Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children, Sweden 2009/10
type: Dataset
description: The survey Schoolchildren's Health Habits is a part of the international research project Health Behaviour in School-aged Children, created on the initiative of the World Health Organization. Sweden participated in the survey since 1985/86. The study includes a random sample of 11 -, 13 - and 15-year-olds in each country. The survey covers questions about health, lifestyle, the environment at school and at home. The results are used to monitor the children's and young people's health over time and to identify areas requiring action to promote child and adolescent health. School children's health habits is a basis in the follow-up work in the public health policy goal area three, children and young people's living conditions. The study that was conducted in 2009/10 is based on data from 11-, 13- and 15-year-olds, collected in November and December 2009. The survey was answered by nearly 7000 students in Sweden, representing a response rate of 88 percent. Purpose: The purpose with Health Behaviour in School-aged children is partly to increase the knowledge of habits and conditions that are considered to be important for children's health, and partly to monitor progress over time and to make comparisons with other countries.
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creative work status: completed
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creator: Public Health Agency of Sweden
date modified: 2025-07-01
date published: 2014-09-18
keywords: EDUCATION
keywords: HEALTH
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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keywords: Persons
keywords: Activities of Daily Living
keywords: Health Surveys
keywords: Exercise
keywords: Population Surveillance
keywords: Socioeconomic Factors
keywords: Behavior
keywords: Diet
keywords: Alcohol Drinking
keywords: Child
keywords: Family
keywords: Public Health
keywords: Health
keywords: Sex
keywords: Interpersonal Relations
keywords: Mental Health
keywords: Tobacco, Smokeless
keywords: Cross-Sectional Studies
keywords: Education
keywords: Energy Intake
keywords: Feeding Behavior
publisher: Public Health Agency of Sweden
size: QuantitativeValue
  unit text: cases
  value: 6880
spatial coverage: Sweden
temporal coverage: 2009-11/2009-12
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Public Health Agency of Sweden
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EDUCATION
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HEALTH
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Persons
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description: Persons as individuals (e.g., ABORTION APPLICANTS) or as members of a group (e.g., HISPANIC AMERICANS). It is not used for members of the various professions (e.g., PHYSICIANS) or occupations (e.g., LIBRARIANS) for which OCCUPATIONAL GROUPS is available.
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Activities of Daily Living
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description: The performance of the basic activities of self care, such as dressing, ambulation, or eating.
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Health Surveys
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description: A systematic collection of factual data pertaining to health and disease in a human population within a given geographic area.
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Exercise
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description: Physical activity which is usually regular and done with the intention of improving or maintaining PHYSICAL FITNESS or HEALTH. Contrast with PHYSICAL EXERTION which is concerned largely with the physiologic and metabolic response to energy expenditure.
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Population Surveillance
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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.
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Socioeconomic Factors
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description: Social and economic factors that characterize the individual or group within the social structure.
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Behavior
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description: The observable response of a man or animal to a situation.
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Diet
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description: Regular course of eating and drinking adopted by a person or animal.
term code: D004032

Alcohol Drinking
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description: Behaviors associated with the ingesting of ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, including social drinking.
term code: D000428

Child
type: DefinedTerm
description: A person 6 to 12 years of age. An individual 2 to 5 years old is CHILD, PRESCHOOL.
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Family
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description: A social group consisting of parents or parent substitutes and children.
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Public Health
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description: Branch of medicine concerned with the prevention and control of disease and disability, and the promotion of physical and mental health of the population on the international, national, state, or municipal level.
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Health
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description: The state of the organism when it functions optimally without evidence of disease.
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Sex
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description: The totality of characteristics of reproductive structure, functions, PHENOTYPE, and GENOTYPE, differentiating the MALE from the FEMALE organism.
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Interpersonal Relations
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Mental Health
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description: Emotional, psychological, and social well-being of an individual or group.
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Tobacco, Smokeless
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description: Any product of NICOTIANA TABACUM that is not smoked but is either inhaled through the nose, chewed, or stored in cheek pouches.
term code: D014030

Cross-Sectional Studies
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description: Studies in which the presence or absence of disease or other health-related variables are determined in each member of the study population or in a representative sample at one particular time. This contrasts with LONGITUDINAL STUDIES which are followed over a period of time.
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Education
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description: Acquisition of knowledge as a result of instruction in a formal course of study.
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SCHOOLS
type: DefinedTerm

SCHOOLCHILDREN
type: DefinedTerm

Energy Intake
type: DefinedTerm
description: Total number of calories taken in daily whether ingested or by parenteral routes.
term code: D002149

Feeding Behavior
type: DefinedTerm
description: Behavioral responses or sequences associated with eating including modes of feeding, rhythmic patterns of eating, and time intervals.
term code: D005247

Sweden
type: Place