1. News from European Health Interview Survey (EHIS)
Agenda point 11
Lucian Agafitei
ESTAT Unit F-4
14-15 March 2018
Working Group "European Statistical Data Support"

2. Context EHIS wave 1 (2006-2009) EHIS wave 2 (2013-2015)
No legal basis
Limited participation (around 17 MS)
Dissemination limited to few topics with good comparability
EHIS wave 2 ( )
Legal basis
EU MS, NO, IS and TR
Dissemination of a wide range of indicators
EHIS wave 3 ( )

3. EHIS data in Eurobase New datatree for EHIS wave 2 data
EHIS wave 1 -> Historical data (temporary solution)

4. Dissemination of EHIS wave 2 data
Current situation
Further planned
Geo. coverage
EU 28 + IS, NO, TR
Other non EU countries
Time dimension
2014 (for dissemination purposes)
Joint dissemination with wave 1 (whenever possible)
Breakdowns
Age
Sex
Education/income/degree of urbanization
Labour status
Activity limitation
Citizenship
Country of birth
Standardisation No
Age standardised

5. Datasets disseminated in Eurobase (i)
Health status
Current depressive symptoms
Severity of current depressive symptoms
Severity of bodily pain
Physical and sensory functional limitations
Difficulties in personal care activities
Difficulties in household activities
Reporting a chronic disease, by disease
Reporting an accident resulting in injury
Medical intervention for an accident resulting in injury
Absence from work due to personal health problems

6. Datasets disseminated in Eurobase (ii)
Health care
Self-reported time elapsed since last visit to a medical professional
Self-reported consultations of a medical professional
Self-reported consultation of mental healthcare or rehabilitative care professionals
Self-reported vaccination against influenza
Self-reported screening of cardiovascular diseases and diabetes risks
Self-reported last breast examination by X-ray among women
Self-reported last cervical smear test among women
Self-reported last colorectal cancer screening test
Self-reported use of prescribed medicines
Self-reported use of non-prescribed medicines
Self-reported use of home care services
Self-reported unmet needs for health care by specific reasons
Self-reported unmet needs for specific health care-related services due to financial reasons

7. Datasets disseminated in Eurobase (iii)
Health determinants
Body mass index
Effort involved in performing work-related physical activity
Performing (non-work-related) physical activities
Time spent on health-enhancing (non-work-related) aerobic physical activity
Performing health-enhancing physical activity
Daily consumption of fruit and vegetables
Frequency of fruit and vegetables consumption
Smoking of tobacco products
Daily smokers of cigarettes
Daily exposure to tobacco smoke indoors
Frequency of alcohol consumption
Frequency of heavy episodic drinking
Overall perceived social support
Persons providing informal care or assistance at least once a week

8. Assessment of comparability of data between EHIS waves 1 and 2
Aim: having a joint dissemination of both waves
Status: ongoing (via contract)
Result: revised data tree
But request from the Eurobase team adding the survey year in the datasets titles
9-10 February 2017
Technical Group HIS Statistics

9. Additional dissemination on the Eurostat website and other platforms
News releases:
14/10/2016: Fruit and vegetables consumption
20/10/2016: Body mass index
7/12/2016: Tobacco consumption
Updated "news" section that offers a variety of news items
Preventive services (Febr. 2017)
Depression (March 2017)
Physical activity (March 2017)
Medicine use (April 2017)
Diabetes (Nov. 2017)
Twitter/Facebook: Infographics on some preventive services (cancer screening) for the World Cancer Day

10. Use of the EHIS results in Statistics Explained articles
Updating statistical articles of the online publication Health in the European Union – facts and figures
Revision of existing articles and creation of new articles (for instance on consumption of fruit and vegetables, health enhancing physical activity, alcohol consumption)

11. Use of the EHIS results in publications

12. Thank you for your attention