Risk factors and public health in
Knud Juel, Jan Sørensen and Henrik Brønnum-Hansen
Volume 36 Supplement 1 November 2008
Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
Available online PDF [230p.] at; http://sjp.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/36/1_suppl/1
“……This report presents a comprehensive, broad description and analysis of the impact of selected risk factors on public health in
As used in this study the term risk factor is broadly defined as a factor causally related to health status.
The individual risk factors may occur at various levels in a larger causal network encompassing biological factors such as hypertension, lifestyle risk factors such as smoking, and social factors such as educational level.
The report operates with 19 risk factors and 18 indicators of health and social economic costs. The choice of risk factors and indicators was made by the National Institute of Public Health in consultation with the National Board of Health on the basis of their importance and public interest and data availability….”
Content
1 Summary
2 Background and purpose
2.1 Disease model
2.2 The risk factors included
2.3 The health indicators selected
2.4 References
3 Data sources
3.1 Cause of Death Register
3.2 National Patient Registry
3.3 National Health Insurance Service Registry
3.4 Danish Health Interview Surveys
3.5 Danish National Cohort Study
3.6 Information on education and mortality from Statistics Denmark
3.7 Social Appeals Board Registry
3.8
3.9 References
4 Methods
4.1 Mortality
4.2 Prevalence and relative risk
4.3 The aetiological fraction
4.4 Long-standing limiting illness
4.5 Years of healthy life lost
4.6 Quality-adjusted life years
4.7 Prognosis models and effects of risk reduction
4.8 Hospital contacts
4.9 Contacts with general practitioners
4.10 Sickness absence
4.11 Social disability pensions
4.12 Primary health care costs
4.13 Social economic costs
4.14 Confounder control
4.15 References
5 Smoking
6 Alcohol
7 Drug abuse
8 Physical inactivity
9 Overweight
10 Unhealthy diet
11 Unsafe sex
12 Hypertension
13 Occupational accidents
14 Occupational diseases
15 Psychosocial job strain
16 Passive smoking
17 Home and leisure accidents
18 Traffic accidents
19 Weak social relations
20 Education
21 Disability-adjusted life years
22 Expected impact on mortality of intervention scenarios for selected risk factors
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