European Health Risk Monitoring Project

European Health Risk Monitoring (EHRM) Project was part of the European Commission's (EC) Health Monitoring Programme (HMP). EHRM contributed to the European community health monitoring system by planning chronic disease risk factor indicators and mechanisms for standardized national population risk factor surveys. Such surveys will in member countries gather original core information on major chronic disease risk factors, related behaviours and determinants, in order to serve and evaluate disease prevention and health promotion efforts in the countries and on European level.

The major chronic diseases concerned are cardiovascular diseases, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cancers and diabetes. Mental health, accidents and environmental and occupational diseases are also major public health problems, but were outside the scope of this Project. Furthermore, nutrition and physical activity were not considered because they were dealt with by other projects of the HMP.

The project received funding from the EC.