The indicator for selected communicable diseases consists of two indicators:
i) “Incidence of selected communicable diseases”, which comprises of the diseases of the highest incidence and/or disease burden, minimally Chlamydia, Hepatitis C and Tuberculosis.
ii) “Incidence of vaccine-preventable diseases”, which comprises of a set of vaccinepreventable diseases with variable coverage of vaccination, minimally Pertussis, Measles and Hepatitis B.
The incidence of a disease per year is calculated as the total number of reported cases of the disease in a specific year divided by the population of the country in question in the same year, expressed per 100 000 population.
Communicable diseases cause, or have the potential to cause, significant disease burden (morbidity and/or mortality). They are also diseases for which effective preventive measures are available with a protective health gain.
They are also important indicators to monitor the effectiveness of childhood vaccination programmes. The incidence of vaccine-preventable diseases (pertussis, measles, hepatitis B) is included in the initial indicators of the OECD health care quality project.
- The data will be available through the surveillance systems covered by ECDC (the Joint DG SANCO / Eurostat Questionnaire for The First European Communicable Disease Epidemiological Report produced by the ECDC, annually),
- except for tuberculosis for which the EuroTB Centre is the provider.
A recent SANCO proposal extends the above list considerably to include 30 communivbe diseases altogether, ie those that The Commission Decision 2002/253/EC of 19 March 2002 (and subsequent modifications) lays down the compulsory case definitions for reporting these communicable diseases to the Community network
Data for all those 30 indiator is available through the surveillance systems covered by ECDC, but is it wise and practical to include all 30?
Data Presentations
More indicator information will follow in due time.
Definition of indicator
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What the indicator is meant to measure. If not unambiguous, all acceptable alternatives are to be listed in numbered preference order. The final decision on preference order/numbering is to be made by ECHIM coregroup.
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How to calculate the indicator (method, numerator, denominator, etc), in the same preference order as above if more than one alternative.
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Why the indicator is measured the chosen way (prevalence, incidence, mortality, absolute numbers etc.)? Also reasons for the preferred definition and calculation details can be included here.
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Should the indicator be stratified by e.g. age, gender, socio-economic status and area
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The type of data source; in the same preference order as above (typically either register data or HIS/HES).
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Why is this indicator important, from the public health point of view. (For example: size or dynamics of the problem/issue, evidence of the relevance of the issue in public health terms (for determinants) or evidence of intervention effectiveness (for prevention or care issues)).
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The recommended data source (e.g. Eurostat, OECD, WHO, national registers or HIS/HES, project databases etc.), in the same preference order as above; some notes on the quality and availability of the data for the indicator. Eventually, also information on the availability in coutries, as derived from the ECHIM survey.
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References to original publications, websites, EHIS-question/naire, PHP projects, etc.
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What should be done to improve and complete this sheet. Eventually, this cell should be blank.
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