Perspectives on environment and health research in Denmark.
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ABSTRACT: Aims
We provide an overview of nationwide environmental data available for Denmark and its linkage potentials to individual-level records with the aim of promoting research on the potential impact of the local surrounding environment on human health.Background
Researchers in Denmark have unique opportunities for conducting large population-based studies treating the entire Danish population as one big, open and dynamic cohort based on nationally complete population and health registries. So far, most research in this area has utilised individual- and family-level information to study the clustering of disease in families, comorbidities, risk of, and prognosis after, disease onset, and social gradients in disease risk. Linking environmental data in time and space to individuals enables novel possibilities for studying the health effects of the social, built and physical environment.Methods
We describe the possible linkage between individuals and their local surrounding environment to establish the exposome - that is, the total environmental exposure of an individual over their life course.Conclusions
The currently available nationwide longitudinal environmental data in Denmark constitutes a valuable and globally rare asset that can help explore the impact of the exposome on human health.
SUBMITTER: Horsdal HT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC11308320 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug
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Perspectives on environment and health research in Denmark.
Horsdal Henriette T HT Pedersen Marianne G MG Schullehner Jörg J Østergaard Cecilie S CS Mcgrath John J JJ Agerbo Esben E Timmermann Allan A Closter Ane Marie AM Brandt Jørgen J Christensen Jesper H JH Frohn Lise M LM Geels Camilla C Ketzel Matthias M Khan Jibran J Ørby Pia V PV Olsen Yulia Y Levin Gregor G Svenning Jens-Christian JC Engemann Kristine K Gyldenkærne Steen S Hansen Birgitte B Hertel Ole O Sabel Clive E CE Erikstrup Christian C Sigsgaard Torben T Pedersen Carsten B CB
Scandinavian journal of public health 20230606 6
<h4>Aims</h4>We provide an overview of nationwide environmental data available for Denmark and its linkage potentials to individual-level records with the aim of promoting research on the potential impact of the local surrounding environment on human health.<h4>Background</h4>Researchers in Denmark have unique opportunities for conducting large population-based studies treating the entire Danish population as one big, open and dynamic cohort based on nationally complete population and health reg ...[more]
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