The work of Nomesco and Nososco Mika Gissler Research professor THL National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland

NOWBASE www.nowbase.org NOWBASE is the shared website for the Nordic Medico-Statistical Committee (NOMESCO) and the Nordic Social Statistical Committee (NOSOSCO). Two permanent committees under the Nordic Council of Ministers Tasks: working to ensure that health and social statistics in the Nordic Countries is comparable between countries gathering statistics within this field and and presenting these statistics and making them widely available Contact: Nomesco & Nososco secretariat E: mail@nom-nos.dk

Health statistics in the Nordic Countries Organization of the Health Services Population and Fertility Morbidity, Medical Treatment, Accidents and Medicinal Products Mortality and Causes of Death Resources

Social statistics in the Nordic Countries Changes in Nordic social policies in 2014 and 2015 Population and income distribution Families and children Unemployment Sickness and health Old Age, Disability and Survivors Housing benefits Other social benefits Social expenditure

Ongoing projects Social Inequalities in Causes of Death Microsimulation Models in the Nordic Countries Welfare Indicators Patient Mobility in the Nordic Countries Health of the Elderly More information: nowbase.org/da/current-projects

Old projects More information: nowbase.org/da/publications Sickness Absence in the Nordic Countries Challenges to the Nordic Welfare State - Comparable Indicators Financing of Health Care in the Nordic Countries Youth Unemployment in the Nordic Countries Report on Mortality Statistics for the Nordic / Baltic Countries Do the Nordic Welfare Systems Encourage 60-74-Year-Olds to Work? Old-age Pension Systems in the Nordic Countries Sustainable Social and Health Development in the Nordic Countries More information: nowbase.org/da/publications

Database More information: nowbase.org/da/database

Large Excel sheets Discharges, patients treated and bed-days in hospitals 130 categories by 5-year age group and sex Short list for morbidity for hospital discharge statistics ISHMT Surgery 30 categories by 5-year age group and sex Short list for surgical procedures HDP2 New cases of Cancer 10 categories by 5-year age group and sex Causes of Death 73 categories by 5-year age group and sex

Good source for research The system descriptions cannot be found elsewhere. All Nordic countries are participating, also Faroe Islands, Greenland and Åland Islands. Long-term collaboration from 1946 (social statistics) and 1966 (health statistics). Most comparable data and more accurate data than in the other international statistical data sources, e.g. Eurostat, OECD and WHO. Interesting (but underfunded) ad hoc projects. Soon: New database Publication as soon as the data are ready (not once a year)

Possibilities for the future Abandon the aggregated data collection and introduce data collection and dissemination based on individual case records. Hospitalisations, surgical procedures, cancers, deaths, even medication (prescription registers) Open questions: How to solve the data protection issues? How to support the researchers when using the data? Funding?