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EHEMU PROGRAMME FOR 2007
Herman Van Oyen and Aurore Clavel
Purpose of EHEMU
• To provide annual comparable health expectancy estimates for
all European Union countries, in association with Eurostat
• To analyse and interpret the results
• To educate policy makers, politicians and the public in health
expectancy as an indicator of population health
European Health Expectancy Monitoring Unit
(EHEMU)
• Providing annual comparable values
• Analysing and interpreting the results
• Educating about health expectancies
Remaining work
Four remaining tasks
1. Web site
2. Calculations from SILC data
3. Country reports
4. Scientific papers
Web site
• New primary data
SILC 2005 as soon as available
Version 2
End of January 2007
• New meta data
- bibliography
- glossary
- interpreting health expectancy
Version 3
End of May 2007
SILC data
• How is your health in
general ?
1. Very Good
2. Good
3. Fair
4. Bad
5. Very Bad
=> LE in good perceived health
• Do you have any long-standing illness or health problem?
1. Yes
=> LE without chronic morbidity
2. No
• For at least the last 6 months have you been limited in activities
people
usually do, because of a health problem?
1. Yes, strongly limited
2. Yes, limited
=> LE without activity limitation (HLY)
3. Not limited
Country reports
Consultation about Issue 0
• Issue 0 of the Country Reports was prepared for each country (15
of the ECHP) and sent with a questionnaire to the:
• Public Health network
• Expert network
• Questionnaire had open ended questions and covered the structure,
format and layout, data sources, whether results were comparable
to those from national series
• Replies received from 12 Public Health and 17 Experts
• Very positive feedback but disliked:
• Eurobarometer
• composite indicator from Eurobarometer
Country reports
Future issues
• Conserve the same structure
Four A4 pages on folded A3
• Front
– HE background
• Back
– Overall EU values
• Middle
– Left – trends over time
– Right – trade-off between HE
measures
• Change the data used
Trends
Issue 0
Issue 1
Furthers Issue
ECHP
ECHP + SILC
SILC
SILC
EHIS
Measures Eurobarometer
 Issue 1 available for 25 countries
at the end of May 2007
Scientific papers
• Paper based on the SHARE report
• Estimates of HLY in Europe using SILC data
• Generic indicator : conceptual
• Comparisons of different surveys