A European Research Network (RN) is an active network of national and/or regional experts from several countries that perform comparative research in a specific health area (information domain).
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.
Topics
Health systems » Health system performance » Quality » Care
Health systems » Health system performance » Costs/expenditure
Health systems » Health system performance » Access
Health status » Mortality » Age- and cause-specific mortality » Non-communicable diseases (excluding cancer)
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...
Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland - THL
Aim of the Research Network
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.
Topics
Determinants of health » Socioeconomic and demographic factors
Health status » Morbidity/disability » Self-reported health status
Determinants of health » Individual characteristics and behaviours
Health status » Wellbeing
Health status » Morbidity/disability » Non-communicable diseases