Healthcare resources
Introduction
This section presents data on the human and physical resources used to provide healthcare services in Greece. These include healthcare personnel (e.g. doctors and nurses), healthcare facilities (e.g. hospitals and pharmacies), and medical equipment (e.g. CT and MRI scanners).
Healthcare personnel
Healthcare personnel include doctors, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, midwives, physiotherapists, and caring personnel.
The graphs show trends in the number of healthcare professionals, the geographical distribution of doctors and dentists, and the distribution of doctors by age and sex.
The first graph presents the number of doctors, dentists and nurses.
The next graph presents the number of other members of health personnel.
The next graph presents the number of doctors and dentists across regions.
The next graph presents the number of doctors by age and gender.
Healthcare facilities
Hospitals and hospital beds are key indicators of healthcare system capacity. The graphs show how their numbers have evolved, distinguishing between public and private hospitals, as well as their distribution across regions. The section also presents trends in the number of pharmacies and pharmaceutical wholesalers.
The next graph presents the evolution in the number of hospitals, separately by ownership structure (public or private), and by region.
The next graph presents the evolution in the number of hospital beds, separately by ownership structure of the hospital (public of private), and by region.
The next graph presents the number of pharmacies and wholesale drugstores.
Medical equipment
Specialised medical equipment is used to diagnose and treat diseases. The graph shows trends in the number of different types of equipment, including CT scanners, MRI scanners, mammography units, and radiation therapy equipment.