News from European Health Interview Survey (EHIS) Agenda point 11 Lucian Agafitei ESTAT Unit F-4 14-15 March 2018 Working Group "European Statistical Data Support"

Context EHIS wave 1 (2006-2009) EHIS wave 2 (2013-2015) No legal basis Limited participation (around 17 MS) Dissemination limited to few topics with good comparability EHIS wave 2 (2013-2015) Legal basis EU MS, NO, IS and TR Dissemination of a wide range of indicators EHIS wave 3 (2018-2020)

EHIS data in Eurobase New datatree for EHIS wave 2 data EHIS wave 1 -> Historical data (temporary solution) http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/health/

Dissemination of EHIS wave 2 data Current situation Further planned Geo. coverage EU 28 + IS, NO, TR Other non EU countries Time dimension 2014 (for dissemination purposes) Joint dissemination with wave 1 (whenever possible) Breakdowns Age Sex Education/income/degree of urbanization Labour status Activity limitation Citizenship Country of birth Standardisation No Age standardised

Datasets disseminated in Eurobase (i) Health status Current depressive symptoms Severity of current depressive symptoms Severity of bodily pain Physical and sensory functional limitations Difficulties in personal care activities Difficulties in household activities Reporting a chronic disease, by disease Reporting an accident resulting in injury Medical intervention for an accident resulting in injury Absence from work due to personal health problems

Datasets disseminated in Eurobase (ii) Health care Self-reported time elapsed since last visit to a medical professional Self-reported consultations of a medical professional Self-reported consultation of mental healthcare or rehabilitative care professionals Self-reported vaccination against influenza Self-reported screening of cardiovascular diseases and diabetes risks Self-reported last breast examination by X-ray among women Self-reported last cervical smear test among women Self-reported last colorectal cancer screening test Self-reported use of prescribed medicines Self-reported use of non-prescribed medicines Self-reported use of home care services Self-reported unmet needs for health care by specific reasons Self-reported unmet needs for specific health care-related services due to financial reasons

Datasets disseminated in Eurobase (iii) Health determinants Body mass index Effort involved in performing work-related physical activity Performing (non-work-related) physical activities Time spent on health-enhancing (non-work-related) aerobic physical activity Performing health-enhancing physical activity Daily consumption of fruit and vegetables Frequency of fruit and vegetables consumption Smoking of tobacco products Daily smokers of cigarettes Daily exposure to tobacco smoke indoors Frequency of alcohol consumption Frequency of heavy episodic drinking Overall perceived social support Persons providing informal care or assistance at least once a week

Assessment of comparability of data between EHIS waves 1 and 2 Aim: having a joint dissemination of both waves Status: ongoing (via contract) Result: revised data tree But request from the Eurobase team adding the survey year in the datasets titles 9-10 February 2017 Technical Group HIS Statistics

Additional dissemination on the Eurostat website and other platforms News releases: 14/10/2016: Fruit and vegetables consumption 20/10/2016: Body mass index 7/12/2016: Tobacco consumption Updated "news" section that offers a variety of news items Preventive services (Febr. 2017) Depression (March 2017) Physical activity (March 2017) Medicine use (April 2017) Diabetes (Nov. 2017) Twitter/Facebook: Infographics on some preventive services (cancer screening) for the World Cancer Day

Use of the EHIS results in Statistics Explained articles Updating statistical articles of the online publication Health in the European Union – facts and figures Revision of existing articles and creation of new articles (for instance on consumption of fruit and vegetables, health enhancing physical activity, alcohol consumption)

Use of the EHIS results in publications

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