1. Health Profile of Denmark Organization Financing of health care Trends in health care Current challenges Statistics

2. Organization State – ministry - policy Five regions – offering health care 98 municipalities – offering preventive health care and rehabilitation

3. Regional health care Primary sector.  GP, practicing specialists, dentists etc. Secondary sector  Hospitals

5. Financing of health care 80% covered by the state run insurance  Exceptions: dental care (50%), medicine, physioteraphy. Spending in 2006: 16 billion USD, apx. 3,000 USD pr capita

7. Current challenges Growth of private sector. Shortage of specialists and nurses Strike

8. Statistics Neonatal mortality rate 4,51 pr. 1000 births (2006 estimate) Fertility rate 1,8 child pr. woman (2004) Life expectancy Entire population: 79.0 Male: 76.0 Female: 81.0 (2006)

9. Statistics HIV-/AIDS-infection 5.000 people or 0,1 % of the entire population (estimate 2003 ) Incidence of tuberculosis 8.0 (per 100 000 inhabitants per year - 2006)‏ Per capita recorded alcohol consumption (liters of pure alcohol) among adults (>=15 years) 11.7 (2003) Number of physicians pr. 1000 inhabitants 3,66 (2000)

10. Statistics Causes of death (per 100 000 inhabitants – 2005)‏ 1. Neoplasms 273 2. CVD 199 3. Apoplexy 149 4. Lung diseases 95 5. Gastrointestinal diseases 51