| name | landlaeknir |
| description | Directorate of Health (landlæknir) — ~30 Power BI dashboards: mortality, medication, healthcare, infectious disease; Talnabrunnur PDFs. |
Landlæknir — Directorate of Health (Embætti landlæknis)
Health statistics for Iceland: mortality, medication use, healthcare services, workforce, infectious disease surveillance, and public health indicators. Primary portal is Mælaborð embættis landlæknis (~30 Power BI dashboards); secondary is Talnabrunnur, a PDF newsletter series (2007–present).
Listed by the Hagtalnanefnd report (March 2026) as one of four other European-statistics producers for Iceland (alongside Seðlabanki, Ríkislögreglustjóri, Samgöngustofa). Produces European health statistics under regulation (EC) No 1338/2008.
Landing pages
| Portal | URL | Format |
|---|
| Mælaborð (dashboard index) | https://island.is/maelabord | HTML index → Power BI embeds |
| Talnabrunnur (newsletter archive) | https://island.is/talnabrunnur | PDF index, 2007–present |
| Tölfræði og rannsóknir (hub) | https://island.is/tolfraedi-og-rannsoknir | HTML |
Note: landlaeknir.is/* URLs now 301-redirect to island.is/*. Use the island.is canonical form.
Mælaborð catalog (~30 dashboards, all Power BI)
All share tenant ID 4d762ac0-6205-42ce-b964-c3b8958fd4a9. Embed URL form:
https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=<base64-encoded {"k":report_key,"t":tenant,"c":8}>
Lýðheilsa (Public Health)
| Name | Report key | Subject |
|---|
| Lýðheilsuvaktin | e96fb72e-64c7-40b9-b413-9880b6d3ebb6 | Monitoring of selected health determinants |
| Lýðheilsuvísar | b844ee2b-a5ac-47e3-8c32-fd4c9260a7b3 | Public health indicators by region |
| Reykingar | 8a8c91a6-8baa-4a92-91f7-c8bbb09a61cf | Smoking habits by gender and age |
Lyfjanotkun (Medication Usage)
| Name | Report key | Subject |
|---|
| Lyfjanotkun | 91dbfdc1-b502-412d-b5b9-ed9195d13cc5 | All drug prescriptions by ATC, gender, age |
| ADHD-lyfja | 5964b5b1-e090-4295-876a-16d7818f5d89 | ADHD medication |
| Þunglyndislyfja | da30ebd3-fdb3-4f61-85b2-c0eaf2475816 | Antidepressants |
| Ópíóíða | 7de4f8d0-1d91-4e36-9ada-d708069663be | Opioids |
| Svefnlyfja og slævandi lyfja | 4c04de98-4ba9-499e-9de2-28e1169ca81f | Sleep & sedatives |
| Sýklalyfja | 8ab229cd-6dc2-41b5-b472-b2e9bd62dcdf | Antibiotics (outpatient) |
Dánarorsakir (Mortality)
| Name | Report key | Subject |
|---|
| Mortis | 9762f31f-75d5-44a0-84f4-2748ada887a5 | Mortality by cause, gender, age |
| Umframdánartíðni | 8434975c-221d-4cf8-be41-b3a018a341c8 | Excess mortality by period |
| Sjálfsvíg | 7099a77d-3bcb-4ecc-b3ad-555816b6d199 | Suicide by gender and age |
| Lyfjatengd andlát | 4b1b3b1f-627a-4b65-9088-35a5be7a0d80 | Drug-related deaths |
Heilbrigðisstarfsfólk (Healthcare Workforce)
| Name | Report key | Subject |
|---|
| Mannafli í heilbrigðisþjónustu | 100a2e7c-8e70-4f4d-8931-3a18f7743b54 | Workforce counts, specialty |
Heilbrigðisþjónusta (Healthcare Services)
| Name | Report key | Subject |
|---|
| Lykilvísar heilbrigðisþjónustu | 3c7aff7a-d011-49c0-999b-42e8572b333d | Key indicators + Nordic comparison |
| Starfsemi sjúkrahúsa | d397920c-ceeb-461e-8e5a-31637e0dfe2e | Hospital admissions, length of stay |
| Samskipti við heilsugæslu | aaa2dbb1-509c-4440-a487-9f9b17f74d04 | Primary care contacts |
| Skimun fyrir krabbameini | 695fcc55-c9cf-48f9-8dea-05114188eacd | Cancer screening participation |
| Bið eftir skurðaðgerðum | de0dd7d1-f6e8-4952-9dad-12f6d011338a | Surgery waitlists |
| Liðskiptaaðgerðir | 66d4f15b-d403-41fb-9f46-11643f02f9ee | Joint replacement procedures |
| Bið eftir hjúkrunarrými | f78159f5-1187-49eb-9b21-c3240b96659c | Nursing-home waitlists |
| Gæði þjónustu á hjúkrunarheimilum | 7280e4c3-e418-45e7-8109-c52c9da328f7 | InterRAI quality indicators |
| Tannheilsa barna | 9b56cbba-0997-47cb-819d-c4ad88c09083 | Children's dental health |
| Alvarleg atvik | 288bcc93-e451-4227-855e-f517c45d8523 | Serious healthcare incidents |
| Kvartanir | 6437ece5-4086-430e-9a6c-25e92c3f0cfd | Patient complaints |
| Rekstur heilbrigðisþjónustu | 2b14022e-6e9a-4f31-a2e2-1ba08b7b9775 | Service operation notifications |
| DRG mælaborð | 7da1376f-51a7-4129-83dd-47e1d68ad45b | Diagnosis-related groups (hospital costs) |
| ACG mælaborð | f95fc235-5913-45a9-bd1a-c052c3f465b1 | Adjusted Clinical Groups (disease burden) |
Sóttvarnir (Infectious Disease Control)
| Name | Report key | Subject |
|---|
| Árlegur fjöldi smitsjúkdóma | cd829644-4051-4a71-9571-e0ed60157d3b | Annual notifiable disease counts |
| Lekandi, klamydía og sárasótt | 53f7eba1-f7bf-42dd-acad-9b4fa068cbd2 | STI diagnoses |
| Öndunarfærasýkingar | f829b4c8-63dd-4cd3-9e37-1b1101e8e02d | COVID-19, influenza, RSV surveillance |
| Veirugreiningar | 656ffb3f-8a7f-4746-b921-4f6e364754ce | Lab viral diagnostics |
| Þátttaka í bólusetningum barna | 608e169f-867c-4b00-9224-925e92b6a247 | Child vaccination uptake |
Embed-URL reconstruction
import base64, json
TENANT = "4d762ac0-6205-42ce-b964-c3b8958fd4a9"
def embed_url(report_key: str) -> str:
payload = {"k": report_key, "t": TENANT, "c": 8}
token = base64.b64encode(json.dumps(payload, separators=(",", ":")).encode()).decode().rstrip("=")
return f"https://app.powerbi.com/view?r={token}"
Extraction method
Same Playwright-intercept pattern as ferdamalastofa, samgongustofa, and maelabord_landbunadarins:
import asyncio
from playwright.async_api import async_playwright
async def scrape_report(url: str) -> list[dict]:
async with async_playwright() as p:
browser = await p.chromium.launch(headless=True)
page = await browser.new_page()
results = []
async def on_response(r):
if "querydata" in r.url.lower() or "executeQueries" in r.url.lower():
if r.status == 200:
try:
results.append(await r.json())
except Exception:
pass
page.on("response", on_response)
await page.goto(url, wait_until="networkidle", timeout=60000)
await asyncio.sleep(10)
await browser.close()
return results
These are public /view?r=... URLs — no auth or embed-token refresh needed.
Talnabrunnur (newsletter archive)
PDF index at https://island.is/talnabrunnur. Each issue is one PDF, 2007–present, usually covering one or two topics in detail. No API. Useful as context for dashboards (methodology, definitions, caveats) rather than as a data source.
Script Usage
uv run python scripts/landlaeknir.py list
uv run python scripts/landlaeknir.py fetch --slug mortis
uv run python scripts/landlaeknir.py fetch --slug syklalyfja
uv run python scripts/landlaeknir.py fetch --all
Data Files
| Path | Format | Description |
|---|
data/raw/landlaeknir/{slug}.json | JSON | Raw Power BI executeQueries responses for one dashboard |
data/processed/landlaeknir_catalog.csv | CSV | Catalog of slugs, names, report keys, categories (from list) |
Caveats
- Power BI structure is volatile. Query response shape can change without notice. Do not hard-code column indices — inspect the
descriptor.Select array per response.
- Suppression on small counts. Dánarorsakir, Sjálfsvíg, Lyfjatengd andlát suppress cells where N is below a privacy threshold (typically ≤4 people). Treat missing cells as "suppressed", not zero.
- Excess mortality uses a rolling baseline. The Umframdánartíðni baseline changes as new years shift in. Snapshot the response JSON, not just the delta, to preserve comparability.
- Nordic-comparison tables lag. Lykilvísar heilbrigðisþjónustu compares against NOMESCO data which updates annually with a ~2-year lag.
- Antibiotic data excludes inpatients. Sýklalyfja covers outpatient prescriptions only. Hospital antibiotic use is in a separate (non-public) dataset.
- Overlaps with Hagstofa for mortality. Hagstofa publishes cause-of-death and life-expectancy series from the same underlying dánarmeinaskrá. Mortis has higher temporal granularity; Hagstofa has cleaner methodology docs.
- URL 301 redirect.
www.landlaeknir.is/* → island.is/*. Use the latter directly.
- Talnabrunnur is PDFs only — no structured data, no API.
- Encoding. Power BI responses are UTF-8 throughout (Icelandic chars þ, ð, æ, ö, í, ó, ú in dimension labels and ATC drug names). Write JSON with
ensure_ascii=False and read with encoding="utf-8".
Complementary sources
| Source | Overlap |
|---|
| hagstofan | Cause of death (HEI02000), life expectancy, health status survey |
| loftgaedi | Air-quality → respiratory health link |
| Eurostat (external) | Regulation 1338/2008 health stats (Landlæknir submits these) |
| OECD Health Statistics (external) | Nordic/OECD benchmarks used on Lykilvísar |
