INDICATORS

ANNEX 5
• Demographic and socio-economic factors
• Health status
• Health determinants
• Health interventions: health services
• Health interventions: health promotions
By clicking on one of the above items on the website, the associated indicators are
shown within a flat list. By clicking on one of the individual indicators, a page opens
containing the Documentation Sheet for that specific indicator.
Content block 2: The ECHIM comprehensive lists
In the final report of ECHI-2, the ECHI longlist was included, being the inventory of
all indicators proposed by projects in the Public Health Programme and its predecessor,
the Health Monitoring Programme. All these indicators (almost 500) were sorted in the
conceptual ECHI frame and for each indicator, if available, the definition and respective
data source were given. At its start, ECHIM aimed to update this information and to
add new indicators developed by projects established after the ECHI-2 period. However,
with the growing number of projects and the increasing number of proposed indicators
in sometimes rather restricted fields, this comprehensive list became increasingly large
and unbalanced. It was decided that its mere function as structured inventory of all
indicator proposals, irrespective of their degree of feasibility and importance, is not
useful enough to justify the substantial amount of work needed, within the available
resources of ECHIM.
Therefore, as was also mentioned in Chapter 3.4., the maintenance and update of the
longlist has been simplified. Instead of placing each new indicator in the conceptual
structure, with its detailed information, an overview was given of those projects which
had been active in health indicator development. As a consequence, under the heading
“ECHIM comprehensive lists”, the ECHIM Products website provides 1) the ECHI
longlist, for indicators proposed up to 2005, and 2) the new list containing a list of EU
funded indicator projects after ECHI-2. This is further explained below.
The ECHI longlist
The ECHI longlist, version 7 July 2005, is presented as a PDF file on the website. It is
the last version issued within the frame of ECHI-2. The longlist is also available in the
ICHI-2 application within the ECHI taxonomy. For each indicator, the list presents as
much metadata as there are available.
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