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    Overview
    Alternative title
    Gesundheit und Gesundheitsverhalten von österreichischen Schülerinnen und Schülern
    Acronym
    HBSC
    Type of information
    Survey/interview data
    Description

    The HBSC research network is an international alliance of researchers that collaborate on the cross-national survey of school students: Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC). The HBSC collects data every four years on 11-, 13-, 15- and 17-year-old boys' and girls' health and well-being, social environments and health behaviours. It is carried out in close cooperation with WHO-Europe. HBSC now includes 51 countries and regions across Europe (including Austria) and North America. 

    HBSC focuses on understanding young people's health in their social context – where they live, at school, with family and friends. Researchers in the HBSC network are interested in understanding how these factors, individually and together, influence young people's health as they move from childhood into young adulthood.

    The international standard questionnaire produced for every survey cycle enables the collection of common data across all participating countries and thus enables the quantification of patterns of key health behaviours, health indicators and contextual variables. These data allow cross-national comparisons to be made and, with successive surveys, trend data is gathered and may be examined at both the national and cross-national level. 

    Funding

    In Austria, the HBSC study is commissioned and financed by the Ministry of Health and supported by the Ministry of Education.

    Free keywords
    Children
    Health behavior
    Healthy Eating Habits
    Topics
    Health status » Wellbeing ;
    Determinants of health » Individual characteristics and behaviours » Behaviours ;
    Determinants of health » Socioeconomic and demographic factors
    Country(ies):
    GEO coverage
    Multinational
    Target Population
    Specific groups
    Age range
    From 11 years to 17 years
    Sex
    Both
    Data Collection Period
    Language(s)
    English,
    German
    Updating Periodicity
    Every 4 years
    Personal Identifier
    Participant number
    Level of aggregation
    Individual
    Terms of data access

    For data access enquiries please contact:
    The HBSC Data Management Centre is based at the Department of Health Promotion and Development in the University of Bergen, Norway. Professor Oddrun Samdal is the Data Manager of the HBSC study.
    Email: dmc@hbsc.org
    Web: https://www.uib.no/en/hbscdata

    For general enquiries please contact:
    The HBSC International Coordinating Centre is based at MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Scotland. Dr Joanna Inchley is the International Coordinator of the HBSC study.
    Email: info@hbsc.org
    Web: http://www.hbsc.org/

    For HBSC-members:
    The HBSC Data Archive, is only available for members of the network.

    Data Owner(s)
    Gesundheit Österreich GmbH,
    Bundesministerium für Soziales, Gesundheit, Pflege und Konsumentenschutz
    Contact name
    Rosemarie Felder-Puig
    Contact e-mail
    Rosemarie.Felder-Puig@hbsc.org
    Contact phone number
    +43-1-515 61 375
    Contact info (address)

    Austrian National Public Health Institute (Gesundheit Österreich GmbH) Stubenring 6 A-1010 Vienna, AUSTRIA

    Updated on 16 October 2023