Poland: Nurse to hospital bed ratio
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| Poland |
Nurse to hospital bed ratio |
|---|---|
| Latest value | 0.53 |
| Year | 2017 |
| Measure | nurse to bed ratio |
| Data availability | 2008 - 2017 |
| Average | 0.54 |
| Min - Max | 0.53 - 0.55 |
| Source | OECD |
The latest value from 2017 is 0.53 nurse to bed ratio, unchanged from 0.53 nurse to bed ratio in 2016. In comparison, the world average is 1.39 nurse to bed ratio, based on data from 31 countries. Historically, the average for Poland from 2008 to 2017 is 0.54 nurse to bed ratio. The minimum value, 0.53 nurse to bed ratio, was reached in 2008 while the maximum of 0.55 nurse to bed ratio was recorded in 2009.
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Definition: The ratio of the number of professional and associate professional nurses to the number of hospital beds.
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|---|---|---|---|
| Hospital beds | 234,617 | 2020 | hospital beds |
| Hospital beds per 1,000 people | 6.19 | 2020 | hospital beds |
| Nurse to hospital bed ratio | 0.53 | 2017 | nurse to bed ratio |
| Doctors per 1,000 people | 3.30 | 2019 | doctors per 1,000 people |
| Nurses per 1,000 people | 5.10 | 2017 | nurses per 1,000 people |
| Midwives per 1,000 people | 0.60 | 2017 | midwives per 1,000 people |
| Midwives per 1,000 live births | 56.57 | 2017 | midwives per 1,000 live births |
| Dentists per 1,000 people | 0.89 | 2019 | dentists per 1,000 people |
| Pharmacists per 1,000 people | 0.75 | 2020 | pharmacists per 1,000 people |
| Physiotherapists per 1,000 people | 0.83 | 2020 | physiotherapists per 1,000 people |
| Computed tomography scanners | 20.08 | 2020 | scanners per million people |
| Magnetic resonance imaging units | 10.48 | 2020 | MRI units per million people |
| Mammographs | 10.26 | 2020 | mammographs per million people |