Christian Harsløf's presentation from the Healthcare DENMARK Ambassador Summit
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Transcript of Christian Harsløf's presentation from the Healthcare DENMARK Ambassador Summit
Population Health and Prevention in Denmark
Christian Harsløf, Head of Division, Local GovernmentDenmark
Municipal responsibilities in health
care
• Preventive care and health promotion
• Rehabilitation outside hospital
• Home nursing
• Co-financing regional health care
• Treatment of alcohol and drug abuse
• Child nursing
• Child dental services
• School health care
• Special dental care
• …and employment, social welfare, public schools, daycare etc.
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Municipal health service is
changing
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Primary Prevention
and public health
Chronic care
programs
Follow-up after
discharge
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Physiotherapy
Rehabilitation
Palliative
treatment
Public Health in Denmark – from
niche to mainstream
Visibility Structural pevention
Other examples
The Health Profile
• Based on a survey conducted every 4 years (just before local elections) – self reported data
• About 100.000 participants (min. 15 years)
• Data on:
• Life style factors such as smoking, alcohol consumption, physical
activity, consumption of veg and fruit, sugar etc.
• Disease data such as diabetes, COPD, heart disease, cancer,
arthritis, psychiatric diseases, pain etc.
• Labour market relations
• General health status and health consumption
• Several background data such as residence, job status,
education income, gender, age, marital status etc.
• All data is available online and in App Store and free to use (Danish only)
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Mental health
problems
• Lowest prevalenceamongst academics(7,5 %)
• Increase from 2010 to 2013 by 0,7 points.
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Heavy Smoking
(pct. of
population
• Primarily men areheavy smokers
• Correlated to education
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Obesity
• No significantdifference betweengenders
• Correlated to education
• 14,1 % of the adultpopulation is obese
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Daily physical
activity
18,1 %
• Correlated to education
• The citizens of the Capital Region is significantly more active than citizens in the rest of the country
Perspectives and use
• Research
• Combination with other health care data
• Data driven health care planning in general
• Screening
• Targeting interventions
• Targeting solutions
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• Tobacco
• Alcohol
• Physical Activity
• Mental Health
• Sexual Prevention
• Sun Protection
• Food and beverage
• Indoor Climate
• Hygiene
• Obesity
• Drug and substance
abuse
Prevention Packages – evidence based (where
possible) or quasi evidence based knowledge
on prevention