Hospital Treatments for Musculoskeletal Diseases per 10,000 Inhabitants, 2019

European Union open data provides a 2019 thematic map visualizing hospital treatment cases for diseases of the musculoskeletal system. The data is aggregated at the association level and normalized per 10,000 inhabitants. It was published by the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie and last updated on June 30, 2024.

Use Cases

• Identify geographic disparities in hospital treatment rates for musculoskeletal diseases based on the per-inhabant normalization.
• Analyze the burden of musculoskeletal system diseases on hospital systems using the treatment case data.
• Support public health resource allocation planning based on the association-level geographic data.

Strengths

• Data is normalized per 10,000 inhabitants, enabling fair geographic comparisons.
• Thematic map format provides an immediate visual representation of regional health metrics.
• Last updated date of 2024-06-30 is provided.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is from 2019; freshness should be verified for current analyses.

Provenance

Source

Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie

Time Range

2019

Freshness

Last updated 2024-06-30 00:00:00

Geography

European Union (association level)