National Environment Health Survey 2007
SND-ID: ext0066-1.
Is part of collection at SND: Scania Metadatabase for Epidemiology (SME)
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Contact
Antonios Georgelis
Associated documentation
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Antonios Georgelis - Stockholms läns landsting, Centrum för Arbets- och miljömedicin
Research principal
Public Health Agency of Sweden
- Institute of Environmental Medicine
Description
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 been conducted in 1999, 2007 and 2015.
The National environment health survey 2007 (NMHE 07) was sent to 43905 randomly selected persons in the hole country. The target population were everyone aged 18-80 living in Sweden during the last five years.
Statistics Sweden (SCB) in association with occupation and environment- medicine (AMM) at Stockholm county has and sent out the questionnaires. They also have sent out reminders and transformed answered questionnaires to data files. SCB has completed answered questionnaires with register data and unidentified the data file. The investigation was approved by the Regional ethical committee in Stockholm.
In order to made follow up studies possible, SCB has a code-key making it possible to identify participants in the future. NMHE 07 has been constructed so that answers from the questionnaire is possible to compare with N
The National environment health survey 2007 (NMHE 07) was sent to 43905 randomly selected persons in the hole country. The target population were everyone aged 18-80 living in Sweden during the last five years.
Statistics Sweden (SCB) in association with occupation and environment- medicine (AMM) at Stockholm county has and sent out the questionnaires. They also have sent out reminders and transformed answered questionnaires to data files. SCB has completed answered questionnaires with register data and unidentified the data file. The investigation was approved by the Regional ethical committee in Stockholm.
In order to made follow up studies possible, SCB has a code-key making it possible to identify participants in the future. NMHE 07 has been constructed so that answers from the questionnaire is possible to compare with NMHE 99. A vast majority of the questions are the same as the questions used 1999. The questionnaire has also been updated with 32 questions within new areas such as life-quality, sunhabits, telefonia etc.
The questionnaire was answered by 25 935 individuals, representing a response rate of 59%.
Purpose:
The aim was to chart environmental exposure and environmental illness in the adult population Show less..
Unit of analysis
Population
All individuals aged between 18-80, who have been resident in Sweden for the last five years.
Time Method
Sampling procedure
Time period(s) investigated
2007-03 – 2007-09
Number of individuals/objects
25851
Response rate/participation rate
59%
Data format / data structure
Geographic spread
Geographic location: Sweden
Lowest geographic unit
County (NUTS 3)
Highest geographic unit
Country
Responsible department/unit
Institute of Environmental Medicine
Research area
Medical and health sciences (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)
Health sciences (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)
Occupational health and environmental health (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)
Health (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Keywords
Housing, Medicinal drugs, Smoking, Cardiovascular diseases, Public health, Mental health, Tinnitus, Coughing, Transport, Passive smoking, Environment and public health, Epidemiologic studies, Respiratory tract diseases, Signs and symptoms, Population surveillance, Hearing loss, Risk factors, Diet, Asthma, Noise, Eczema, Emphysema, Surveys and questionnaires, Hypertension, Air pollution, Drug utilization, Nasal obstruction, Smoke, Hypersensitivity, Parks, Housing conditions, Green belt areas, Traffic noise, Bronchitis, Smell, Water infrastructure, Walking ability, Scania, Epihealth_skåne