Javnozdravstveni pokazatelji u Bjelovarsko-bilogorskoj županiji
Public Health Indicators in the Bjelovar-Bilogora County

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents basic data on Croatian population and vital events, such as the age structure and natural trends in a period of twenty years (1991-2010). The data on birth and mortality rate, natural trends and general fertility rate are shown for the aforementioned period. These data for the Bjelovar-Bilogora County are compared with the ones for Croatia on the whole, with the purpose of highlighting certain health features and indicators. Furthermore, infant mortality in the Bjelovar-Bilogora County was compared with the one in the whole of Croatia in a period of ten years (2001-2010). One of the significant public health indicators of health care is the peri-natal mortality rate. Therefore, the situation in the County was compared with the situation in Croatia in the last ten years. In Croatia, death causes are adequately recorded according to groups of diseases. Therefore, each mortality rate according to gender in the County was compared with the ones in other counties and in Croatia on the whole. Based on the presented data, it is possible to recognise mortality causes for various population groups (age, gender) in the County compared with the same indicators in Croatia. These indicators may be useful for health care services, especially for public health service, as a guideline in the implementation of specific prevention measures directed toward the early detection and treatment of certain pathological statuses for the purpose of decreasing the mortality arising from individual causes.

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