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Healthcare in the Italian Parliament: how often it was debated

Chamber of Deputies, 1948-2022 · based on 2,454,718 parliamentary interventions

The theme of healthcare appears in 53,617 interventions delivered in the Italian Chamber of Deputies between 1948 and 2022. The year it was discussed most is 1967, with 2,070 interventions.

This page summarises the main figures. The full search, with the complete text of every intervention and downloadable results, is available in the corpus search engine.

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Trend over time

1948: 232 interventions1949: 319 interventions1950: 474 interventions1951: 317 interventions1952: 301 interventions1953: 224 interventions1954: 382 interventions1955: 256 interventions1956: 228 interventions1957: 261 interventions1958: 528 interventions1959: 789 interventions1960: 622 interventions1961: 683 interventions1962: 675 interventions1963: 589 interventions1964: 753 interventions1965: 593 interventions1966: 986 interventions1967: 2070 interventions1968: 772 interventions1969: 988 interventions1970: 897 interventions1971: 820 interventions1972: 456 interventions1973: 744 interventions1974: 590 interventions1975: 456 interventions1976: 604 interventions1977: 722 interventions1978: 1103 interventions1979: 571 interventions1980: 970 interventions1981: 1079 interventions1982: 1419 interventions1983: 1021 interventions1984: 1179 interventions1985: 1331 interventions1986: 1579 interventions1987: 1154 interventions1988: 1761 interventions1989: 1824 interventions1990: 1929 interventions1991: 694 interventions1992: 555 interventions1993: 467 interventions1994: 519 interventions1995: 418 interventions1996: 485 interventions1997: 690 interventions1998: 863 interventions1999: 827 interventions2000: 1216 interventions2001: 794 interventions2002: 697 interventions2003: 545 interventions2004: 678 interventions2005: 482 interventions2006: 438 interventions2007: 545 interventions2008: 378 interventions2009: 335 interventions2010: 357 interventions2011: 374 interventions2012: 553 interventions2013: 373 interventions2014: 606 interventions2015: 488 interventions2016: 535 interventions2017: 344 interventions2018: 286 interventions2019: 642 interventions2020: 955 interventions2021: 762 interventions2022: 465 interventions19501960197019801990200020102020
Interventions per year mentioning healthcare in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, 1948-2022.

Who spoke about it most

Member of ParliamentGroup Interventions
ROSY BINDIL'Ulivo324
FRANCESCO DE LORENZOPartito Liberale Italiano253
GRAZIA LABATEL'Ulivo214
GIULIO CONTIMovimento Sociale Italiano165
AUGUSTO BATTAGLIAL'Ulivo163
MARIAPIA GARAVAGLIADemocrazia Cristiana162
TIZIANA VALPIANAPartito della Rifondazione Comunista147
COSTANTE DEGANDemocrazia Cristiana134
SERGIO SCARPAPartito Comunista Italiano120
BEATRICE LORENZINForza Italia – Il Popolo della Libertà117

The most active parliamentary groups on this issue

Parliamentary groupInterventions
Democrazia Cristiana5,232
Partito Comunista Italiano3,194
L'Ulivo2,496
Partito Socialista Italiano2,098
Partito Democratico1,679
Forza Italia – Il Popolo della Libertà1,661
Movimento Sociale Italiano1,549
Movimento 5 Stelle1,201
Partito Liberale Italiano983
Lega Nord727

How these figures were obtained

The figures come from a full-text search over the entire corpus of verbatim reports of the Italian Chamber of Deputies from 1948 to 2022, queried with sanità OR "servizio sanitario" OR ospedali OR "spesa sanitaria". Each intervention is counted once even if the theme occurs several times within it. The source of the texts is the ItaParlCorpus dataset by Joshua Cova (Harvard Dataverse), which collects 2,454,718 interventions and more than 470 million words. Texts from the earliest legislatures come from OCR scans and may contain recognition errors.

The other themes analysed

Femicide and gender-based violenceImmigrationTerrorismMafia and organised crimeLabour and unemploymentSchools and educationEuropeEnvironment and climatePensionsTaxationCivil rightsEnergyJustice