Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Antonios Georgelis - Stockholms läns landsting, Centrum för Arbets- och miljömedicin
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
Research principal
Responsible department/unit
Institute of Environmental Medicine
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
Geographic spread
Geographic location: Sweden
Lowest geographic unit
County (NUTS3)
Highest geographic unit
Country
Research area
HEALTH
(CESSDA Topic Classification)
Medical and Health Sciences, Health Sciences, Occupational Health and Environmental Health
(The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
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, epihealth_skåne, scania
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Contact
Antonios Georgelis
Associated documentation
Data format / data structure
Numeric
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Antonios Georgelis - Stockholms läns landsting, Centrum för Arbets- och miljömedicin
Time period(s) investigated
2007-03 – 2007-09
Number of individuals/objects
25851
Response rate/participation rate
59%