National Institute of Public Health

National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ) is the major national institution for investigation and protection of health as well as for increasing the level of health of population of Slovenia. Its professional area covers all public health fields from laboratory activities to health promotion and mental hygiene.

An important field of activities is collection of data and management of health statistical databases. Mortality data and data on causes of death are one of the most important public health statistics, used as a rough measure of the health of population and its different groups. They are collected in the database NIJZ 46: Medical death certificate.

Registration of causes of death is a well developed and standardised system of collection of public health data that are available for most European countries. As data are gathered and analysed according to uniform methodology, they are comparable for all countries.