Health Profile: Tromsø, Norway

Tromsø is one of the urban areas chosen for EURO-URHIS 2 (European Urban Health Indicator System Part 2), a project that aims to identify health problems in urban areas. The EURO-URHIS 2 project describes health and health determinants specific to urban areas in Europe, covering cities in North, Eas...

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Main Authors: van Ameijden, Erik, Koster, Emmy, de Gelder, Rianne, van Buren, Laurens, Verma, Arpana
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: University of Manchester 2012
Subjects:
Public Health
Urban Health
Europe
Health-related characteristics
health status
determinants
healthy life expectancy
EURO-URHIS 2
Tromso
Norway
Tromsø
Online Access:https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publications/0a06ba63-1060-4100-9e39-80514e13a01f
https://doi.org/10.3927/171845
https://pure.manchester.ac.uk/ws/files/34056270/FULL_TEXT.PDF
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Summary:Tromsø is one of the urban areas chosen for EURO-URHIS 2 (European Urban Health Indicator System Part 2), a project that aims to identify health problems in urban areas. The EURO-URHIS 2 project describes health and health determinants specific to urban areas in Europe, covering cities in North, East, South, and West Europe. This project may add to information that is already locally available, in that it is the first study to enable reliable comparisons of health status between different cities in Europe. Policy makers can use the information to prioritise topics for urban health policy and for interventions in an evidence-based way.EURO-URHIS 2 gathered information by collecting data from routinely available registration data, and by conducting youth and adult surveys at the end of 2010. In total, data from 26 urban areas in Europe were available for between-city comparisons and benchmarking. The routinely available registration data relate to the most recently available year (2005-2010). The youth and adult surveys were not conducted in Tromsø.

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