Liberal Health Professionals: number by type of exercise and territory (department, region)
Description
This dataset is one of the sources of data visualisations available on the [Liberal Health Professionals] website(https://data.ameli.fr/pages/data-professionnels-sante-liberaux/).
### General information:
The liberal health professions available in this dataset are:
* the **doctors** (with more than twenty medical specialties);
* dental surgeons** (including dentofacial orthopaedic specialists – ODF);
* the **women**;
* medical assistants with five professions: **nurses, massage therapists, speech therapists, orthoptists, pedicures-podologists**.
They are health professionals active on 31 December of the year concerned and:
* exercising their activity as a liberal;
* in metropolitan France, Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Reunion, Martinique and Mayotte;
* having received at least EUR 1 in fees;
* whether they are contracted with the Sickness Insurance or not (when they generate a prescription reimbursed by the Sickness Insurance);
* professionals in employment-retirement cumulation are counted in the workforce as long as they meet the previous conditions.
This dataset presents information on the type of exercise of liberal health professionals:
* exclusive liberal exercise;
* mixed liberal exercise.
Several territorial levels are available: national level (whole France), region, department.
The data are derived from the National Health Data System (NSDS). For more information (source, field, definitions of modalities), visit the [Method](https://data.ameli.fr/pages/data-professionnels-sante-liberaux-methode/) page of this site.
### Data update:
The data proposed for download in the “Export” tab is updated every year (data from the whole of France since 2010).
Resources
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8 |
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https://www.data.gouv.fr/api/1/datasets/r/34869c69-188e-48ca-8242-70161aebab47 |
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23 |
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https://www.data.gouv.fr/api/1/datasets/r/4ee74fcc-dbff-454a-a84c-35be390e28b6 |
Tags
- professionnels-de-sante-liberaux