Perspectives on environment and health research in Denmark.

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 individu

SUBMITTER: Horsdal HT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11308320 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature