Health care, accidents

In addition to lifestyle factors, health status is significantly influenced by the preparedness of the health care system. Health statistics provides data on the health status of the population, the presence of lifestyle risks having the strongest impact on the health of the population, the most common diseases and on how much the population does for their health. It monitors changes in the material, personnel and financial conditions that ensure the functioning of the different levels of the care system. Accident statistics takes account of traffic accidents in the country, in particular, it deals with road traffic accidents causing personal injury.

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Settlement and district related data regarding 2021 are presented here

Datasets from the Dissemination Database regarding settlements and Budapest’s districts have been updated with 2021 data, as such settlement and district related data for 2021 are available since 13 December, concerning, among others, data on road traffic accidents.

Statistical Yearbook of Hungary, 2021

The approximately 500 tables, graphs and maps and tens of thousands of data the Statistical Yearbook of Hungary contains give, for almost one and a half century, an overview of the social and economic processes of the country in the given year. Besides paying attention to the ever changing socio-economic environment and user demands we always strive to share new information: the health chapter broadened this year with indices regarding outpatient care, time series of healthcare expenses, life expectancy in good health and the number of Covid19 infected people.

The healthy lifespan has increased since 2010

Hungarian men and women can hope to live 87% and 82% of their lives healthily, without limitations, respectively. The number of healthy years at birth was 61.7 for males and 63.5 for females in 2021. The healthy lifespan has increased by more than 5 years for men and almost 5 years for women since 2010. Males aged over 65 years can expect a limitation-free life for some 7 years, while females in the same age for nearly 8 years.

Road traffic accidents involving personal injury, 2nd quarter 2022

In the 2nd quarter of 2022, when vehicle traffic rose by 11%, there were 8.6% more, a total of 4,057 road traffic accidents involving personal injury, compared to the same period of the previous year. Looking back to the same period of the previous three years, we can see this was the highest number of cases, while it was lower than the figure in the 2nd quarter of 2019. A total of 5,451 persons got injured, and 129 persons of them died. The number of drunk-driving accidents fell by 3.3%.

Outpatient turnover up moderately in 2021

In 2020, the year most affected by the Covid19 outbreak, there was a significant decrease (26%) in both turnover and interventions in outpatient specialty care. In 2021, there was a modest increase as the restrictive measures eased, with turnover increasing by 7.0% and interventions by 6.7%. The epidemic did not cause a significant change in the number of hours worked by specialist physicians in either 2020 or 2021.

Statistical Pocketbook of Hungary, 2021

2021 was the recovery year from the COVID-19 pandemic, the economy restarted, its performance –following the 2020 setback – surpassed the previous year’s by 7.1%. The pocketbook, published every spring, offers through its tables an insight into the 2021 developments of Hungary’s social, economic processes.

Significant decrease in health visitor visits to expectant mothers

The number of expectant mothers registered at the health visitor services increased by 2.2% in 2019 and 2.7% in 2020. At the same time, the number of visits by health visitors to mothers decreased slightly in 2019, but by 40% in 2020, mainly due to the Covid19 epidemic. In view of the exceptional situation, some of the communication between health visitors and mothers was carried out through teleconsultation, without face-to-face meetings, replacing family visits and/or counselling.