DATABASE
The Children's Database (BDB) contains data on infants' exposure to tobacco smoke at home and for how long they are breast-fed in Denmark. The database also includes information about the height and weight of Danish children.
The database contains data from the preventive examinations of children provided to all Danish children by nurses, municipally-employed doctors and general practitioners. It should be noted that even though the registry was set up in 2009, it was only obligatory for municipalities to report to the Children's Database from the end of 2011 and so the data is most complete from 2012 and thereafter.Description of the database.
Children and adolecents
Scientific Services (Danish: Forskerservice) at The Danish Health Data Authority is a Joint port of access to pseudo anonymized data that the Danish Health Data Authority are responsible for. Scientific Services works to support health research in Denmark, by providing access to, as well as advising on use of the National Danish health data.
Via Scientific Service researchers can obtain access to these data, either in a safe environment on the Research Mashine (Danish: Forskermaskinen) or by ordering data extractions that are delivered directly to the researcher.
To apply for access to data, a list of requirements must be obtained. A Project description and an extension description must be attached, containing information about which registries, variables, population and period that are applied for. Furthermore, the Danish Data Protection Agency (Danish: Datatilsynet) must approve the research project, and the approval should be attached to the application. If the research project includes direct contact with humans or human biological material, The National Committee on Health Research Ethics must also approve the project.
As a public authority and data processor The Danish Health Data Authority are subject to Danish laws for treatment of personal data, that should secure that the Danish health data are treated right. These legislations include The Act on Processing of Personal Data (Danish: Persondataloven) and The Danish Act of Health (Danish: Sundhedloven).
