Finnish Health 2000/2011 Surveys

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Start Year
2000
Supplementary Information
The Health 2000/2011 Surveys were conducted by the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL).
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Members

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Investigators Contacts
  • Annamari Lundqvist
    Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
  • Tuija Jääskeläinen
    Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

Design

Study design
Cohort
Follow Up
The local data can be linked to Finnish National Health Registers (e.g., mortality, cancer, health care and medicines) through the Findata-process by request. The invitation to take part in the Health 2011 Survey was sent to all persons who had been included in the random sample of the H2000 Survey 11 years earlier.
Supplementary Information
Deaths, several cardiovascular events, type 2 diabetes and cancers will be followed up and harmonized in the MORGAM Project.

Marker Paper

Heistaro S (eds.). Methodology report: Health 2000 survey. Kansanterveyslaitoksen julkaisuja B26/2008. Helsinki 2008. https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe201204193320

Lundqvist A, Mäki-Opas T (eds.). Health 2011 Survey - Methods. Terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin laitos, Report 8/2016. Helsinki 2016. https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-302-669-8

Recruitment

Sources of Recruitment
  • Individuals

Number of participants

Number of participants
8,700
Number of participants with biosamples
8,611
Supplementary Information
4200 participants participated in both years 2000 and 2011.

Data Access

Availability of data and biosamples

Data
Biosamples
Other

Sector of research

Data Biosamples
Investigators from the public sector
Investigators from the private sector
Investigators from not-for-profit organization

Access can be granted to research plans that pursue high scientific quality and impact, and correspond with the research areas of THL Biobank. The research team should aim to publish the research results in peer-reviewed scientific journals shortly after the completion of the project.

Transfer

Data Biosamples
Can leave the study facility
Can leave the country

Secure data access, such as passwords, firewalls, etc., must be in place to ensure that the shared data are kept secure.

Description of the access procedures

Biosamples and local data available for Health 2000/2011 Surveys are described in the THL Biobank webpage. Availability queries and application process to access THL Biobank resources are described in the application process page. The data of national health registers (e.g., mortality, cancer and other cases, health care and medicines) are available by request through Findata-process.

Data are being harmonized in the MORGAM Project (November 2022). After the harmonization is complete and consortium agreements are done, for access to the data from many MORGAM Centres, including Health 2000/2011, one should seek a collaboration with any of the Centre which can submit a publication proposal to the MORGAM/BiomarCaRE Steering Group.


Availability of access information

On the study website : https://thl.fi/en/web/thl-biobank/for-researche...

By contacting the study representative

Timeline

Health 2000/2011 Cohort

Selection Criteria
Minimum age
18
Countries
  • Finland
Territory
The survey was carried out in 80 study areas all over the country, excluding the Åland islands
Ethnic Origin
Health Status

Recruitment

Sources of recruitment
  • General population
  • Participants from existing studies
General Population
  • Selected sample
Supplementary Information
Participants from existing studies
  • Mini-Finland Survey

Number of participants

Number of participants
8,700
Number of participants with biosamples
8,611
Supplementary Information
Of persons aged 30 and over 89% participated in the home interview and 85% in the health examination in H2000. Of all those invited to the H2011, 67.3 per cent (n=6740) participated in at least one phase of the data collection. 4200 individuals participated in both years 2000 and 2011.
Data Collection Events
# Name Description Start End
0 Health 2000 Survey Baseline examination (questionnaire and health examination). People aged 18-29 only participated in the interview and filled out a basic questionnaire. The main content covered in the ... 2000-08 2001-06
1 Health 2011 Survey Re-examination of the H2000 cohort (questionnaire and health examination). The content covered in the questionnaire were sociodemographic factors, financial situation, living and working ... 2011-08 2012-05
2 Health 2000/2011 Local mortality and disease outcome follow-up Local follow-up of the participants through registry linkage. The data of the Finnish national health registers (e.g., mortality, cancer, health care and medicines) can be linked for all ... 2000-08
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