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Workshop on Health Examination Surveys9-11 April 2008Luxembourg |
To build the bridge from the need of standardized national health examination surveys (HESs) in the European countries to the implementation of such surveys.
A health examination survey (HES) is a population based survey were the measurements go beyond the questionnaire based data (interview or self-administration), such as blood pressure, blood samples, test of functional capacity. HES provides crucial information for health care planning and health promotion that cannot be obtained by any other way. There are successful examples of HES in some European countries and North America.
FEHES Project has assessed the feasibility of standardized HESs in European countries and prepared a proposal for their implementation. One of the findings was that in 17 European countries active plans for a some form of national HES already exist. Good quality and international comparability are desirable for these surveys. Therefore international collaborative actions are needed now.
Availability of standardized health information is one of the key objectives of the European Union Public Health Programme. European Commission and Eurostat are developing the European Health Survey System (EHSS) where the European Health Examination Survey (EHES) is a key component.
| Time | Topic | Speaker | |
| 10:00-11:30 | Welcome and practical issues | Kari Kuulasmaa | |
| Aims of this workshop | Kari Kuulasmaa | ||
| Development of the health monitoring in the EU | Antoni Montserrat | ||
| Health indicators and sources of data in EU | Arpo Aromaa | ||
| Health Examination Surveys in Europe | Hanna Tolonen | ||
| 11:30-13:00 | Why a national HES in your country? | ||
| Introduction to group work: Reasons to conduct a national HES based on FEHES Review report | Hanna Tolonen | ||
| Group work. Division into 3-4 groups to discuss the topic A break will be included to the Group work session |
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| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00-14:30 | Presentations of the Group works | ||
| 14:30-15:30 | How HES data has been used? | ||
| Examples from USA, NHANES | Clifford Johnson | ||
| Examples from UK | Hugh Markowe | ||
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee break | ||
| 16:00-16:30 | Implementing a national HES in practice | ||
| Results from the FEHES Review report | Päivikki Koponen | ||
| 16:30-17:00 | Key steps for a sustainable European HES system | Kari Kuulasmaa | |
| Time | Topic | Speaker | ||
| 9:00-9:30 | Introduction to the FEHES recommendations | Hanna Tolonen | ||
| 9:30-10:10 | Sampling | Johan Heldal | ||
| 10:10-10:30 | Recruitment of the participants | Sidsel Graff-Iversen | ||
| 10:30-11:00 | Legal and ethical issues | Susanna Conti | ||
| 11:00-11:30 | Break | |||
| 11:30-11:50 | What to measure? | Paola Primatesta | ||
| 11:50-12:45 | Group work: Bottlenecks of the measurements | |||
| 12:45-13:45 | Lunch | |||
| 13:45-14:05 | Summary of the group work | |||
| 14:05-16:00 | How to measure | |||
| Antropometric measurements (incl. height and weight, waist and hip circumference) | Lucie Viet | |||
| Blood pressure | Hanna Tolonen | |||
| Coffee break | ||||
| Blood samples | Kari Kuulasmaa | |||
| Physical functioning | Sanna Natunen | |||
| Other measurements | Paola Primatesta | |||
| 16:00-17:00 | Group work: Ways to organize and fund a national HES | |||
| Time | Topic | Speaker | ||
| 9:00-9:20 | Monitoring COPD and asthma - technological developments in the IMCA project | Enric Duran | ||
| 9:20-10:20 | Group work results: Ways to organize and fund a national HES | |||
| 10:20-11:30 | How to organize and fund a national HES | Päivikki Koponen | ||
| Planning and budgeting (components of HES) | ||||
| Organizing body | ||||
| Selection of survey site, time of the year, duration of the survey, ect. | ||||
| Logistics | ||||
| Funding | ||||
| 11:30-12:00 | Coffee break | |||
| 12:00-12:30 | Quality assurance | Kari Kuulasmaa | ||
| 12:30-13:00 | Summary and next steps towards the EHES | Kari Kuulasmaa | ||
European Commission / DG Sanco in collaboration with the Feasibility of a European Health Examination Survey (FEHES) Project