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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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 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

7. Database
More information: nowbase.org/da/database

10. 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

11. 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)

12. 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?