TY - JOUR
T1 - Perspectives on environment and health research in Denmark
AU - Horsdal, Henriette T.
AU - Pedersen, Marianne G.
AU - Schullehner, Jörg
AU - Østergaard, Cecilie S.
AU - Mcgrath, John J.
AU - Agerbo, Esben
AU - Timmermann, Allan
AU - Closter, Ane Marie
AU - Brandt, Jørgen
AU - Christensen, Jesper H.
AU - Frohn, Lise M.
AU - Geels, Camilla
AU - Ketzel, Matthias
AU - Khan, Jibran
AU - Ørby, Pia V.
AU - Olsen, Yulia
AU - Levin, Gregor
AU - Svenning, Jens-Christian
AU - Engemann, Kristine
AU - Gyldenkærne, Steen
AU - Hansen, Birgitte
AU - Hertel, Ole
AU - Sabel, Clive E.
AU - Erikstrup, Christian
AU - Sigsgaard, Torben
AU - Pedersen, Carsten B.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Author(s) 2023.
PY - 2024/8
Y1 - 2024/8
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Environment
KW - exposome
KW - health
KW - population
KW - registers
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85162962548&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/14034948231178076
DO - 10.1177/14034948231178076
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85162962548
SN - 1403-4948
VL - 52
SP - 741
EP - 751
JO - Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
JF - Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
IS - 6
ER -
