WWW-publications from 
the European Health Risk Monitoring Project

1. Review of surveys for risk factors of major chronic diseases and comparability of the results (html, pdf)
   • This document reviews number of national population surveys in Europe for the methods and indicators they have used in risk factor surveys. The main emphasis is on the major cardiovascular risk factors, i.e. smoking, blood pressure, blood cholesterol, and body weight, that are also relevant for other chronic diseases. In addition, the review considers a number of other factors that are considered important for population based risk factor surveys. 
2. Recommendation for indicators, international collaboration, protocol and manual of operations for chronic disease risk factor surveys (html, pdf)
   • This documents gives a list of recommended population indicators for chronic disease risk factors and contains a protocol and operational guidelines for the individual measurements needed for the indicators. The document also deals with issues related to organizing the risk factor surveys on the national level and makes recommendations for international collaboration. 
3. Report of a Workshop: Health Surveys in Europe - The Role of Surveys in Monitoring (html, pdf)
   • The workshop was held in Luxembourg on 13-14 May 2002
4. Reporting Risk Factor Survey Data (html, pdf)
   • The document deals with the principles of the contents of the routine reporting of the health monitoring information. It focuses on the ways of reporting the data for different target groups, and on the type of information that needs to accompany the actual data. It does not address the list of health issues that should be reported nor the technical aspects of reporting. It aims to give one point of view to the discussion on reporting.

Note: The master copy of all the above documents is in the html format