Health Survey of the City of Madrid

The autonomous body Madrid Salud carries out every 4 years a general health survey aimed at the Madrid population. This survey is a tool for collecting information not available in any other source, for the knowledge of the most important health problems of the Madrid population and their determinants, contributing to measure them and study how they are distributed socially and territorially in the city of Madrid. The survey is carried out with a probabilistic sample of people residing in the city and it investigates issues such as the perception of one's own health, the quality of life related to it, the presence of chronic diseases and disability, that of addictions to substances and play and other issues that have to do with lifestyles, the care system and social determinants, with special interest in living and working conditions. It provides very relevant information for the Health Studies of the City of Madrid and its results are of great interest also to analyze the health situation of the population of each municipal district, derived from its analysis the implementation of programs and activities aimed at improving the health of Madrileños and the evaluation of those that are underway.