Reimbursements for depression medicines, recipients aged 18-24, as % of total population of the same age (id: 2355)

Organisation	Statistical years:	Update frequency:
Social Insurance Institution of Finland (Kela)	1994 - 2011	Once a year

Member of

• Morbidity (IP) (id: 132)
• Recipients of reimbursements for antidepressants (id: 396)
• Use of special refunds on medicines (id: 205)

Data source

Social Insurance Institution of Finland (Kela): Statistics on reimbursements for medical expenses

Keywords

• medicines
• depression
• mental health
• entitlement to special refunds

Classifications

Geographical classification

Municipality, sub-region, region, area for the regional state administrative agency, major region, Mainland Finland/Åland, hospital district, university hospital special responsibility area, whole country

Classification by sex

male, female, combined

Age classification

Ages 18-24

Data content

The indicator gives the number of people aged 18-24 receiving reimbursements for antidepressants per thousand persons of the same age during the year.

Interpretation

Restrictions

Individual level data are confidential. For the sake of privacy protection, no municipality level data with less than 4 cases are published.

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