Greek Public Primary Health Care Facility Utilization Patterns, 2024

Administrative data from 649 public primary health care units in Greece for 2024. The data includes visit compositions categorized as regular, emergency, prescription, and other types, analyzed to identify functional typologies. The dataset was created by Stefanos Karakolias and published under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Classifying health facilities into functional typologies based on service utilization patterns.
• Analyzing associations between facility characteristics like size, organizational type, and geography with service profiles.
• Informing targeted resource allocation and workforce planning for heterogeneous primary care systems.

Strengths

• Data covers 649 public primary health care units, providing a substantial sample size.
• Analysis identifies three distinct functional typologies with specific cluster sizes (308, 66, and 275 units).
• Dataset includes specific visit type categories (regular, emergency, prescription, other) for compositional analysis.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is from a single year (2024), limiting longitudinal analysis.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Cross-sectional analysis of administrative data using compositional data analysis and k-means clustering.

Time Range

2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 05:28:46; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Greece