Lennart Köhler
Biographic Data
| ID | 6161440 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lennart Köhler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lennart |
| FAMILY NAME | Köhler |
| SIGNATURE | KOHLER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nordic School of Public Health |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9838-8274 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Children’s health in Europe - challenges for the next decades
These reflections from a Child Public Health perspective underline the dramatic changes in children's conditions in Europe over this last century, including a considerable improvement in health. However, we still face problems, disturbing facts and alarming signs. There are important gaps in our knowledge about essential areas of children's health panorama and about particularly vulnerable sub-groups of children, which are less healthy, less well…
A Child Health Index for Sweden’s 290 Municipalities: A System of Indicators and Indices for Monitoring Children’s Health on the Local Level
This broad survey of children's health and wellbeing in Sweden's 290 municipalities converts freely available national data to a set of 13 high quality indicators, and makes local surveillance and comparisons possible. Combining the indicators, using equal weights, into relevant domains as 5 sub-indices and then again into one summary index provides one index for the great picture, sub-indices for the various domains of child health and separate …
Core Indicators of Children’s Health and Well-Being at the Municipal Level in Greenland
Children’s use of dental services in the five Nordic countries
BACKGROUND: An increase in the use of general practitioner services for children has taken place since the 1980s in the Nordic countries, but little is known about the use of dental services during this time. AIM: To compare differences in children's use of dental services in the five Nordic countries and to analyse changes over time from the 1980s to the 1990s. METHODS: The participants were 20 500 children aged 2-17 years from Denmark, Finland,…
Social paediatrics
Social paediatrics is an approach to child health that focuses on the child, in illness and in health, within the context of their society, environment, school, and family. The glossary clarifies the range of terms used to describe aspects of paediatric practice that overlap or are subsumed under social paediatrics and defines key social paediatric concepts. The glossary was compiled by a process of consultation and consensus building among the a…
Does financial strain explain the association between children’s morbidity and parental non-employment
Objectives: To investigate whether family financial resources explain the association between parental labour market participation and children’s health in families in Denmark and Sweden. Design: Parent reported questionnaire data from the survey of health and welfare among children and adolescents in the Nordic countries, 1996. Participants: 4299 children aged 2–17 years. Measures: Three indicators measured children’s health: recurrent psychosom…
Socioeconomic differences in children's use of physician services in the Nordic countries
Objective: To assess the relation between socioeconomic factors and the use of physician services among children and whether variations of the level of co-payment are correlated with different levels of inequalities in health services use. Design: Description of the socioeconomic differences in the use of health care using data from countrywide postal surveys to parents. Setting: The five Nordic countries in 1996. Subjects: Samples of 15 000 chil…
Socioeconomic differences in children's use of physician services in the Nordic countries
Objective: To assess the relation between socioeconomic factors and the use of physician services among children and whether variations of the level of co-payment are correlated with different levels of inequalities in health services use. Design: Description of the socioeconomic differences in the use of health care using data from countrywide postal surveys to parents. Setting: The five Nordic countries in 1996. Subjects: Samples of 15 000 chil…
A Child Health Index for Sweden’s 290 Municipalities: A System of Indicators and Indices for Monitoring Children’s Health on the Local Level
This broad survey of children's health and wellbeing in Sweden's 290 municipalities converts freely available national data to a set of 13 high quality indicators, and makes local surveillance and comparisons possible. Combining the indicators, using equal weights, into relevant domains as 5 sub-indices and then again into one summary index provides one index for the great picture, sub-indices for the various domains of child health and separate …
Core Indicators of Children’s Health and Well-Being at the Municipal Level in Greenland
Does financial strain explain the association between children’s morbidity and parental non-employment
Objectives: To investigate whether family financial resources explain the association between parental labour market participation and children’s health in families in Denmark and Sweden. Design: Parent reported questionnaire data from the survey of health and welfare among children and adolescents in the Nordic countries, 1996. Participants: 4299 children aged 2–17 years. Measures: Three indicators measured children’s health: recurrent psychosom…
Socioeconomic differences in children's use of physician services in the Nordic countries
Objective: To assess the relation between socioeconomic factors and the use of physician services among children and whether variations of the level of co-payment are correlated with different levels of inequalities in health services use. Design: Description of the socioeconomic differences in the use of health care using data from countrywide postal surveys to parents. Setting: The five Nordic countries in 1996. Subjects: Samples of 15 000 chil…
Social paediatrics
Social paediatrics is an approach to child health that focuses on the child, in illness and in health, within the context of their society, environment, school, and family. The glossary clarifies the range of terms used to describe aspects of paediatric practice that overlap or are subsumed under social paediatrics and defines key social paediatric concepts. The glossary was compiled by a process of consultation and consensus building among the a…
Does financial strain explain the association between children’s morbidity and parental non-employment
Objectives: To investigate whether family financial resources explain the association between parental labour market participation and children’s health in families in Denmark and Sweden. Design: Parent reported questionnaire data from the survey of health and welfare among children and adolescents in the Nordic countries, 1996. Participants: 4299 children aged 2–17 years. Measures: Three indicators measured children’s health: recurrent psychosom…
Children’s use of dental services in the five Nordic countries
BACKGROUND: An increase in the use of general practitioner services for children has taken place since the 1980s in the Nordic countries, but little is known about the use of dental services during this time. AIM: To compare differences in children's use of dental services in the five Nordic countries and to analyse changes over time from the 1980s to the 1990s. METHODS: The participants were 20 500 children aged 2-17 years from Denmark, Finland,…
Core Indicators of Children’s Health and Well-Being at the Municipal Level in Greenland
Children’s health in Europe - challenges for the next decades
These reflections from a Child Public Health perspective underline the dramatic changes in children's conditions in Europe over this last century, including a considerable improvement in health. However, we still face problems, disturbing facts and alarming signs. There are important gaps in our knowledge about essential areas of children's health panorama and about particularly vulnerable sub-groups of children, which are less healthy, less well…
A Child Health Index for Sweden’s 290 Municipalities: A System of Indicators and Indices for Monitoring Children’s Health on the Local Level
This broad survey of children's health and wellbeing in Sweden's 290 municipalities converts freely available national data to a set of 13 high quality indicators, and makes local surveillance and comparisons possible. Combining the indicators, using equal weights, into relevant domains as 5 sub-indices and then again into one summary index provides one index for the great picture, sub-indices for the various domains of child health and separate …
Medicine (7 works) · Environmental health (4 works) · Child and Adolescent Health (3 works) · Demography (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Logistic regression (3 works) · Odds (3 works) · Odds ratio (3 works) · Pediatrics (3 works) · Pediatrics (3 works)