific sectors, both public and private. Citizens can also opt for private health insurance schemes. The system providing healthcare in Portugal is called Serviço Nacional de Saúde (SNS), managed by the Ministry of Health, and is mainly funded through general taxation, but a third of its funding comes from the private sector such as out-of-pocket payments via co-funding or direct payment by the patient.
Administrative or Claims Data
Registries
Database: Mortality by cause of death
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Primary purpose:
Sponsor, manager or home institution: Mortality by causes of death from the Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE).
Type of information: Number of deaths filtered by data reference period, place of residence (NUTS - 2013), sex, age group, and death cause (malignant neoplasms).
Source of information: Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE).
Data level:
Number of Records:
Date range: 2002 onwards.
Cancer Areas of Interest:
Data access:
Information/contact for data request: [ Contact information].
