The European Health Expectancy Monitoring Unit (EHEMU) An overview Jean-Marie Robine 2005
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
EHEMU team INSERM, Montpellier - Jean-Marie Robine, -Isabelle Romieu, -Aurore Clavel University of Leicester - Carol Jagger, - Geraldine Barker IPH, Brussels - Herman van Oyen INED, Paris - Emmanuelle Cambois
Rationale for Health Expectancies Health Expectancies extend the notion of life expectancy to different health dimensions can simultaneously monitor trends in different health dimensions such as chronic morbidity, disability and poor self-rated health allow direct comparison of regions or population subgroups can assess whether we are exchanging longer life for poorer health
Euro-REVES: the foundation of EHEMU The sustained interest in disability-free life expectancy within countries led to a European research programme identifying reasons for the incomparability of European results (Biomed II, ) From this, the development of a coherent set of health expectancies was proposed through the Health Monitoring Programme ( ) The current move to standardised surveys in Europe (ECHP, SILC, and the future European Health Interview Survey) allows this development through EHEMU
Euro-REVES: the foundation of EHEMU The sustained interest in disability-free life expectancy within countries led to a European research programme identifying reasons for the incomparability of European results (Biomed II, ) From this, the development of a coherent set of health expectancies was proposed through the Health Monitoring Programme ( ) The current move to standardised surveys in Europe (ECHP, SILC, and the future European Health Interview Survey) allows this development through EHEMU Euro-reves: A vision for Europe
European Health Expectancy Monitoring Unit (EHEMU) Providing annual comparable values Analysing and interpreting the results Educating about health expectancies
EHEMU components Research Education Dissemination Website and scientific papers
EHEMU Creed Calculation - calculation, analysis and interpretation of current harmonized data (ECHP , EB 2002, SILC 2003+, EHIS 2007) Repository - EHEMU-calculated values - Available information on other studies calculating HE Education - Computation (including web-based) - Interpretation (including web-based) Extension of the network - Especially to new MS Dissemination -Through paper and web-based reports
EHEMU Creed Calculation - Trends in disability-free life expectancy using ECHP data with extrapolation for in relation to the new structural indicator Healthy Life Years (HLY) - Interrelationships between different health dimensions using EB 2002 Repository - EHEMU-calculated values - Available information on other studies calculating HE Education - Computation manual with extension for confidence intervals Extension of the network - Identifying EHEMU partners in all MS (policy and technical) Dissemination - Conception and development of EHEMU website - Country reports
European Health Expectancy Monitoring Unit (EHEMU)