1. ANEMOS Expansion and update of existing nutrition monitoring systems 7 th Meeting of the Working Party on Information on Lifestyle and Specific Subpopulations 14 May 2008, Luxembourg Antonia Trichopoulou, MD Hellenic Health Foundation

2. Public Health Executive Agency Programme of Community action in the field of Public Health Call for Proposals 2007 Project number: 100914 Acronym: ANEMOS Strand: 1. Health information (HI 2007) Priority area: 1.1 Developing and coordinating the health information and knowledge system Duration: 24 months Recommended EU contribution: 162 000€ Current status: Contract negotiations stage 7 th Meeting of the Working Party on Information on Lifestyle and Specific Subpopulations 14 May 2008, Luxembourg

3. The ANEMOS Consortium Main partner: Hellenic Health Foundation (HHF-GR) Project leader: Trichopoulou Antonia Associated partners: 1) Statistics Estonia (SE-EE) 2) Lithuanian Institute of Agrarian Economics (LAEI-LT) 3) Faculty of Nutrition and Food Sciences of the University of Porto (FCNAUP-PT) 7 th Meeting of the Working Party on Information on Lifestyle and Specific Subpopulations 14 May 2008, Luxembourg

4. The DAFNE databank: “A simple and cost-effective tool to monitor food patterns across European countries together with their socio-demographic determinants, through the exploitation of the nationally representative household budget surveys.” The DAFNE initiative 7 th Meeting of the Working Party on Information on Lifestyle and Specific Subpopulations 14 May 2008, Luxembourg

5. The DAFNE objectives 1) I ncreasing the understanding of dietary habits and of socio-economic factors shaping them, in countries where such data are limited; 2) I ntegrating regularly updated food and related data into a cost-effective databank which serves as a source of comparable between countries nutrition indicators; 3) P roviding data to tackle inequalities in health that stem from socio-economic disparities in the dietary choices of the populations; 4) I dentifying health challenges Member States may face; 5) E nlarging the already operating DAFNE databank strengthening thus the capacity to plan and assess nutrition strategies and interventions within the enlarged EU. 7 th Meeting of the Working Party on Information on Lifestyle and Specific Subpopulations 14 May 2008, Luxembourg

7. The ANEMOS specific objectives HBS data exploitation from EE 1 and LT 1 and PT 2 Data Integration in the DAFNE databank and the DafneSoft application tool 1 New network participants. 2003 to 2007 data 2 Already network participant. 2005 data

8. The web-based DafneSoft tool is freely available at: http://www.nut.uoa.gr/dafnesoftweb/ and will also be uploaded at HHF’s website (http://www.hhf-greece.gr)http://www.hhf-greece.gr 7 th Meeting of the Working Party on Information on Lifestyle and Specific Subpopulations 14 May 2008, Luxembourg