Country reports: Rationale and user views Carole Jagger

Purpose of the Country Reports To provide results of trends and trade-offs for each MS in a standardised format eaily readable without ranking countries To provide overall values for all the EU To provide a simple explanation of HE issues including interpretation

Format Four A4 pages on folded A3 Front HE background

What is HE HE scenarios Calculating HE Data sources Index of report

Format Four A4 pages on folded A3 Front HE background Back Overall EU values

LE trends by gender Contact details DFLE trends by gender

Format Four A4 pages on folded A3 Front HE background Back Overall EU values Middle Left – trends over time Right – trade-off between HE measures

LE and DFLE trends for women Key results LE and DFLE trends for men

HE using different measures – trade-offs Other national results Key results

Data sources Issue 0 ECHP for trends Eurobarometer for different measures – trade-offs

Consultation Issue 0 of the Country Reports was prepared for each country and sent with a questionnaire to: 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: use of Eurobarometer Use of compositie indicator from Eurobarometer

Future Country Reports Issue 0 ECHP for trends Eurobarometer for different measures – trade-offs Issue 1 ECHP for trends SILC (SHARE) for different measures – trade-offs Further issues SILC for trends and trade-offs EHIS (better comparability across countries)

UK briefing for Ministers