Magnus StenbeckMagnus Stenbeck

• 070 – 16 23 117• Director Database Infrastructure Committee –

Science Research Council Sweden• Centre for Epidemiology, National Board of

Health and Welfare Sweden• Swedish delegate to the Health Information

Committee, European Union

International data on healthInternational data on health

The National Board of Health and Welfare

Magnus Stenbeck

Ingalill Paulsson Lütz

The Centre for EpidemiologyThe Centre for Epidemiology

International reportingInternational reporting• WHO

– Health for all data base (HFA)& Environmental Health Indicators

• OECD – Health data base

• European Union – DG EUROSTAT - Statistical Office of the European Communities– DG SANCO – The Directorate General for 'Health and

Consumers'

• NOMESCO - Nordic Medico Statistical Committee

WHO InternationalWHO International

• The World Health Organization is the United Nations specialized agency for health.

• It was established on 7 April 1948. • WHO's objective, as set out in its Constitution, is

the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health.

• WHO is governed by 192 Member States through the World Health Assembly.

Life expectancy at birth, in years 2004

WHO European Region 74,5 years

<= 82 years

<= 78,4 years

<= 74,8 years

<= 71,2 years

<= 67,6 years

No data

WHO Health For All data baseWHO Health For All data base

• 53 Memberstates in WHO Europe

• Basic demographic and socioeconomic indicators

• Lifestyle- and environment-related indicators

• Mortality, morbidity and disability

• Hospital discharges

• Health care resources, utilization and expenditure

OECD’s missionOECD’s missionTo promote policies designed:

• to achieve sustainable economic growth and employment and rising standards of living in member countries while maintaining financial stability, so contributing to the development of the world economy

• to assist sound economic expansion in member countries and other countries in the process of economic

development • to contribute to growth in world trade on a multilateral,

non-discriminatory basis

(Article 1 of the OECD Convention)

A global outreachA global outreach

OECD Member CountriesCountries/Economies Engaged in Working Relationships with the OECD

OECD:s Health data baseOECD:s Health data base

• Health Status

• Health care utilisation

• Health care resources

• Expenditure on health

• Financing and remuneration

• Social protection• Pharmaceutical market

• Non-medical determinants of health

• Demographic references

• Economic references

EU Memberstates and candidate countries

European health information European health information legislationlegislation

• Valid as from January 2009• Detailed regulation currently under development• Covers information within 5 areas:

– Health status and health determinants– Health care and health care resources– Causes of death– Work related accidents– Work related health problems

EUROSTATEUROSTAT

• Statistical Office of the European Communitiesand European Statistical SystemDatabase: New Cronos

• One European Structural Indicator on health: Healthy Life Years

• Sustainable indicators• Morbidity, mortality, health care

• http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/eurostat/home/

SANCOSANCO

• European Department for Health and Consumer Affairs

• Health Information Committee (HIC)• European Core Health Indicators (ECHI)• One European Structural Indicator: Healthy Life

Years• Sustainable indicators• http://www.euphix.org

European Department for European Department for EmploymentEmployment

• Social Protection Committee• Indicators on

– employment, – pensions, – health and long term care

NOMESCONOMESCO

• Nordic Medico Statistical CommitteeDenmark FinlandIcelandNorwaySwedentogether with Grönland, Färöarna and Åland

• Data on Organization of health services, Population and fertility, Morbidity, medical treatment, accidents and medicine, Mortality, Reosurces in health care

http://nomesco-eng.nom-nos.dk/ • Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) --

Statistical cooperation in some fields

Useful linksUseful links

• http://www.euro.who.int/• http://www.oecd.org• http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/

portal/eurostat/home/ • http://nomesco-eng.nom-nos.dk/