
Home News Publications Health Statistics Programmes Search Political Leaders in Health

Health Statistics
The objective of this section is to present the best available data on a wide range of health and related indicators. This should provide health planners and managers with easy access to data from a variety of sources.

Number of admissions for alcohol and other drug abuse

Definition	Number of patients admitted for treatment by treatment centres who are part of the SACENDU Project sentinel surveillance system. As at 15 May 2007 these included 28 centres in Cape Town, 6 centres in Durban/Pietermaritzburg, 9 centres in the Eastern Cape, 19 centres in Johannesburg and Pretoria (GP), 4 centres in Mpumalanga and 7 centres in Free State, Northern Cape and North West provinces. Where data for the latter 3 have not been disaggregated these are included in the national total.
Reference	South African Community Epidemiology Network on Drug Use (SACENDU).
Ref. URL	http://www.sahealthinfo.org/admodule/sacendu.htm
Keywords

Number of admissions for alcohol and other drug abuse [Definition]
	EC	FS	GP	KZN	LP	MP	NC	NW	WC	ZA
2006 Jul-Dec	645	-	3 295	921	-	539	-	-	2 798	[1] 8 771
2007 Jul-Dec	608	-	3 053	943	-	-	-	-	3 058	[2] 8 924
EC: Eastern Cape FS: Free State GP: Gauteng KZN: KwaZulu-Natal LP: Limpopo MP: Mpumalanga NC: Northern Cape NW: North West WC: Western Cape ZA: South Africa

SACENDU: South African Community Epidemiology Network on Drug Use (SACENDU). http://www.sahealthinfo.org/admodule/sacendu.htm Regular Updates, Research briefs and reports produced.
Local copy: -
Update 15 May 2007. The total figure includes 572 patients from FS, NW and NC combined.
SACENDU: South African Community Epidemiology Network on Drug Use (SACENDU). http://www.sahealthinfo.org/admodule/sacendu.htm Regular Updates, Research briefs and reports produced.
Local copy: -
Update 27 May 2008. The total figure includes 602 patients from MP and LP (Northern Region) and 657 from FS, NW and NC combined (Central Region).