The Directorate of Health's Health Registers

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The Directorate of Health organizes and maintains registers on health, diseases, accidents, prescriptions, birth, and the work and performance of the health service. According to the Medical Director of Health and Public Health Act, one of the main functions of the Directorate of Health is to collect, process, preserve, and disseminate information in an organized manner, thus providing a basis to monitor the service, to ensure its quality and in scientific research. The Chief Epidemiologist is responsible for keeping a Register of Communicable Diseases, according to the Act on Health Security and Communicable Diseases, but the information in the register is, among other things, necessary to support disease prevention and control and in epidemiological research.

Purpose of the health registers

• Acquire knowledge of health and health services,

• To monitor the health service and ensure its quality,

• Evaluate the performance of the health service,

• Use the registers in quality development in the health service, scientific research, and surveys of health and its determinants.