Indicator full name: Practising dentists, head count
Unit: number of professionals
Dimensions:
- Country/Area (COUNTRY/AREA)
- Supranational group of countries (COUNTRY_GRP)
- Year of measure (YEAR)
Years data is available: 1980—2021
Last updated: 22 November 2023
- Albania
- Andorra
- Greece
- Ireland
- Monaco
- Montenegro
- North Macedonia
- Portugal
- San Marino
- Spain
- Türkiye
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Professionals receiving training in recommendations on newborn, infant and young child nutrition
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Been bullied once or twice
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Peer support
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Drinking wine
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SDR, major noncommunicable diseases, 30-69 years, males
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SDR(25-64), Ulcer of stomach and duodenum, per 100 000
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Mid-year population, age 25-29 years
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SDR(75+), Malignant neoplasm of bladder, per 100 000
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Differences in bullying others, by FAS
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SDR(30-44), Accidents, per 100 000
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SDR(25-64), Alzheimer's disease and other degenerative diseases of nervous system, per 100 000
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SDR, motor vehicle traffic accidents, all ages, per 100 000, females
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SDR(25-64), Pulmonary heart disease and other heart diseases, per 100 000
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Literacy rate (%) in female population aged 15+ years
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SDR, homicide and intentional injury, 65+, per 100 000, males
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Development and implementation of the recommendations on weight gain during pregnancy
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Practising dentists, head count (Line chart)
HlthRes-DB provides a wide range of statistics on human and technical resources for health and offers data on non-monetary health care resources collected through the joint work of the Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and WHO/Europe
Human resources indicators: Indicators include the number and density of a wide range of health personnel (such as physicians, nurses, midwives, dentists, pharmacists and health care assistants), according to three different concepts (those practising, professionally active and licensed to practice). Information on employment in hospitals and numbers of medical and other graduates is also available. It is currently available in English and Russian.
Technical resources data: Data include the number and density of hospitals and hospital beds, stratified by ownership of facility (public, non-profit-making private and for-profit private), in addition to the number of beds for long-term care.
Information before 2011 is not verified.
The 2022 Revision of UN World Population Prospects was used for estimates.
Practising dentists, total number Indicator code: pract.dent Practising dentists provide services directly to patients. They include stomatologists/dental surgeons. Inclusion - Persons who have completed studies in dentistry / stomatology at university level (granted by an adequate diploma) and who are licensed to practice - Interns (with an adequate diploma and providing services under supervision of other dentists or dental specialists during their postgraduate internship in a health care facility) - Salaried and self-employed dentists delivering services irrespectively of the place of service provision - Foreign dentists licensed to practice and actively practising in the country Exclusion - Students who have not yet graduated - Dentists working in administration, research and in other posts that exclude direct contact with the patients - Unemployed dentists and retired dentists - Dentists working abroad Note: The number should be at the end of the calendar year.