1. Working Group on Public Health Statistics Luxembourg, 26 November 2015
Item 2.1: Presentations by other European Commission's services using Health statistics
DG SANTE
Fabienne Lefebvre, Health Information and Scientific Committee Unit (SANTE.C2)

2. Mission letter by President Juncker (1 November 2014) to Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis, in charge of Health and Food Safety
Developing expertise on performance assessments of health systems, drawing lessons from recent experience, and from EU- funded research projects to build up country-specific and cross- country knowledge which can inform policies at national and European level.

3. More health reporting to come
Country analysis State of health in the European Union: every second year joint OECD / European Commission health reporting (WP2015) WP 2016 still under development

4. The European Core Health Indicators (ECHI)
In 2012, a Joint Action between the Commission and the Member States resulted in a shortlist of 88 health indicators, classified by policy area (revision under the BRIDGE-HEALTH project).
Most of the indicators are implemented with Eurostat data:
Causes of death statistics, EHIS, Health care non-expenditure and expenditure statistics, Minimum European Health Module (MEHM) of the EU-SILC, population statistics…
For some indicators, other international sources are used.

5. Visualisation tool for ECHI indicators
The ECHI Data Tool
Visualisation tool for ECHI indicators
New version online since 12 November 2015, presented in the last Expert Group on Health Information (EGHI)
Main improvements: possibility to select more than one indicator and a clear distinction between ECHI indicators and other health indicators

7. EU HEALTH INFORMATION INITIATIVE – STATE OF PLAY
Proposal to put the European health indicators on a formal footing Large consultation along the process: Expert Group on Health Information (EGHI), Commission services through an Impact Assessment Steering Group, stakeholders community, OECD, WHO…

8. Thank you for your attention and your feedback on the new ECHI Data Tool!