Health in Ireland — Key Trends

Data Collection Type
Additional collated sources of health information-national
Organisation

Department of Health, Statistics & Analytics Unit.

Year established

2008

Statement of purpose

To provide summary statistics on health and healthcare. It also aims to highlight selected trends and topics of growing concern and to include new data where it becomes available. All aspects of the public health system in Ireland are in scope. Activity and employment in private hospitals is out of scope.

Coverage (geographical and temporal)

National.

Each edition of Key Trends contains data from the previous five years.

Description/Summary

Health in Ireland - Key Trends provides summary statistics on health and healthcare. Most data tables provide data for the previous 10 years. It also aims to highlight selected trends and topics of growing concern and to include new data where it becomes available. The booklet is divided into six chapters ranging from population, life expectancy and health status through to healthcare delivery, staffing and costs.

Data users

Persons and Institutions engaged in researching health in Ireland

Data content

Population and life expectancy; health of the population; hospital care; primary care and community services; health service employment; health service expenditure.

Data dictionary

No.

Equity stratifiers

Data in Key Trends are high-level aggregations. Where possible, indicators are broken down by Age, Sex and Region.

Data collection methodology

Compiled from various sources - either manually retrieved from online public databases or published reports, or by requesting the information from the relevant organisation. Key Trends is published annually.

Clinical coding scheme

Not applicable.

Size of national collection

Key Trends contains c.100 tables/graphs

Publication frequency

Annually.

Accessing data

From the Dept of Health website:
https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/350b7-health-in-ireland-key-trends-2021/

Open data portal access

No.

Telephone contact