Table 1 Indicators of socioeconomic inequalities in health and health care, frequency of monitoring and data sources

1. Mortality (by gender and age groups): all causes, cardiovascular diseases, malignant neoplasms, external causes, respiratory diseases, other causes

Place of residence: urban – rural

Annually

Mortality register

Administrative regions

Every 3 yrs

Education

Every 10 yrs, based on census data

Marital status

2. Life expectancy

Place of residence: urban – rural

Annually

Administrative regions

Every 3 yrs

3. Avoidable mortality

Place of residence: urban – rural

Every 5 yrs

Administrative regions

4. Low birth weight newborns and stillbirths

Mothers' education

Every 3 yrs

Newborn register

Mothers marital status

5. Health behavior of adult population (by gender and age groups): Self-assessed health; outpatient visits per year; stress during the last month; depression; oral health; smoking; alcohol use; nutrition; physical activity; traffic safety

Education

Every 4 yrs

Health behavior Monitoring among the adult Population

Place of residence: urban/rural

Every 2 yrs

Income

Every 2 yrs

6. Health behavior of schoolchildren (by gender): Self-assessed health; outpatient visits per year; stress during the last month; depression; oral health; smoking; alcohol use; drug use; nutrition; physical activity; traffic safety

Family well-being index

Every 2 – 4 yrs

Health behavior monitoring in schoolchildren

Parents' profession

Place of residency

7. Health care accessibility

Profession

Every 3 yrs

Surveys on representative samples of the population

Education