NavGeneral InfoEmail Print Original or alternative title Indicadores Básicos: Situación de Salud en Costa Rica 2012 Provider Ministry of Health (Costa Rica)Tabulations only Geography Costa Rica (CRI) Coverage type Country Time period covered 01/1980 - 12/2012 Series or system Costa Rica Basic Indicators of Health Data type Report: Epi surveillanceNational vital registrationSubnationally representative Summary The Basic Indicator: Health Situation in Costa Rica 2012 report provides statistics on population demographics, socioeconomics, morbidity, mortality, health resources, heath care access, and health care coverage to inform analysis and policy making. The sources of information used to create this report include the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses, the Costa Rican Social Security Fund, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Planning, the Ministry of Public Education, the Central Bank of Costa Rica, and other government ministries and organizations. Keywords Abortion, Abortive outcome, Antenatal care, BCG vaccines, Beds, Birth place, Birth weight, Brain and nervous system cancers, Breast cancer, Cancers, Cardiovascular and circulatory diseases, Causes of death, Causes of morbidity, Cervix uteri cancer, Child mortality, Cholera, Chronic respiratory diseases, Colon and rectum cancers, Congenital anomalies, Contraceptives, DTP vaccines, Dengue, Dentists, Diabetes, Edema, Education, Emergency care, Fertility, GDP, HIV and AIDS, Health care expenditures, Health care personnel, Hepatitis vaccines, Homicide, Hospitals, Housing, Hypertension, Incidence, Infant mortality, Infectious diseases, Ischemic heart disease, Kidney and other urinary organ cancers, Length of stay, Leukemia, Life expectancy, Literacy, Liver cancer, MMR vaccines, Malaria, Maternal care, Maternal conditions, Maternal mortality, Measles, Mortality, Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Noncommunicable diseases, Nurses, Ovary cancer, Pancreas cancer, Pneumococcal vaccines, Polio vaccines, Population, Population density, Poverty, Prostate cancer, Road traffic injuries, Roads, Sanitation, School enrollment, Skilled birth attendants, Stomach cancer, Stroke, Suicide, Syphilis, Thyroid cancer, Trachea, bronchus, and lung cancers, Tuberculosis, Water supply, YLLs Citation Contributors Ministry of Health (Costa Rica) Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Publisher Ministry of Health (Costa Rica) Suggested citation Ministry of Health (Costa Rica), Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). Basic Indicators 2012: Health Situation in Costa Rica. San José, Costa Rica: Ministry of Health (Costa Rica). GHDx Entry last modified on: Sep 15, 2021