Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia (SORS)

Institute of Public Health of Serbia (IPHS)

Institute of Public Health of Serbia - Department for methodological principles and standards of integrated health information system and reporting

Dr Subotica 5, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia

Statistics on healthcare non-expenditure provide information on healthcare human resources, healthcare facilities, and healthcare utilisation.

- The people active in the healthcare sector (doctors, dentists, nurses, etc.) and their status (graduates, practising, migration of doctors and nurses, etc.);

- The available healthcare technical resources and facilities (hospital beds, beds in residential care facilities, medical technology, etc.);

- The health activities or patient contacts undertaken (hospital discharges, surgical procedures, ambulatory care data, etc.).

Annual national and regional data are provided in absolute numbers or as a rate of a relevant population.

Data are based mainly on administrative records (see section 18.1 ‘Source data’ for more information).

For the collection data on healthcare non- expenditure, the classifications used in the System of Health Accounts (SHA) and its related set of International Classification for the Health Accounts (https://www.oecd.org/health/health-systems/1841456.pdf ) are applied.

For hospital discharges, the International Shortlist for Hospital Morbidity Tabulation (ISHMT) is used. (https://circabc.europa.eu/ui/group/c1b49c83-24a7-4ff2-951c-621ac0a89fd8/library/6ff71dd5-8200-4fe4-a610-a7707cd47c4d )

For Health Employment, the Directive 2005/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 September 2005 on the recognition of professional qualifications apply (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2005/36/2020-04-24 ).

Definitions of mandatory variables are laid down in Commission Regulation (EU) 2022/2294.

Where possible, the statistics are separated by sex (male/female), age group and NUTS2 region.

The Eurostat manual on healthcare non-expenditure statistics provides an overview of the classifications, both for mandatory variables and variables provided on voluntary basis.

National deviations: see Annex at the bottom of the page.

Public health.

The healthcare non-expenditure statistics describe the public health sector from a non-monetary perspective. The statistics explain the number or rate of different healthcare resources, facilities and utilisations. A wide range of indicators are collected from a multitude of sources and therefore, details pertaining to individual variables are given in the Annex.

Definitions of mandatory variables are laid down in Commission Regulation (EU) 2022/2294.

The Eurostat manual on healthcare non-expenditure statistics provides an overview of the classifications, both for mandatory variables and variables provided on voluntary basis.

National changes of statistical concepts and national definitions deviating from Regulation (EU) 2022/2294: see Annex at the bottom of the page.

Registered health professionals or health care facility categories.

(1) all health care staff

(2) all available beds or equipment in hospitals or in nursing and residential care facilities

(3) all discharges or procedures performed in all hospitals

Complete national territory

Years 2003-2021

Not applicable

Annual national and regional data are provided in absolute numbers or as a rate of a relevant population.

Data refer to 31st December (i.e. data on health employment) or calendar year (i.e. data on health activities).

Commission Regulation (EU) 2022/2294 on statistics on healthcare facilities, healthcare human resources and healthcare utilisation 

Regulation on Community statistics on public health and health and safety at work (EC) No 1338/2008 

Gentlemen’s agreement

Joint Questionnaire on Non-Monetary Health Care Statistics, which is carried by Eurostat, OECD and WHO-Europe.

Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics (recital 24 and Article 20(4)) of 11 March 2009 (OJ L 87, p. 164), stipulates the need to establish common principles and guidelines ensuring the confidentiality of data used for the production of European statistics and the access to those confidential data with due account for technical developments and the requirements of users in a democratic society.

National level:

Confidentiality of the data is regulated with the official statistics law, rulebook on statistical data protection in the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia and guidelines on measures of data and information protection in SORS.

The handling of data is regulated by the rulebook on the method of using and providing the data produced by the Statistical office of the Republic of Serbia.

The data are published on the SORS and IPHS website and in the SORS and IPHS publications in accordance with the adopted Publishing Policy, and according to the Calendar of Publications.

Calendar of releases is available at SORS website. 

https://www.stat.gov.rs/en-US/calendar

https://www.stat.gov.rs/sr-Latn/calendar

The data obtained from health statistical surveys, are published in accordance with publishing policy on the SORS and IPHS website, in statistical releases, publications and in the database.  

Annual.

News releases on-line.

Health-statistical Yearbook of Republic of Serbia

Statistical Yearbook

The online database is not available.

On request, the access to microdata is ensured to scientific and research institutions.   

Not applicable.

The method of recording and the content of data sets are defined by the methodological instructions created by IPHS.

not available.

The health data are based on a regulation, which defines scope, definitions of variables and characteristics of the data.

There are clear and detailed guidelines for recording and reporting data on healthcare resources, and healthcare utilisation.

not available

The main users of statistical data are: government institutions, NGOs, scientific and research institutions, universities, individual requests, agencies and national organizations, international organizations, press etc.

Not available.

All the requirements laid down in Commission Regulation (EU) 2022/2294 are fulfilled.

All mandatory data have a high accuracy.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

14 months after the end of the reference year.

14 months after the end of the reference year.

Starting from 1998 the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia has not available data for AP Kosovo and Metohija therefore these data are not included in the coverage for the Republic of Serbia (total).

See Annex at the bottom of the page for potential breaks in time series for each variable.

Health care data on resources are also available in the database "Regional Statistics".

All data are consistent.

The cost of the data collection is covered by national budget. Burden of data collection is reduced by using validation and dissemination IT tools.

Revision is possible due to change in data sources and methodology applied. 

There is no systematic revision of previous year data. 

Source data for the different variables are given in the Annex at the bottom of the page.

Annual.

Administrative data from health institutions. The data are collected annually. The data collection is regulated by law.

Consistency checks: comparing the statistics with previous years, investigating inconsistencies in the statistics.

The absolute numbers for aggregates are the sum of the data reported by health institutions.

Data as reported by health institutions. No adjustments are made.

See notes in the Annex at the bottom of the page for:

Health Employment and Education

Health workforce migration

Physical and Technical Resources

Health Activities