EHEMU PROGRAMME FOR 2007
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EHEMU PROGRAMME FOR 2007 Herman Van Oyen and Aurore Clavel
Purpose of EHEMU • To provide annual comparable health expectancy estimates for • all European Union countries, in association with Eurostat • To analyse and interpret the results • To educate policy makers, politicians and the public in health • expectancy as an indicator of population health
European Health Expectancy Monitoring Unit (EHEMU) • Providing annual comparable values • Analysing and interpreting the results • Educating about health expectancies
Remaining work Four remaining tasks • Web site • Calculations from SILC data • Country reports • Scientific papers
Web site • New primary data Version 2 End of January 2007 SILC 2005 as soon as available • New meta data • bibliography • glossary • interpreting health expectancy Version 3 End of May 2007
SILC data • How is your health in general ?1. Very Good2. Good3. Fair4. Bad5. Very Bad => LE in good perceived health • Do you have any long-standing illness or health problem?1. Yes2. No => LE without chronic morbidity • For at least the last 6 months have you been limited in activities people • usually do, because of a health problem? 1. Yes, strongly limited2. Yes, limited3. Not limited => LE without activity limitation (HLY)
Country reports Consultation about Issue 0 • Issue 0 of the Country Reports was prepared for each country (15 of the ECHP) and sent with a questionnaire to the: • Public Health network • Expert network • Questionnaire had open ended questions and covered the structure, format and layout, data sources, whether results were comparable to those from national series • Replies received from 12 Public Health and 17 Experts • Very positive feedback but disliked: • Eurobarometer • composite indicator from Eurobarometer
Country reports Future issues • Conserve the same structure Four A4 pages on folded A3 • Front • HE background • Back • Overall EU values • Middle • Left – trends over time • Right – trade-off between HE measures • Change the data used • Issue 1 available for 25 countries at the end of May 2007
Scientific papers • Paper based on the SHARE report • Estimates of HLY in Europe using SILC data • Generic indicator : conceptual • Comparisons of different surveys