Public health in Scania 2008
type: Dataset
description: A sample was drawn from the population registry among persons aged 18-18 years and living in Region Scania in 30th June 2004. The sample was stratified after geographic areas where each municipality stated a selection group, except Helsingborg which was divided into five city parts, Kristianstad divided in six municipality parts, Lund in ten municipality parts and Malmo in ten city parts. Selections of about the same size were made in each subarea. In total 27,963 persons answered the questionnaire, corresponding to 59 percent of the total sample (n= 47,621). The department of Social medicin, University Hospital MAS, Region Scania was operative responsible for the investigation. Statistics Sweden (SCB) has been contracted to perform mailing, collecting of the questionnaires and summaries. The study was approved by the regional research ethics committee and SCB:s etichal board. Purpose: The aim of the FHS 2008 was to get a current picture of the health, health care contacts and living conditions among the inbabitants of Scania which are also important for the future of public health in Scania, and also to make a follow-up study of the previous surveys FHS 2000 and FHS 2004 in Scania.
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creative work status: completed
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creator: Mathias Grahn
  type: Person
  affiliation: Region Scania
    type: Organization
    department: Samhällsanalys
  family name: Grahn
  given name: Mathias
creator: Juan Merlo
  type: Person
  affiliation: Region Scania
    type: Organization
    department: Samhällsanalys
  family name: Merlo
  given name: Juan
creator: Anna Friberg
  type: Person
  affiliation: Region Skåne
    type: Organization
    department: Centrum för folkhälsa och miljö
  family name: Friberg
  given name: Anna
creator: Maria Rosvall
  type: Person
  affiliation: Region Scania
    type: Organization
    department: Samhällsanalys
  family name: Rosvall
  given name: Maria
date modified: 2025-07-01
date published: 2013-09-06
keywords: HEALTH
keywords: Medical and Health Sciences
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  term code: 3
keywords: Health Sciences
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  term code: 303
keywords: Public Health, Global Health and Social Medicine
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  term code: 30311
keywords: Epidemiology
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  term code: 30116
keywords: Epidemiologic Studies
keywords: Cohort Studies
keywords: Dental Care
keywords: Population Surveillance
keywords: Socioeconomic Factors
keywords: Risk Factors
keywords: Overweight
keywords: Diet
keywords: Respiratory Function Tests
keywords: Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: Body Weight
keywords: Drug Utilization
keywords: EpiHealth
keywords: Scania
keywords: EpiHealth_Skåne
publisher: Region Skåne
size: QuantitativeValue
  unit text: cases
  value: 28198
size: QuantitativeValue
  unit text: variables
  value: 273
temporal coverage: 2008-09/2008-10
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HEALTH
type: DefinedTerm
term code: Health

JOB SATISFACTION
type: DefinedTerm

UNEMPLOYMENT
type: DefinedTerm

DRINKING BEHAVIOUR
type: DefinedTerm
description: DRINKING HABITS, PATTERNS OF ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION AND BEHAVIOUR ASSOCIATED WITH ALCOHOL INTAKE

SOCIAL CLASS
type: DefinedTerm

ALCOHOLISM
type: DefinedTerm

DISEASES
type: DefinedTerm

DENTAL HEALTH
type: DefinedTerm

SMOKING
type: DefinedTerm
description: INHALING AND EXHALING THE SMOKE OF BURNING TOBACCO

PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES
type: DefinedTerm

SLEEP
type: DefinedTerm

WORKLOADS
type: DefinedTerm

SICK LEAVE
type: DefinedTerm

EDUCATION
type: DefinedTerm

OBESITY
type: DefinedTerm

PUBLIC HEALTH
type: DefinedTerm
description: CONCERNED WITH THE PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF DISEASE AND DISABILITY, AND THE PROMOTION OF THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF THE POPULATION

MENTAL HEALTH
type: DefinedTerm

MEDICAL HISTORY
type: DefinedTerm
description: RECORD OF AN INDIVIDUAL'S ILLNESSES, MEDICAL TREATMENTS, ETC.

PASSIVE SMOKING
type: DefinedTerm
description: CONTAMINATION OF THE AIR BY TOBACCO SMOKE

Epidemiologic Studies
type: DefinedTerm
description: Studies designed to examine associations, commonly, hypothesized causal relations. They are usually concerned with identifying or measuring the effects of risk factors or exposures. The common types of analytic study are CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; and CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES.
term code: D016021

Cohort Studies
type: DefinedTerm
description: Studies in which subsets of a defined population are identified. These groups may or may not be exposed to factors hypothesized to influence the probability of the occurrence of a particular disease or other outcome. Cohorts are defined populations which, as a whole, are followed in an attempt to determine distinguishing subgroup characteristics.
term code: D015331

Dental Care
type: DefinedTerm
description: The total of dental diagnostic, preventive, and restorative services provided to meet the needs of a patient (from Illustrated Dictionary of Dentistry, 1982).
term code: D003729

Population Surveillance
type: DefinedTerm
description: Ongoing scrutiny of a population (general population, study population, target population, etc.), generally using methods distinguished by their practicability, uniformity, and frequently their rapidity, rather than by complete accuracy.
term code: D011159

Socioeconomic Factors
type: DefinedTerm
description: Social and economic factors that characterize the individual or group within the social structure.
term code: D012959

Risk Factors
type: DefinedTerm
description: An aspect of personal behavior or lifestyle, environmental exposure, inborn or inherited characteristic, which, based on epidemiological evidence, is known to be associated with a health-related condition considered important to prevent.
term code: D012307

Overweight
type: DefinedTerm
description: A status with BODY WEIGHT that is above certain standards. In the scale of BODY MASS INDEX, overweight is defined as having a BMI of 25.0-29.9 kg/m2. Overweight may or may not be due to increases in body fat (ADIPOSE TISSUE), hence overweight does not equal "over fat".
term code: D050177

Diet
type: DefinedTerm
description: Regular course of eating and drinking adopted by a person or animal.
term code: D004032

Respiratory Function Tests
type: DefinedTerm
description: Measurement of the various processes involved in the act of respiration: inspiration, expiration, oxygen and carbon dioxide exchange, lung volume and compliance, etc.
term code: D012129

Surveys and Questionnaires
type: DefinedTerm
description: Collections of data obtained from voluntary subjects. The information usually takes the form of answers to questions, or suggestions.
term code: D011795

Body Weight
type: DefinedTerm
description: The mass or quantity of heaviness of an individual. It is expressed by units of pounds or kilograms.
term code: D001835

Drug Utilization
type: DefinedTerm
description: The utilization of drugs as reported in individual hospital studies, FDA studies, marketing, or consumption, etc. This includes drug stockpiling, and patient drug profiles.
term code: D004363

SOCIAL PARTICIPATION
type: DefinedTerm
description: INVOLVEMENT IN SOCIAL OR COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

WORKING CONDITIONS
type: DefinedTerm
description: THE PHYSICAL, SOCIAL AND MANAGERIAL FACTORS AFFECTING A WORKER'S JOB ENVIRONMENT

TRAFFIC NOISE
type: DefinedTerm

ASSAULT
type: DefinedTerm