13 Employed spesialized nurses, physicians and dentists, year 16-66, by industry and speciality. |
1 October 2002 and 2003. Change in per cent |
Persons total |
Employed | Employed, per cent | ||||
Speciality | Total | Change in perc. |
Total | Change in perc. |
Health care service1 | Other services |
Total | 28 589 | -1,1 | 25 235 | -1,2 | 85,8 | 14,2 |
Spesialised nurse2 | 19 176 | -1,0 | 17 608 | -1,1 | 85,3 | 14,7 |
Administration | 1 895 | -1,1 | 1 740 | -0,7 | 80,5 | 19,5 |
Anaesthesia, intensive and surgical care | 1 081 | -0,6 | 1 049 | -0,9 | 96,1 | 3,9 |
Paediatric care | 130 | -0,8 | 129 | 1,6 | 93,8 | 6,2 |
Geriatric care | 1 325 | -1,1 | 1 216 | -3,9 | 87,9 | 12,1 |
Public health nursing | 3 438 | -1,5 | 3 103 | -1,7 | 83,5 | 16,5 |
Midwifery | 2 680 | 0,7 | 2 426 | 2,0 | 91,0 | 9,0 |
Long-term nursing | 225 | - | 213 | - | 86,9 | 13,1 |
Oncological, diacony and palliatic care | 348 | -0,6 | 333 | -1,8 | 95,2 | 4,8 |
Psyciatric nursing | 4 998 | -1,4 | 4 573 | -1,4 | 90,7 | 9,3 |
Other supplementary nursing education | 3 056 | -1,5 | 2 826 | -1,6 | 69,8 | 30,2 |
Spesialised physician | 9 103 | -1,5 | 7 372 | -1,7 | 87,0 | 13,0 |
General practice | 2 048 | 0,1 | 985 | 2,0 | 84,3 | 15,7 |
Anaesthesology | 531 | -1,3 | 497 | -3,7 | 89,7 | 10,3 |
Occupational medicine | 199 | -2,5 | 169 | -2,3 | 53,8 | 46,2 |
Child and adolescent psyciatry | 119 | 1,7 | 111 | 4,7 | 91,0 | 9,0 |
Paediatrics | 385 | -1,8 | 365 | -0,3 | 87,9 | 12,1 |
Physical medicine and rehabilitation | 100 | - | 88 | -8,3 | 79,5 | 20,5 |
Obstetrics and gynaecology | 452 | -2,4 | 415 | -1,0 | 91,3 | 8,7 |
General surgery2 | 234 | -4,5 | 215 | -5,3 | 90,7 | 9,3 |
- Paediatric surgery | 16 | - | 15 | - | 86,7 | 13,3 |
- Gastroenterological surgery | 148 | 0,7 | 146 | - | 93,8 | 6,2 |
- Cardiac surgery | 75 | -5,1 | 72 | -7,7 | 91,7 | 8,3 |
- Thorax surgery | 45 | 7,1 | 42 | 7,7 | 90,5 | 9,5 |
- Urology | 102 | -3,8 | 97 | -4,0 | 93,8 | 6,2 |
Dermatology and venerology | 130 | -2,3 | 112 | -1,8 | 86,6 | 13,4 |
Immunology and transfunsion medicine | 38 | -2,6 | 38 | - | 71,1 | 28,9 |
Internal medicine2 | 336 | -1,2 | 309 | 0,3 | 89,6 | 10,4 |
- Haematology | 42 | -2,3 | 41 | -2,4 | 95,1 | 4,9 |
- Endocrinology | 59 | 1,7 | 56 | 1,8 | 91,1 | 8,9 |
- Gastroenterology | 151 | -2,6 | 145 | -4,0 | 91,7 | 8,3 |
- Geriatrics | 67 | -2,9 | 59 | -7,8 | 88,1 | 11,9 |
- Cardiology | 215 | -4,0 | 206 | -2,8 | 91,3 | 8,7 |
- Communicable diseases | 64 | -7,2 | 62 | -7,5 | 82,3 | 17,7 |
- Pulmonology | 131 | -1,5 | 121 | -2,4 | 95,0 | 5,0 |
- Nephrology | 76 | -5,0 | 72 | -5,3 | 90,3 | 9,7 |
Oral surgery and stomatology | 9 | 12,5 | 9 | 12,5 | 100,0 | - |
Clinical pharmacology | 23 | - | 23 | - | 52,2 | 47,8 |
Clinical neurophysiology | 21 | - | 20 | - | 100,0 | - |
Medical chemistry | 38 | -7,3 | 38 | -7,3 | 76,3 | 23,7 |
Genetics | 23 | - | 22 | -4,3 | 77,3 | 22,7 |
Medical genetics | 73 | -2,7 | 69 | -4,2 | 69,6 | 30,4 |
Neurosurgery | 43 | - | 41 | - | 90,2 | 9,8 |
Neurology | 193 | 2,1 | 182 | 2,8 | 86,8 | 13,2 |
Nuclear medicine | 32 | -11,1 | 30 | -11,8 | 100,0 | - |
Oncology | 105 | 2,9 | 102 | 4,1 | 85,3 | 14,7 |
Orthopaedic surgery | 280 | -2,1 | 270 | - | 95,2 | 4,8 |
Pathology | 137 | -3,5 | 132 | -2,9 | 83,3 | 16,7 |
Plastic surgery | 62 | 3,3 | 56 | - | 87,5 | 12,5 |
Psychiatry | 853 | -2,3 | 755 | -4,6 | 89,4 | 10,6 |
Radiology | 400 | 1,8 | 380 | 1,1 | 96,8 | 3,2 |
Rheumatology | 85 | -5,6 | 82 | -2,4 | 90,2 | 9,8 |
Social medicine | 434 | -3,8 | 282 | -4,1 | 59,6 | 40,4 |
Ear-nose-throat diseas | 241 | -5,1 | 196 | -6,2 | 89,3 | 10,7 |
Opthalmology | 286 | -0,3 | 243 | - | 89,7 | 10,3 |
- Clinical physiology | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 100,0 |
- Clinical social medicine | 1 | -50,0 | 1 | -50,0 | 100,0 | - |
Spesialised dentist4 | 310 | 4,7 | 255 | 3,2 | 80,0 | 20,0 |
Orthodontics | 181 | 5,2 | 152 | 2,7 | 90,8 | 9,2 |
Pedodontics | 27 | - | 23 | -8,0 | 39,1 | 60,9 |
Periodontics | 65 | 1,6 | 51 | 6,3 | 72,5 | 27,5 |
Oral surgery | 37 | 12,1 | 29 | 11,5 | 69,0 | 31,0 |
1Health care services except veterinary services, child care activities, school-age child care and recreation centres for children adolescents, work practice for ordinary employment, social welfare organisations, permanent sheltered employment and foundations/legacies that support social purposis |
2Statistics Norways own register of education is from 2002 |
3General surgery and internal medicine are main specialities where the education groups with indentation are branch specialities |
4Information about spesialists in dentistry are missing in 2002 |
Source: Registerbased employment statistics for health care personnel, Statistics Norway |