FINBALT HEALTH MONITOR
is a collaborative system for monitoring health related behaviour, practices and lifestyles in
- Estonia, since 1990
- Finland, since 1978
- Latvia, since 1998
- Lithuania, since 1994.
Finbalt Health Monitor -system monitors behaviour such as
- smoking
- alcohol consumption
- food habits and
- physical activity.
The Finbalt Health Monitor -system was put into action in order
- to serve national health policy and health promotion and
- to carry out comparative studies related to major public health problems in the participating countries.
The 'heart' of the project is a mailed questionnaire to nationally representative samples.