Health Statistics Successor to Public Health Information System (PHIS)

Health Statistics is a collection of aggregated tables of health-related data produced by the Department of Health focused primarily on morbidity and mortality.

Purpose: Health statistics related to acute and maternity public hospital activity and mortality based on anonymised data sources are in scope. Private hospital activity is out of scope. Ancillary data on resourcing, financing, staff and facilities, and identifiable health data are out of scope. Primary care data is also out of scope.

Coverage: National – 1980 - 2020.

Data and Resources

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Additional Info

Field Value
Contact points
Contact point 1
URI
Name
Department of Health
Email
data@department-of-health.ie
Identifier
Publisher
Publisher 1
URI
Name
Department of Health
Email
URL
Type
http://purl.org/adms/publishertype/NationalAuthority
Identifier
Creator
Homepage
Landing page
Release date January 1, 2020
Modification date July 9, 2025
Version
Version notes
Identifier NDC-0040
Frequency http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/frequency/ANNUAL
Provenance

Data is provided annually to our Statistics and Analytics Unit.
Type
Temporal coverage
Temporal coverage 1
Start
January 1, 2020
End
December 10, 2026
Temporal resolution
Spatial coverage
Spatial coverage 1
URI
http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/country/IRL
Label
Ireland
Geometry
Bounding Box
Centroid
Spatial resolution in meters
Access rights http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/access-right/PUBLIC
Other identifier
Theme
  1. http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/data-theme/HEAL
Language
  1. http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/ENG
Documentation
Conforms to
Is referenced by
Analytics
Applicable legislation
Has version
Code values
Coding system
Purpose
Health category
  1. http://health.europa.eu/ehds/category/public-health
  2. http://health.europa.eu/ehds/category/registries
Health theme
  1. http://health.europa.eu/theme/chronic-disease
Legal basis
Minimum typical age 15
Maximum typical age 75
Number of records 197615
Number of records for unique individuals. 62843
Personal data
Publisher note
Publisher type
Trusted Data Holder
Population coverage
Retention period
Health data access body
Qualified relation
Provenance Activity
URI
Qualified Attribution
Quality annotations