The Study of Health in Pomerania

Overview
Acronym
SHIP
Type of information
Population data
URL of the data source
https://www.fvcm.med.uni-greifswald.de/index_engl.html
Description

The Study of Health in Pomerania (SHIP) is a population-based epidemiological project consisting of three independent cohorts (SHIP-START, SHIP-TREND, and SHIP-NEXT).

The SHIP project has two main objectives:

  1. to assess prevalence and incidence of common risk factors, subclinical disorders, and clinical diseases; and
  2. to investigate the complex associations among risk factors, subclinical disorders, clinical diseases, and the consequences of diseases.

A particular characteristic of SHIP is that it does not focus on a selected disease; it rather attempts to describe health-related conditions with the widest possible focus using highly innovative non-invasive methods. Important medical areas of research include cardiovascular diseases, diabetes mellitus, liver and biliary tract diseases, neurological diseases, thyroid diseases, dental diseases, lung diseases, addiction, and risk behaviour.

Funding

SHIP is part of the Community Medicine Research Network of the University Medicine Greifswald, supported by the German Federal State of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania. Previous and/or current data collection and analyses are funded by the following institutions: German Federal Ministry of Education and Research; German Federal Ministry of Nutrition, Agriculture and Consumer?s Safety; German Research Foundation; German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK); German Centre for Diabetes Research (DZD); German Asthma and COPD Network; European Commission (Horizon 2020 programme); Leibniz Society; Siemens AG, Health Care Sector (Erlangen, Germany); Beiersdorf AG (Hamburg, Germany); Data Input GmbH (Darmstadt, Germany); GABA International AG (Therwil, Switzerland); DETAX GmbH & Co. KG (Ettlingen, Germany); Mecklenburg-Vorpommersche Gesellschaft für Zahn-, Mund- und Kieferheilkunde an den Universitäten Greifswald und Rostock e. V.; Imedos Systems (Jena, Germany); Heinen & Löwenstein (Bad Ems, Germany); and InterSystems Corporation (Cambridge, MA, USA).

Free keywords
Disease incidence
Cardiovacular disease
Disease prevalence
Risk factors
Medical data
medical imaging
Topics
Health systems » Health resources and activities » Care utilisation » Long-term care;
Determinants of health;
Health status
Country(ies):
GEO coverage
Europe
Target Population
General population
Age range
From 20 years to 79 years
Sex
Both
Data Collection Period
From 01 October 1997 - Ongoing
Language(s)
English
Updating Periodicity
Other
Enter your value for Periodicity
In the SHIP-START cohort, five examination-waves completed, SHIP-START-0 (1997-2001), SHIP-START-1 (2002 -2006), SHIP-START-2 (2008-2012), SHIP-START-3 (2014-2016).In SHIP-TREND, the baseline (2008-2012) and the first follow-up are completed.
Personal Identifier
Patient identifier
Level of aggregation
Individual
Linkage possible
No
Data Owner(s)
University Medicine Greifswald
Contact name
Marleen Lemke
Contact e-mail
Marleen.Lemke@med.uni-greifswald.de
Contact phone number
03834 867541
Contact info (address)

Walther Rathenau 48 Greifswald Germany

Updated on 31 March 2023