Health, Environment and Lifestyle Among Youth in Sogn og Fjordane, 2012

The purpose of this project was to obtain data that could be used to promote health, well-being, social and environmental conditions, to prevent mental and somatic illness, injury or suffering, and to contribute to the equalization of social health inequalities. The project addresses in particular two important challenges for which more research is needed. First, that more and more young people are obese and overweight. In addition, too many Norwegian young people do not complete upper secondary school and thus are more exposed to health problems as adults. The main objective was to investigate self-reported health and quality of life as well as factors that can influence this. The study was carried out as a collaboration between Sogn og Fjordane County Municipality, the municipalities of upper secondary schools in Sogn og Fjordane, Sogn og Fjordane University College, Helse Førde and the University of Bergen.