European Commission - Public Health: healthindicators.org

International organisations

Links to websites of international organisations working with indicators, developing indicators and/or providing indicator data:

• DG SANCO website: indicators
• EC Health Portal health indicators
• OECD Health data and indicators
• Eurostat
• European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA)
• European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)
• EURO-HIV
• European Environment Agency indicators by theme

Indicator sets

Next to the ECHI shortlist several other comprehensive indicator sets covering the field of public health, or having overlap with the public health field, are in use. Below the sets that overlap with the ECHI shortlist are listed:

• WHO-HFA
• Social Protection Committee, indicators on Social Protection and Social Inclusion on the Eurostat website
• OECD Health Care Quality Indicators
• EU Sustainable Development Indicators
• EU Structural Indicators

DG SANCO funded projects

During the past 5 years a list of projects funded by DG SANCO, relevant for European public health monitoring, has been maintained by ECHIM. Relevant for European public health monitoring means working on indicator development and/or data collection for major public health topics. This list of projects, which is named the ECHIM comprehensive list. The list has been updated until 2008 (i.e. projects funded in 2008).