Christian Harsløf's presentation on Population Health and Prevention in Denmark at the Healthcare DENMARK Ambassador Summit 2014 in Copenhagen.

1. Population Health and Preventionin Denmark
Christian Harsløf, Head of Division, Local GovernmentDenmark

2. Municipalresponsibilitiesin healthcare
•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
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3. Municipal health service is changing
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Primary Prevention and public health
Chronic care programs
Follow-up after discharge
Hospi tal izat ion
Physiotherapy
Rehabilitation
Palliative treatment

4. Public Health in Denmark –from niche to mainstream
Visibility
Structuralpevention

5. Otherexamples

6. 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.
•Labourmarket 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 prevalence
amongst academics
(7,5 %)
• Increase from 2010 to
2013 by 0,7 points.

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Heavy Smoking
(pct. of
population
• Primarily men are
heavy smokers
• Correlated to
education

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Obesity
• No significant
difference between
genders
• Correlated to
education
• 14,1 % of the adult
population 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

12. Perspectivesand use
•Research
•Combination with other health care data
•Data driven health care planning in general
•Screening
•Targeting interventions
•Targeting solutions
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13. • 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