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Progress of Task Force on Health Expectancies (TF-HE)

Progress of Task Force on Health Expectancies (TF-HE). Carol Jagger Jean-Marie Robine. Joint meeting of the Networks of CA and WPL Jan 30-31 2007. Historical development of TF-HE. 1st meeting 25 January 2005 2nd meeting 8 June 2006 3rd meeting 12 December 2006

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Progress of Task Force on Health Expectancies (TF-HE)

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  1. Progress of Task Force on Health Expectancies (TF-HE) Carol Jagger Jean-Marie Robine Joint meeting of the Networks of CA and WPL Jan 30-31 2007

  2. Historical development of TF-HE • 1st meeting 25 January 2005 • 2nd meeting 8 June 2006 • 3rd meeting 12 December 2006 • Election of lead (JM Robine) and deputy (C Jagger) • Secretariat provided by EHEMU project to June 2007 and EHLEIS project from July 2007 • Subsequent meetings biannually Task Force on Health Expectancies

  3. Mandate of TF-HE • Within the Public Health Programme to assure the quality of the whole process of Healthy Life Years (HLY) • HLY is one of a set of Structural Indicators developed in 2005 to provide the objective assessment of progress made towards the Lisbon Strategy. HLY (a disability-free life expectancy) • measures the number of remaining years that a person of a certain age should live without disability • introduces the concept of quality of life • in order to increase HLY and reduce gaps between population groups Task Force on Health Expectancies

  4. SANCO drives development and uses EU Public Health Programme TF-HE assures quality of the whole Eurostat collects required data and annually computes Healthy Life Years Structural Indicator - HLY- Commission Services use in policy Countries use it nationally Task Force on Health Expectancies

  5. Operationalisation of the mandate Quality is assured by defining and disseminating good practice including: • Data acquisition • Calculation of HLY • Understanding of its meaning including limitations • Use by Commission Services and Countries • Anticipating short and long term developments to improve • quality (objective v subjective measures: HES v HIS) • relevance (decomposition by population subgroups or cause) • Coordinating current activities, early development (HLY by SES, new survey) and research (decomposition by cause, objective measures from HES, …) Task Force on Health Expectancies

  6. Resources of TF-HE • Public Health projects related to HLY • TF members (one member per country, SANCO, Eurostat) Task Force on Health Expectancies

  7. Projects within the TF-HE • European Health Expectancy Monitoring Unit (EHEMU) • European Policy Information Research on Mental Disorders (EPREMED) • European Health and Life Expectancy Information System (EHLEIS) Task Force on Health Expectancies

  8. Projects within the TF-HE • European Health Expectancy Monitoring Unit (EHEMU) • European Policy Information Research on Mental Disorders (EPREMED) • Workpackage on data synthesis including mental health expectancy • European Health and Life Expectancy Information System (EHLEIS) • Monitor and explore gender gaps and inequalities in health expectancies Task Force on Health Expectancies

  9. Format of TF-HE meetings Three sections • Section 1 – Update on HLY • New developments (SANCO) • Data availability and new calculations (Eurostat) • Use by the Commission (other DGs) • Section 2 - Health expectancies in MS • Presentations from 3 MS with varying national experience • Section 3 – Report from TF • Update of relevant projects supporting HLY (e.g. EHEMU, EHLEIS, EPREMED, ….) Task Force on Health Expectancies

  10. HLY in the Lisbon Strategy EUROSTAT Official HLY estimates HLY in the Public Health Programme SANCO HLY in other EU programmes TF-HE Website Links to: Working parties mutual links Associated projects EHEMU, EPREMED, EHLEIS,… Task Force on Health Expectancies

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