European Health Examination Survey

General description

1st EHES Training Seminar, 11-12 February 2010, Rome

What is a health examination survey

(HES)?• A population survey, which includes

both a questionnaire and physical measurements

• Based on a random sample of the general population

• For many health indicators, the most reliable data source

• Complementary to HIS and administrative registers

What is EHES?

• Standardized national HESs in the adult population of the EEA countries

• Complementary to EHIS• Being set up under EU’s Health

Programme 2008-2013• Based on recommendations of the

FEHES Project (2006-2008)

Why EHES?

• To collect comparable, high quality data on health of the European adult population

• To provide reliable and comparable data for planning and evaluation of health policies and health promotion activities, and research• Within the countries• At European level

Setting up EHESPhase I Phase II

Setting up EHES RC

Manual for all EU and EEA/EFTA countries

Training programme

Planning and preparing a national HES, including a pilot survey, in 14 countries

Full-size HES in the pilot countries

Planning, preparing and conducting a national HES in other countries

Gradual development to a sustainable EHES system

Funding through a Tender and Joint Action for 2 years in 2009-2011

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The EHES Reference Centre (EHES RC)

Established jointly by• National Institute for Health and

Welfare (THL), Helsinki, Finland• Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS),

Rome, Italy• Statistics Norway (SSB), Oslo,

Norway

Tasks for EHES Reference Centre

• EHES manuals• The EHES Manual• National Manuals

• Training programme• Training seminars• Training materials

• Quality control• Coordination of external

quality control • Preparation of

guidelines for internal quality control

• Blood sample handling and storage protocols

• Development of principles and rules for data sharing

• Development of data transfer and management system

• Development of reporting system• Basic reports

• Evaluation of the pilot surveys

• Final conference

PersonnelKari Kuulasmaa Hanna Tolonen

Sanna Ahonen

Johan Heldal

Susie Cooper

Susanna Conti

Mark Kanieff

Johanna Mäki-Opas Jari Kirsilä

Ari Haukijärvi

Jouko Sundvall

Päivikki Koponen

Georg Alfthan

THL, Finland ISS, Italy

SSB, Norway

Joint Action for piloting EHES

• Supports the national activities needed to build the capacity for organizing HES in 14 countries

Finland

Germany

Netherlands

Poland

Czech RepublicSlovakia

Hungary

Greece

ItalyMalta

Spain

Portugal

UK/England

Norway

Tasks of the Joint Action

• Preparation of national HES plans• Preparation of sampling descriptions• Completing field work for the pilot• Transferring the pilot HES data to the

EHES RC• Quality assessment of the pilot HES

data• Preparation of the national

dissemination and the reporting plan