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Data on well-being: Good to see our work from a helicopter perspective

Partnership aims to help municipalities improve prevention using their own data. Head of municipal health visiting services welcomes the initiative: “It will be a great help.”

With better use of local data, municipal services such as health visiting can provide better and more targeted prevention for citizens.

This is the view of Tina Pohle, Head of Health Visiting Services in Faaborg-Midtfyn Municipality.

She is involved in developing well-being initiatives within the Partnership for Children’s and Young People’s Well-being in Faaborg-Midtfyn Municipality, and she also took part in the initial mapping of local well-being challenges.

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Strategic use of data

Among other things, the partnership will develop methods for using municipal data both for mapping and for developing local solutions. And this is important work, according to Tina Pohle:

“I believe it will be a great help in many municipalities if we can become better at extracting knowledge and insights from our own data and records. It will allow us to be more strategic, target areas where the need is greatest, and provide the support that is required.”

She believes that with increased use of data, she can, for example, become better at identifying trends across year groups or within specific local areas and present proposals to the political level on where action should be taken.

“I am convinced that the data we, for example, report to BørneUngeLiv (a nationwide well-being survey, ed.), can be used much more strategically than we do today.”

Det vil give os mulighed for at være mere strategiske og ramme der, hvor behovet er størst, og give den hjælp, der er brug for.
Tina Pohle, leder af sundhedsplejen, Faaborg-Midtfyn Kommune

New perspectives

The ambition to draw more knowledge from their data has also given her new perspectives on her own and her colleagues’ work:

“An important part of our work is to monitor whether there are children showing signs of illness or poor well-being, and to guide families on healthy lifestyles. But that can sometimes result in a rather individual-focused view of health. When we instead try to look at it from a helicopter perspective, it can give us a different outlook – and I think that’s a good thing.”

Tina Pohle is the Head of Health Visiting Services in Faaborg-Midtfyn Municipality

Local sleep challenges

Tina Pohle is particularly concerned with how children’s and young people’s sleep habits affect their health and well-being.

Healthy sleep habits have a preventive effect in relation to a range of mental health challenges, such as anxiety, stress, and depression, and can also help prevent the development of high weight.

A review of local data has shown that young people in Faaborg-Midtfyn Municipality are experiencing increasing sleep-related challenges.

Sleep has therefore been selected as one of three areas where the Partnership for Children’s and Young People’s Well-being in Faaborg-Midtfyn Municipality will take action.

The other two are increased participation in leisure communities and early, coordinated intervention against poor well-being, with a focus on school refusal.

“Here’s how we did it”

Tina Pohle has been given a central role in developing the sleep initiatives. She hopes that this work, too, can benefit other municipalities:

“Imagine if we here in the municipality can crack the code on how to get children and young people to sleep more, so we can say: ‘Here’s how we did it.’ That would be fantastic.”


The work on developing the sleep initiatives will begin during the spring of 2026.
 

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