Health interview survey in Greenland.

The Greenland Health Interview Survey was initiated in 1991 by the Greenlandic health authorities in order to generate a comprehensive and epidemiologically sound basis for health planning and prevention. Trained interviewers have collected information from June 1993 until now but results are not available yet. In a culturally sensitive frame of reference information is gathered on self-perceived health, use of health services, life style and living conditions. The interviewers are indigenous lay persons and the main survey neither includes clinical examinations nor collection of blood specimens. The scope of the survey is broad and several topics are relevant for family health. The main questionnaire covers persons 18 years old and over.