Eugloreh 2007

EU Public Health Programme Project
Global Report on the Health Status in the European Union

ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITA'
Via Regina Elena 299 - Rome - 20 March 2009

The Project
Introduction and general objective:
The general objective of the project is the production of a "Report on Health in the European Union" (hereinafter mentioned as the Report) extending from 1998 till the most recently available data. This Report is intended to be a reference publication providing general information on health status of the European population and on associated time-trends. Moreover, the Report is also intended to provide a valuable tool for the European Commission, national policy makers and other stakeholders to monitor impacts of main health interventions and policies. This project intends to be respectful of the data gathering systems existing at national level or in other contexts and there is no implication that such systems should be harmonized or modified. Selection of indicators and data sources will be preferentially based on the work of current and past EC funded projects. This project aims at developing and applying a consensus methodology and mechanism. The Ministries of Health of the EU Member States, EFTA and Candidate Countries, Community Institutions, International Organizations and selected stakeholders will be involved in its preparation. The project will carry out an evaluation of the Report as to its capacity to fulfil the expectations and needs of different categories of readers.
Contents, objectives and format of the Report:
The format, contents and objectives of the Report will be defined through a consensus meeting of the associated partners, Community Institutions and International Organizations (such as EUROSTAT, ECDC and WHO) and consultation with the coordinating and advisory structures of the Community health information and knowledge system. The present project proposal is based on a Table of Contents, which should however be considered provisional pending its adoption in the first meeting of the partners.
Production of the Report:
Based on the agreement reached among the partners, after consulting potential contributors (chosen as far as possible among the experts of the EUHIKS Working Parties and other SANCO advisory bodies), Organizations responsible for international databases and other stakeholders, available information and data are collated, elaborated, communicated and made available section by section to the partners and authors. Structured data will be preferentially taken from international databases; the partners and contributors may provide additional relevant information and documents which are in their knowledge. The contributors will analyse the available information and data according to predefined guidelines which ensure a systematic treatment of the aspects of major relevance to
public health and a harmonized treatment of subjects all throughout the Report. and On the basis of the guidelines, the contributors will prepare drafts of the Report chapters or sections which will be submitted to a refereeing process. The different Report chapters or sections will be completed and integrated into a final draft Report, which will be circulated through the network and approved in an ad hoc Conference with the participation of all network members. The draft full Report will be made available to other selected stakeholders to consider their comments before the finalization of the Report.
Dissemination of the Report:
The Report in English and the Executive Summary in at least 20 European languages will be produced in hypertext format and published in the web sites of the project and the European Commission. Terms present in all tabulated data and plots will make up a glossary in at least 20 European languages. Moreover, copies of the Report and its Executive Summary will be published in CD-rom and distributed to the Commission bodies, EU Member States, EFTA and Candidate Countries and International Organizations.
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
10:30 - Registration
11:00 - Morning Session
Chair: L. Vittozzi and E. Goebel
11:00 - Welcome and key note address (E. Garaci)
11.15 - Policy making in the health sector: the importance of data on the health status of the population and of other information (F. Oleari)
11:30 - The policy of the European Union in monitoring the health status of the European population (E. Goebel)
11:45 - The "Report on the status of health in the EU": main features and achievements (V. Silano)
12:15 - Health in the EU; the importance of the Report from a broader European health perspective (N. Menabde)
12.30 - The value of the "Report on the status of health in the EU" from the Member State perspectives (Paulo Ferrinho, Gérard Badeyan )
13:00 - Lunch Break
14:00 - Afternoon session
Chair: V. Silano
14:00 - Round Table: Health priorities and health strategy in the EU (A. Nanda, J. Figueras, M. Serafini, M. Morrone)
15.00 - General discussion
16.00 - End of the Conference
The official language of the Conference is English. No simultaneous translation is available.
SPEAKERS and CHAIRPERSONS
Gérard Badeyan, High Council of Public Health, Directorate General for Health, Paris - France
Paulo Ferrinho, Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, New University of Lisbon, Lisbon -
Portugal
Josep Figueras, Director, WHO European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, Brussels -
Belgium
Enrico Garaci, President, Italian National Institute for Health (ISS), Rome -Italy
Elvira Goebel, DG Health and Consumers, European Commission, Luxembourg
Nata Menabde, Deputy Regional Director, WHO Regional Office for Europe)
Aldo Morrone, Italian National Institute for the Health of Migrant Populations (INMP), Rome -
Italy
Arun Nanda, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm - Sweden
Fabrizio Oleari, Director General for Prevention, Italian Ministry of Labour, Health and Social
Affairs, Rome - Italy)
Marco Serafini, European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, Lisbon -Portugal
Vittorio Silano, EUGLOREH project coordinator, Italian National Institute for the Health of
Migrant Populations (INMP), Rome - Italy
Luciano Vittozzi, EUGLOREH project manager, Italian National Centre for Rare Diseases (ISSCNMR),
Rome - Italy