European Commission - Public Health: healthindicators.org

ECHI-2 long list

For each indicator, the list presents:

• The name of the indicator or topic.
• If available, the definition(s), indications on stratification by gender, age, SES or region, and further comments, with reference to the origin of the indicator.
• If avalaible, the type of data source involved. Sometimes this refers to existing datasources, but quite often also, it refers to a preferred means of data collection (e.g. surveys) which has not been realised.
• If available, the international database, HMP project or other source from with the indicator was derived.

Arrangement of the indicators: All indicators are arranged in the ECHI framework, i.e. in the four classes: (1) Demography/socio-economic situation, (2) Health status, (3) Determinants of health, (4) Health systems, and their subdivisions. The agreed division of the class Health systems into ‘health services’ and ‘health promotion’ has not yet been implemented in the ICHI application.

Origin of the indicators: In the list, quite a few indicators are derived from WHO-Euro (HFAdatabase), from OECD (OECD health data) or Eurostat (Variable in New Cronos). Many indicators are included as recommendations of projects run under the Health MonitoringProgramme (HMP).

Status of indicators: Some ‘indicators’ are not really indicators but rather topics for which information is needed but for which a proper definition has not yet been proposed. In some cases, recommendations from HMP projects were presented group-wise, in order to keep the list within reasonable length.

User windows can also be found in the report and the allocation of an indicator to one or more user windows is shown in the firstcolumn (as UW-x). As explained in the main text of the report, user windows are formulated as subsets of indicators, selected from a specific perspective. For a further explanation about user windows see the long list.