Schmeiser-Rieder A, Kunze U, Mitsche N, Schwarz B, Schoberberger R, Kunze M
Institut für Sozialmedizin, Universität Wien.
Gesundheitswesen. 1997 Mar;59(3):144-9.
In Austria, microcensus surveys on self-reported morbidity are carried out at regular intervals every ten years, generally by the Federal Statistic Centre. In the following, we describe an epidemiological observational service which could be regarded as an additional public health instrument. This service is termed "health monitor", and the SERMO (self-reported morbidity) study is the scientific project associated with it. The "health monitor" data provide information on the prevalence of various illnesses and impairment, characteristics and variables of background morbidity by repeated short-term representative surveys on self-reported morbidity. The health monitor permits continual observation of the background morbidity of an entire population, while scientific questions pertaining to the SERMO study can be investigated via the health monitor data base. Self-reported morbidity data provide important information about the health of a general population, in addition to clinical and mortality data, and help to make decisions in health policy. By collecting informations (e.g. nearly every month) on background morbidity, "health monitor" and SERMO project could complement other Austrian public health systems to measure the overall health of the population in general.
在奥地利，关于自我报告发病率的微观人口普查每隔十年定期开展一次，通常由联邦统计中心负责。接下来，我们将描述一项可被视为额外公共卫生工具的流行病学观察服务。这项服务被称为“健康监测器”，而SERMO（自我报告发病率）研究是与之相关的科学项目。“健康监测器”数据通过对自我报告发病率进行反复的短期代表性调查，提供有关各种疾病和损伤的患病率、背景发病率的特征及变量的信息。健康监测器能够持续观察整个人口的背景发病率，而与SERMO研究相关的科学问题可通过健康监测器数据库进行调查。自我报告发病率数据除了临床和死亡率数据外，还提供有关普通人群健康状况的重要信息，并有助于在卫生政策方面做出决策。通过收集（例如几乎每月一次）关于背景发病率的信息，“健康监测器”和SERMO项目可以补充奥地利其他公共卫生系统，以总体衡量人口的整体健康状况。
