Distance to green space and physical activity: a Danish national representative survey.

Background: This study examines the relationship between distance to green space and the level of physical activity among the population of Denmark. In addition, the relationship between distance to green space and obesity is investigated.

Methods: Data derived from the Danish National Health Interview Survey 2005, a cross-sectional survey based on a region-stratified random nationally representative sample of 21,832 Danish adults.

Health promoting outdoor environments--associations between green space, and health, health-related quality of life and stress based on a Danish national representative survey.

Aims: To investigate the associations between green space and health, health-related quality of life and stress, respectively.

Methods: Data were derived from the 2005 Danish Health Interview Survey and are based on a region-stratified random sample of 21,832 adults. Data were collected via face-to-face interviews followed by a self-administered questionnaire, including the SF-36, which measures eight dimensions of health and the Perceived Stress Scale, which measures self-reported stress.

Review of 345 eye amputations carried out in the period 1996-2003, at Rigshospitalet, Denmark.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to identify the number of eye amputations, and the causative diagnoses, indications for surgery and surgical techniques applied, and to evaluate a possible change in surgical technique in a tertiary referral centre in Denmark.

Methods: The hospital database was screened using surgery codes for patients who had undergone bulbar evisceration, enucleation or orbital exenteration in the period 1996-2003. Patient records were reviewed for gender, age, time since surgery, causative diagnosis (the disease process leading to the indication for amputation), indication for eye amputation, type of surgery and whether an implant was applied.

Sexual desire in a nationally representative Danish population.

Introduction: There are only a few studies on the frequency of sexual desire in the general population, whereas studies investigating the frequency of disordered sexual desire are more common.

Aim: The aim of this study was to describe the frequency of sexual desire in a representative sample of the adult Danish population and to analyze the relationships between a number of relevant variables and sexual desire.

Methods: The study population (N = 10,458, response rate 84.

[More recent measures for a nation's state of health--a review].

The objective of this article was to give a conceptual survey of old and new measures for a nation's state of health with special focus on new measures seeking to combine mortality with morbidity, functional, and quality of life dimensions. Internationally, the development has given rise to two different movements. One (represented by Denmark and the rest of the EU) aims to develop a large number of standardized indicators, whereas the other (represented by the WHO and the World Bank) builds on the idea that it must be possible to combine the many indicators into a single summary measure for a nation's state of health.

[The scientific committee system].

Since 1992 a law based national system of Scientific Ethical Committees has existed. It consists of regional committees supplemented with a Central Committee. The Danish model is characterised by having a majority of lay people in all committees.

Summary measures of population health. An overview.

The objective of the paper is to give a conceptual overview of old and new measures of a nation's state of health with special focus on new measures seeking to combine mortality with morbidity, functional and quality of life dimensions. Internationally, the development has given rise to two different movements. One (in Denmark and the EU) aims to develop a large number of standardised indicators, while the other (the WHO and the World Bank) builds on the idea that it must be possible to combine the many indicators into a single summary measure of a nation's state of health.

The Danish Prevention Register. A comprehensive health and socio-economic, individual based register.

The Danish Prevention Register has been created recently as a very comprehensive national individual based register, based on register linkage. The Prevention Register currently comprises eight registers, which have been linked together using the unique personal identification number. The register contains data from 1977 and onwards.

[Evaluation of public health services].

The Nordic Congress on Public Health, at Gothenborg, in June 1995, was focused on questions of evaluation. The article reviews basic evaluation concepts, presents a checklist for the planning of evaluation, and proposes an evaluation strategy, as well as standardised terminology for use in trials related to the spread of innovations. The following terms are proposed: news trials, demonstration trials, acceptance trials, and quality assurance trials, each type of trial being linked with appropriate methods.

Fibromyalgia in the adult Danish population: II. A study of clinical features.

Clinical characteristics of fibromyalgia have so far been based mainly on patients identified in rheumatologic settings. This paper offers the clinical findings in fibromyalgia based on a national health interview survey, in which 123 persons fulfilled preset criteria for widespread pain. Clinical examination could be performed on 65 subjects (53%) and included physical examination, tender point palpation by two blinded trained physicians, blood sample analysis, measurement of dynamic muscular strength and a detailed self-administered questionnaire.