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12 December 2014

Health and safety at work

Istat disseminates the main results of the ad hoc module “Health and Safety at work”, inserted in the Labour Force Survey during the second quarter […]
Reference period: Year 2013
10 December 2014

Residential care facilities

In Italy, residential care facilities, active at 31st December 2012, were 11,571, with 372,962 beds (6.2 for every 1,000 residents). The majority of the residential […]
Reference period: Year 2012
3 December 2014

Leading causes of death in Italy

In 2012 there were 613,520 deaths in Italy and the age-standardized mortality rate was 92.2 per 10,000 residents. From 2007 through 2012 the age-standardized rate […]
Reference period: Year 2012
10 July 2014

Health conditions and use of health services

Italy has an ageing population and chronic diseases are increasingly spreading. Compared to 2005, chronic respiratory diseases and arthrosis/arthritis decreased in 2013 – the ageing […]
Reference period: Year 2013
9 April 2014

Use and abuse of alcohol

In 2013 the percentage of population aged 11 and over who consumed at least one alcoholic drink during the year was 63.9%. This rate, stable […]
Reference period: Years 2012-2013
15 January 2014

Child mortality in Italy

In 2011, 2,084 under-five year old children died in Italy. In 1887, the number of deaths was 399,505. In this period (1887-2011), the corresponding mortality […]
Reference period: Years 1887-2011
10 December 2013

Residential care facilities

In Italy, residential care facilities, active at 31st December 2011, are 12,033 with 386,803 beds (6.5 for every 1,000 residents). Compared with 2009 no significant […]
Reference period: Year 2011