Health on equal terms? - Västra Götaland 2015: Cohort
type: Dataset
description: The survey “Health on equal terms?” is a national survey, conducted every year since 2004. The Public Health Agency is responsible for the survey and Statistics Sweden (SCB) is responsible for the distribution, collection and registration. During the data collection in 2015, Region Västra Götaland ordered an additional sample for Västra Götaland County. The additional sample in 2015 included all individuals aged 16-84 years living in Västra Götaland County, a total of 91,347 individuals. Including the national sample of Västra Götaland County the total number were 94,644 individuals. A part of the additional selection consisted a cohort of people from the survey in 2011. A total of 52,348 individuals answered the questionnaire, representing a response rate of 55,5 percent. The questionnaire was printed in two versions. The Public Health Agency designed the questions in the national questionnaire form. Region Västra Götaland excluded some of the questions in the national form and instead added three questions about work environment and the EQ5D-instrument. Both questionnaires covered issues of health, lifestyle, economic conditions, work and employment, and security and social relations. In addition to data collected through the questionnaires, registry data were also included. Purpose: The aim of the national survey was to investigate the health in the population and to show changes in the population's health over time as a follow up of the national health politics. The aim of the additional sample in Västra Götaland County was to investigate the health in the population in Västra Götaland County.
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creative work status: completed
  type: DefinedTerm
  in defined term set: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/dataset-status
  term code: COMPLETED
creator: Public Health Agency of Sweden
date modified: 2025-06-12
date published: 2015-07-02
keywords: HEALTH
keywords: Medical and Health Sciences
  type: DefinedTerm
  term code: 3
keywords: Health Services
keywords: Physical Examination
keywords: Dental Care
keywords: Hearing
keywords: Life Style
keywords: Medicine
keywords: Exercise
keywords: Population Surveillance
keywords: Hearing Loss
keywords: Socioeconomic Factors
keywords: Tinnitus
keywords: Urinary Incontinence
keywords: Anxiety
keywords: Overweight
keywords: Diet
keywords: Alcohol Drinking
keywords: Work
keywords: Asthma
keywords: Diabetes Mellitus
keywords: Eczema
keywords: Public Health
keywords: Leisure Activities
keywords: Cardiovascular Diseases
keywords: Headache
keywords: Health
keywords: Health Status
keywords: Hypertension
keywords: Body Weight
keywords: Drug Utilization
keywords: Gastrointestinal Diseases
keywords: Migraine Disorders
keywords: Oral Health
keywords: Depression
keywords: Interpersonal Relations
keywords: Mental Health
keywords: Registries
keywords: Smoking
keywords: Disease
keywords: Pain
keywords: Tobacco, Smokeless
keywords: Social Support
keywords: Stress, Psychological
keywords: Vision, Ocular
keywords: Sleep
keywords: Sleep Wake Disorders
keywords: Fatigue
keywords: Occupations
keywords: Hypersensitivity
keywords: Feeding Behavior
publisher: Region Västra Götaland
size: QuantitativeValue
  unit text: cases
  value: 11790
spatial coverage: Sweden
version: 1

Public Health Agency of Sweden
type: Organization

HEALTH
type: DefinedTerm
term code: Health

Health Services
type: DefinedTerm
description: Services for the diagnosis and treatment of disease and the maintenance of health.
term code: D006296

Physical Examination
type: DefinedTerm
description: Systematic and thorough inspection of the patient for physical signs of disease or abnormality.
term code: D010808

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

Hearing
type: DefinedTerm
description: The ability or act of sensing and transducing ACOUSTIC STIMULATION to the CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM. It is also called audition.
term code: D006309

Life Style
type: DefinedTerm
description: Typical way of life or manner of living characteristic of an individual or group. (From APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 8th ed)
term code: D008019

Medicine
type: DefinedTerm
description: The art and science of studying, performing research on, preventing, diagnosing, and treating disease, as well as the maintenance of health.
term code: D008511

Exercise
type: DefinedTerm
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.
term code: D015444

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

Hearing Loss
type: DefinedTerm
description: A general term for the complete or partial loss of the ability to hear from one or both ears.
term code: D034381

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

Tinnitus
type: DefinedTerm
description: A nonspecific symptom of hearing disorder characterized by the sensation of buzzing, ringing, clicking, pulsations, and other noises in the ear. Objective tinnitus refers to noises generated from within the ear or adjacent structures that can be heard by other individuals. The term subjective tinnitus is used when the sound is audible only to the affected individual. Tinnitus may occur as a manifestation of COCHLEAR DISEASES; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE DISEASES; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; and other conditions.
term code: D014012

Urinary Incontinence
type: DefinedTerm
description: Involuntary loss of URINE, such as leaking of urine. It is a symptom of various underlying pathological processes. Major types of incontinence include URINARY URGE INCONTINENCE and URINARY STRESS INCONTINENCE.
term code: D014549

Anxiety
type: DefinedTerm
description: Feelings or emotions of dread, apprehension, and impending disaster but not disabling as with ANXIETY DISORDERS.
term code: D001007

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

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

Work
type: DefinedTerm
description: Productive or purposeful activities.
term code: D014937

Asthma
type: DefinedTerm
description: A form of bronchial disorder with three distinct components: airway hyper-responsiveness (RESPIRATORY HYPERSENSITIVITY), airway INFLAMMATION, and intermittent AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION. It is characterized by spasmodic contraction of airway smooth muscle, WHEEZING, and dyspnea (DYSPNEA, PAROXYSMAL).
term code: D001249

Diabetes Mellitus
type: DefinedTerm
description: A heterogeneous group of disorders characterized by HYPERGLYCEMIA and GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE.
term code: D003920

Eczema
type: DefinedTerm
description: A dermatitis characterized by a spongiotic tissue reaction pattern occurring as a reaction to many endogenous and exogenous agents.
term code: D004485

Public Health
type: DefinedTerm
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.
term code: D011634

Leisure Activities
type: DefinedTerm
description: Voluntary use of free time for activities outside the daily routine.
term code: D007899

Cardiovascular Diseases
type: DefinedTerm
description: Pathological conditions involving the CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM including the HEART; the BLOOD VESSELS; or the PERICARDIUM.
term code: D002318

Headache
type: DefinedTerm
description: The symptom of PAIN in the cranial region. It may be an isolated benign occurrence or manifestation of a wide variety of HEADACHE DISORDERS.
term code: D006261

Health
type: DefinedTerm
description: The state of the organism when it functions optimally without evidence of disease.
term code: D006262

Health Status
type: DefinedTerm
description: The level of health of the individual, group, or population as subjectively assessed by the individual or by more objective measures.
term code: D006304

Hypertension
type: DefinedTerm
description: Persistently high systemic arterial BLOOD PRESSURE. Based on multiple readings (BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION), hypertension is currently defined as when SYSTOLIC PRESSURE is consistently greater than 140 mm Hg or when DIASTOLIC PRESSURE is consistently 90 mm Hg or more.
term code: D006973

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

Gastrointestinal Diseases
type: DefinedTerm
description: Diseases in any segment of the GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT from ESOPHAGUS to RECTUM.
term code: D005767

Migraine Disorders
type: DefinedTerm
description: A class of disabling primary headache disorders, characterized by recurrent unilateral pulsatile headaches. The two major subtypes are common migraine (without aura) and classic migraine (with aura or neurological symptoms). (International Classification of Headache Disorders, 2nd ed. Cephalalgia 2004: suppl 1)
term code: D008881

Oral Health
type: DefinedTerm
description: The optimal state of the mouth and normal functioning of the organs of the mouth without evidence of disease.
term code: D009909

Depression
type: DefinedTerm
description: Depressive states usually of moderate intensity in contrast with MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER present in neurotic and psychotic disorders.
term code: D003863

Interpersonal Relations
type: DefinedTerm
description: The reciprocal interaction of two or more persons.
term code: D007398

Mental Health
type: DefinedTerm
description: Emotional, psychological, and social well-being of an individual or group.
term code: D008603

Registries
type: DefinedTerm
description: The systems and processes involved in the establishment, support, management, and operation of registers, e.g., disease registers.
term code: D012042

Smoking
type: DefinedTerm
description: Willful or deliberate act of inhaling and exhaling SMOKE from burning substances or agents held by hand.
term code: D012907

Disease
type: DefinedTerm
description: A definite pathologic process with a characteristic set of signs and symptoms. It may affect the whole body or any of its parts, and its etiology, pathology, and prognosis may be known or unknown.
term code: D004194

Pain
type: DefinedTerm
description: An unpleasant sensation induced by noxious stimuli which are detected by NERVE ENDINGS of NOCICEPTIVE NEURONS.
term code: D010146

Tobacco, Smokeless
type: DefinedTerm
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

Social Support
type: DefinedTerm
description: Support systems that provide assistance and encouragement to individuals with physical or emotional disabilities in order that they may better cope. Informal social support is usually provided by friends, relatives, or peers, while formal assistance such as COMMUNITY SUPPORT is provided by churches, groups, etc.
term code: D012944

Stress, Psychological
type: DefinedTerm
description: Stress wherein emotional factors predominate.
term code: D013315

Vision, Ocular
type: DefinedTerm
description: The process in which light signals are transformed by the PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS into electrical signals which can then be transmitted to the brain.
term code: D014785

Sleep
type: DefinedTerm
description: A readily reversible suspension of sensorimotor interaction with the environment, usually associated with recumbency and immobility.
term code: D012890

Sleep Wake Disorders
type: DefinedTerm
description: Abnormal sleep-wake schedule or pattern associated with the CIRCADIAN RHYTHM which affect the length, timing, and/or rigidity of the sleep-wake cycle relative to the day-night cycle.
term code: D012893

Fatigue
type: DefinedTerm
description: The state of weariness following a period of exertion, mental or physical, characterized by a decreased capacity for work and reduced efficiency to respond to stimuli.
term code: D005221

Occupations
type: DefinedTerm
description: Crafts, trades, professions, or other means of earning a living.
term code: D009790

Hypersensitivity
type: DefinedTerm
description: Altered reactivity to an antigen, which can result in pathologic reactions upon subsequent exposure to that particular antigen.
term code: D006967

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

Region Västra Götaland
type: Organization

Sweden
type: Place