1. Demographic Atlas of Croatian Medicine
Sanda Stojanović Stipić MD, PhD, Croatian Medical Chamber

2. December 2017
Key project of Croatian Medical Chamber
Parallel with the informatisation process

3. Croatian Medical Chamber Croatian Bureau of Statistics
Croatian Health-insurance Fund
Croatian Institute of Public Health
Croatian Medical
Chamber
Croatian Pension Insurance Institute
medical
universities
Agency for Science and Higher Education
Croatian
Employment Service

4. Authors:
External expert team (demography, medical economics, mathematics)
Supported by:
CMC expert team (medicine, medical law, public health, medical administration)

5. Regional
principle
Helthcare
type
National
base
Graduated students
Workload
Retired doctors
Speciaties

6. medical doctors on
9648 specialist
2268 resident
2030 doctors without specialization
448 interns
63% females, average age 45
37% male, average age 47 age
3,5 doctors on 1000 inhabitants

7. Every third doctor works on Zagreb
9% doctors work only in the private health system
In the course of the next decade the biggest ever number of medical doctors shall retire
The lack of medical doctors is more evident in the primary health care than in the hospital sector

8. During the course of the last 10 years the number of specialists increase significantly faster than the number of doctors in the primary health care sector
Unequal workload in health regions
The biggest number of working hours was recorded by specialists in the eastern health region

9. More than half of doctors who work night shift have more than 250 hours of overtime per year
Since Croatia entered EU, on every 18 medical doctors who left Croatia only 1 came from abroad and joined the Croatian health system

10. Thank you for your attention!