National environment health survey 2015

The environmental health survey is carried out in collaboration between the Institute of Environmental Medicine at Karolinska Institutet and the Statistics Sweden, on behalf of the Public Health Agency of Sweden. The study has previously been conducted in 1999 and 2007. The national environment health survey 2015 was sent to 88,091 randomly selected persons in the hole country. The target population were everyone aged 18-84 living in Sweden during the last five years. More than 37,000 people responded to the questionnaire, which represents a response rate of 42 percent. The questionnaire contains questions about exposure, annoyance, symptoms and diseases related to environmental factors. SCB completed answered questionnaires with register data. In most cases, the questions are the same as in previous environmental health surveys (2007 and 1999). Purpose: The aim was to chart environmental exposure and environmental illness in the adult population.