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Support provided by EHES Reference Centre. Hanna Tolonen Susanna Conti Johan Heldal. EHES JA Kick-off meeting, 21 January 2010, Luxembourg. EHES RC. Established jointly by National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Finland Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), Italy
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Support provided by EHES Reference Centre Hanna Tolonen Susanna Conti Johan Heldal EHES JA Kick-off meeting, 21 January 2010, Luxembourg
EHES RC • Established jointly by • National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Finland • Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), Italy • Statistics Norway (SSB), Norway
Personnel THL, Finland ISS, Italy Kari Kuulasmaa Hanna Tolonen Susanna Conti Sanna Ahonen Päivikki Koponen Mark Kanieff Jouko Sundvall Georg Alfthan Susie Cooper Ari Haukijärvi Johanna Mäki-Opas Jari Kirsilä Johan Heldal SSB, Norway
Tasks of the EHES RC (1/3) • Development and publication of the EHES Manual • Assessment of available standards for suggested additional measurements • Providing professional support to the countries planning a national HES • Developing the training programme for the EHES system, preparing training material and organizing international training seminars
Tasks of the EHES RC (2/3) • Coordinating external quality control and preparing guidelines for and monitoring of internal quality control • Developing principles and rules for sharing individual-level HES data • Establishing a data transfer and management system • Planning standardized blood sample storage protocols
Tasks of the EHES RC (3/3) • Developing a system for rapid reporting of the basic survey results • Performing a risk assessment for the implementation and coordination of the pilot EHES • Preparing national manuals together with the national authorities
Professional support • Review of the national • HES plans • Dissemination plans • Assistance for • Sampling issues (SSB, Norway) • Legal, ethical and data confidentiality issues (ISS, Italy) • Defining the national HES budget