chart 16
Number of medical graduates per 100,000 inhabitants: Years 2000 – 2015
25 |
2000 2015 Variation: Years 2000-2015 |
400 % |
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15
10
5
0
-21 %
Austria
19 %
Belgium Czech Republic
132 %
72 % 83 % 63 %
Denmark Estonia
Finland France
40 % 1 %
Germany
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-27 %
Greece
45 % 65 %
Hungary Ireland
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7 %
Italy
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112 %
170 %
229 %
64 % 70 % 25 % 25 % 17 %
Latvia Lithuania
Netherlands Poland
Portugal Slovakia
Slovenia Spain
Sweden
70 %
0 %
Switzerland
United Kingdom
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250 % 200 % 150 % 100 % 50 % 0 %-50% |
chart 17
Number of nurses graduated per 100,000 inhabitants: Years 2000 – 2015
120 |
2000 2015 Variation: Years 2000-2015 |
2816 % |
3000 % |
100 |
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2500 % |
80 |
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2000 % |
60 |
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1500 %
1000 %
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40
20
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-6 % 11 % 1 %-11 % 68 %-3 % 71 % 35 % 19 %-1 %-25 % |
278 % 187 % 5 %-58% 53 % 57 %-2% 13 % 9 % 9 % 63 % 10 % |
500 %
0 %
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0
Austria
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Belgium
Czech Republic
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Denmark |
Estonia |
Finland |
France |
Germany |
Greece |
Hungary |
Ireland |
Italy |
Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg
Netherlands
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Poland |
Portugal
Slovak Republic
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Slovenia |
Spain |
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
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-500 % |
( full or part time) were approximately 50 – 60 % of the total, with the highest rates registered in Estonia( 67.5 %), Switzerland( 70.5 %) and France( 77.2 %). By contrast, the lowest values regard Greece( 34.7 %), the Netherlands( 41.5 %) and Finland( 45.8 %).
The most relevant positive variations on the number of physicians per 100,000 working in hospital between 2000 and 2015 were in Switzerland(+ 40 %), Germany(+ 42 %), Denmark(+ 43 %) and Lithuania(+ 53 %). By contrast, there were negative variations in Italy(-3 %), Belgium(-2 %) and Poland(-2 %).
In 2015, the average number of medical and nurses graduates for every 100,000 inhabitants were respectively about 13.6 and 41.4 in the EU; however, the values across countries were quite different. The number of medical graduates per 100,000 inhabitants ranged from 9.0 and 9.3 in
France and Greece to 19.5 and 23.7 in Denmark and Ireland. The number of nurses graduated per 100,000 inhabitants ranged from 12.8 and 15.8 in Luxembourg and the Czech Republic to 92.4 and 93.4 in Denmark and Switzerland.
Compared with 2000, the number of medical graduates per 100,000 inhabitants in EU registered a positive variation in the three Baltic countries( on average, around + 200 %), Portugal(+ 170 %) and Slovenia(+ 229 %). Conversely, according to data, the variation was negative in Austria(-21 %) and Greece(-27 %). The number of nurses graduated per 100,000 in the EU member states belonging to the OECD increased in Latvia(+ 187 %) and Italy(+ 278 %) and registered a remarkable positive variation in Poland(+ 2816 %). The trend was negative in the years considered in Ireland(-25 %) and Luxembourg(-58 %).
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References 1 Despite the last update reported of Health For All Database is February 2018, some of the indicators extracted by such database have been last updated in September 2017( Public-sector expenditure on health as % of total government expenditure, WHO estimates) and January 2018( Private inpatient hospital beds as % of all beds). 2 A System of Health Accounts 2011, Revised edition- pp. 175 & 178. OECD. 3 Ibidem p. 178.