1 / 10

The European Health Expectancy Monitoring Unit (EHEMU) An overview

The European Health Expectancy Monitoring Unit (EHEMU) An overview. Name of presenter. 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.

elie
Download Presentation

The European Health Expectancy Monitoring Unit (EHEMU) An overview

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. The European Health Expectancy Monitoring Unit (EHEMU) An overview Name of presenter

  2. 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

  3. EHEMU team • INSERM, Montpellier - Jean-Marie Robine - Isabelle Romieu - Aurore Clavel • University of Leicester • - Carol Jagger, • - Geraldine Barker • IPH, Brussels • - Herman van Oyen • INED, Paris • - Emmanuelle Cambois

  4. Rationale for Health Expectancies Health Expectancies • extend the notion of life expectancy to different health dimensions • can simultaneously monitor trends in different health dimensions such as chronic morbidity, disability and poor self-rated health • allow direct comparison of regions or population subgroups • can assess whether we are exchanging longer life for poorer health

  5. Euro-REVES: the foundation of EHEMU • The sustained interest in disability-free life expectancy within countries led to a European research programme identifying reasons for the incomparability of European results (Biomed II, 1995-1997) • From this, the development of a coherent set of health expectancies was proposed through the Health Monitoring Programme (1997-2002) • The current move to standardised surveys in Europe (ECHP, SILC, and the future European Health Interview Survey) allows this development through EHEMU Euro-reves: A vision for Europe

  6. European Health Expectancy Monitoring Unit (EHEMU) • Providing annual comparable values • Analysing and interpreting the results • Educating about health expectancies

  7. EHEMU components Research Education Dissemination Website and scientific papers

  8. EHEMU Creed • Calculation • - calculation, analysis and interpretation of current harmonized data (ECHP 1994-2001, EB 2002, SILC 2003+, EHIS 2007) • Repository • - EHEMU-calculated values • - Available information on other studies calculating HE • Education • - Computation (including web-based) • - Interpretation (including web-based) • Extension of the network • - Especially to new MS • Dissemination • - Through paper and web-based reports

  9. EHEMU workplan for Year 1 • Calculation • -Trends in disability-free life expectancy using ECHP 1994-2001 • data with extrapolation for 2002-3 in relation to the new • structural indicator Healthy Life Years (HLY) - Interrelationships between different health dimensions using EB 2002 • Repository • - EHEMU-calculated values • - Available information on other studies calculating HE • Education • - Computation manual with extension for confidence intervals • Extension of the network • - Identifying EHEMU partners in all MS (policy and technical) • Dissemination • - Conception and development of EHEMU website • - Country reports

  10. European Health Expectancy Monitoring Unit (EHEMU) 2004-2007

More Related