A statutory population-based surveillance system mandated to collect and analyse information about the health of mothers and babies was established in the state of Victoria in 1982, becoming the VPDC in 2008 and now covering 73 755 births per year.
The volume and quality of publicly financed care (the statutory benefits package, population coverage, and non-price rationing such as waiting times).
In brief, VCs and 95% CIs were calculated as proportion of patients having received claimed influenza vaccinations among the total statutory health insured population by region, age-group, and season.
In Spain the public health system pays 90% of the price of antidepressant drugs officially prescribed to the population with statutory health insurance.
However, TB is still present in Italy; each year >4,000 new cases are reported to the statutory reporting system (7.4 cases/100,000 population in 2008), and 46% of cases occur in foreign-born persons (2 ).
Approximately 90% of the German population has statutory health insurance while the remaining 10% (mainly self employed, civil servants and high income groups) are covered by private health insurance.
Second, there is only a limited comparability between the total population of statutory insured patients of the ambulatory healthcare centre and the populations of AOK-patients of the healthcare centre and the surrounding county, because of large differences between the patients of the different German statutory health insurances, e.g. in age distribution, income, education, and profession.
Population-based statutory cancer registries are a reliable source for identifying incident cancers in populations [ 3- 5].
The study showed that cancer ascertainment from the population-based statutory cancer register produced more refined and reliable incidence estimates.
This study aimed to assess the validity of hospital data for identifying incident pregnancy-associated cancers compared with incident cancers from an Australian population-based statutory cancer registry.
Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the validity of hospital diagnoses for identification of incident pregnancy-associated cancers, both overall and by cancer type, compared with incident diagnoses from a population-based statutory cancer registry.
