Background While Denmark is well known for its plethora of registers. Many studies are
conducted on research databases that only cover parts of Denmark, and regional …

Background Reliable data from health surveys are essential to describe the status and
trends in health indicators by means of information not available from official registers. In …

Population-based prescription databases in Nordic countries have become a mainstay of
epidemiologic research. Denmark has both national and regional population-based …

Denmark has a long tradition of creating nationwide administrative and health registries. 1, 2
Examples include its registries on causes of death, 3 hospitalizations 4 and cancer, 5 and on …

Denmark and the other Nordic countries were among the first to introduce publicly available
drug use statistics. 1 The first versions from the 1970s were mere aggregate statistics …

Objective To analyse the association among different types of medicine use and different
measures of socio-economic position (SEP) in one and the same general population …

Aims: In 2010 the five Danish regions and the National Institute of Public Health at the
University of Southern Denmark conducted a national representative health survey among …

Background To determine gender differences in health and health care utilisation within and
between various ethnic groups in the Netherlands. Methods Data from the second Dutch …

The first wave of the German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Adults, 2008–
2011 (DEGS1), assesses current medicine use among participating adults aged 18–79 …

Background: This article examines the nature of ethnic differences in health care utilisation
by assessing patterns of use in addition to single service utilisation. Methods: Data were …