User Windows are subsets of indicators, which can be selected from the perspective of a specific user’s interest.

Examples of such user’s perspective are: (i) specific areas of health policy interest (prevention oriented, services oriented, intersectoral policies); (ii) specific thematic topics such as age groups, health inequalities; (iii) specific disease groups with their determinants and costs, et cetera. For more information, see:

Design for a set of European Community health indicators, final report by the ECHI project, 2001.

The user windows represented in the present release include:

1.     Two hypothetical examples of user windows for which another hierarchical tree than the ECHI structure has been constructed.

2.     Nine examples of user windows which follow the ECHI conceptual structure. Of these:

·         Two represent our own selection, using indicators from all sources (WHO, OECD, Eurostat, ECHI): diabetes and health inequalities;

·         Two represent the ECHI shortlist and the ECHI long list. The latter is identical to the representation of all indicators under the heading ECHI.

·         Five represent the sets of indicators as they were proposed by specific projects under the Health Monitoring Program: perinatal health, musculoskeletal disorders, workplace health, nutrition, and mental Health. 

The menu allows you to recall an existing user window.