ECHO aimed at building a common knowledge infrastructure based on existing datasets, which ultimately allowed international healthcare performance comparisons.
Conceived as a pilot study, ECHO set about the task of bringing together patient-level data from Denmark, England, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain, and contextual information -demographic, socioeconomic, and healthcare supply data.
This knowledge infrastructure allows evaluating more than 40 performance indicators, carefully developed to avoid inappropriate cross-country comparisons.

Investigate the relationships between diet, nutritional status, lifestyle and environmental factors, and the incidence of cancer and other chronic diseases

In recent years, biomedical research has crossed international borders in large, collaborative studies showing the value of multidisciplinarity and scale advantage. This has yielded valuable insights and some led to new and better medicines and treatments for diseases. Howeve...

European Health Examination Survey (EHES) was a collaboration between organizers of national health examination surveys (HES) in Europe. EHES supported capacity building in the EU Member States and aimed to ensure high quality and comparability of the surveys.