INDICATORS

User windows can also be found in the ECHI-2 report and the allocation of an indicator
to one or more user windows is shown in the first column (as UW-x). As explained
in the main text of that report, user windows are formulated as subsets of indicators,
selected from a specific perspective.
The new ECHIM comprehensive list
As a part of the development of the ECHI shortlist, all Public Health Programme
project leaders whose projects had been accepted from 2003 to 2006 (after ECHI-2
project) were asked in January 2008 if their project has developed health indicators.
The ECHIM Products website provides a link to this list. The received information
has been organised chronologically according to the respective strands and reference
numbers in three Excel sheets. The overview gives information of 28 projects within
the strand “health information”, 7 projects within the strand “health threats” and 12
projects within the strand “health determinants”. For each project, the sheets contain
the following information:
• Project title and year
• Short description of the project
• Organisation, project leader and his/her e-mail address
• Link to the project website
• Publication report (if available)
• Project reference number
Content block 3: Link to ICHI-2
The aforementioned ICHI-2 website is linked to the ECHIM Products website. This
was done for the following reasons. Earlier the ICHI-2 website was the only website
containing a very broad collection of health indicators from Eurostat, OECD and
WHO, together with the ECHI longlist indicators. The website is still used by a couple
of hundred users a month and gives a comparative overview of the definitions of health
indicators used by those organisations, until approximately July 2005. For several
reasons it was decided to stop updating this website. First, as time went by the websites
of the organisations involved have evolved into user-friendly websites that make their
indicator information easy to access. Second, the organisations differ in their way of
data presentation either as indicators (WHO), variables (OECD) or as “raw” aggregated
data (Eurostat), and also in different hierarchies. All of this makes updating the database
a tricky and difficult task. On the start page of the ICHI-2 website, there is a clear-cut
explanation of its status. As the follow-up of the ICHI-2 compendium, the content
block “Indicators on the web” (see below) will provide links to the websites of Eurostat,
OECD and WHO where all background information and metadata can be found.
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