1. The EHLEIS project of the European health expectancy monitoring unit 2oo7-2o1o European health expectancy monitoring unit

2. Initial objectives 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: the “European health expectancy monitoring unit”

3. Creation of a website to make all information accessible Ehemu “kick off projects” Ways in which these objectives have been fulfilled to date:

4. Ehemu “kick off projects”

5. Creation of a website to make all information accessible Ehemu “kick off projects” Ways in which these objectives have been fulfilled to date: Production of pedagogical documents: country reports, interpreting guide, calculation guide…

6. Ehemu “kick off projects”

7. Creation of an interactive database to compute life and health expectancies for the European countries, using European surveys Ehemu “kick off projects” Different projects conducted so far to fulfil these objectives: Creation of a website to make all information accessible Production of pedagogical documents: country reports, interpreting guide, calculation guide…

8. Ehemu “kick off projects”

9. Different projects conducted so far to fulfil these objectives: Building networks of resource-persons from each MS: network of policy makers / network of DFLE expert Creation of an interactive database to compute life and health expectancies for the European countries, using European surveys Creation of a website to make all information accessible Production of pedagogical documents: country reports, interpreting guide, calculation guide…

10. EHLEIS objectives: Continue the Ehemu « basic » activities upkeep of the website and Information System Produce future issues of the country reports for each of the MS Provide scientific resources to the TF-HE Develop data analysis using the Information system resources insights into gender gaps in HE trade-offs between health dimensions through scientific reports Develop new instruments to analyse patterns and trends Decomposition techniques to assess contributions to differences in HE Education Organise a training workshop in HE Organise a European Health Expectancy conference EHLEIS: the new project (2007-2010) (EU Grant agreement n° 2006109)

11. EHLEIS: the new project The participants to the projects

12. EHLEIS: the new project Resources : Team of experts responsible for the development of the different WP Ehemu website Networks of collaborators from the EU-25 MS Expected results: New HE estimates from SILC and EHIS more readily-accesible Basic information on trends in HLY in the EU-25 New insights on health inequalities between the EU-25 New tools for analysis using decomposition techniques Better understanding of cultural differences in health Better trained public health professionals Exchange of information between producers and policy users of health indicators … to be continued !