1. Partnership on Health Statistics Progress Report DSS Meeting Jeannette KLIMONT 22 September 2008 © STATISTIK AUSTRIA www.statistik.at Wir bewegen Informationen.

2. Partnership on Health Statistics  To further develop and implement a consistent set of comparable health statistics at Community level  To achieve this by intensive and close collaboration with the 27 Member States and Candidate Countries Aim of this document is to inform the DSS on  Achievements and progress of the PH regarding the developments and improvements in public health statistics  Seek comments on the future of the PH Overall aim of Partnership Health (PH)

3. Structure of PH  Partnership Health Management Group (PHMG)  Overall co-ordination, reporting, forward planning  Core Groups (CG)  CoD, CARE, HIS, MORB  Monitoring needs and initiation of further development work  Ad hoc Task Forces (TF) and Development Groups (DevG)  Specific methodological developments

4. Partnership on Health Statistics  Started in November 2007 and will last for 18 months Following adaptations after first period were implemented:  Morbidity statistics as fourth strand with its own CG  TGs run directly by Eurostat  Membership of CG was reconsidered Second period of PH

5. Organisational Structure for Partnership Health PH management group PH chair* (1) + Lead MSs (4) + Eurostat *PH co-ordinator (Main contracting NSI) Ad hoc Task Forces, Development Groups (specific development) Core Group HIS 10 experts incl. 1 lead MS + Eurostat staff Core Group CARE 9 experts incl. 1 lead MS + Eurostat staff Core Group MORB 8 experts incl. 1 lead MS + Eurostat staff Core Group CoD 8 experts incl. 1 lead MS + Eurostat staff Private experts (if appropriate) Respective Eurostat Technical Groups (CARE, CoD and HIS) Other Community Programms, user DG‘s (SANCO, EMPL, ENV, etc.) International organisations Eurostat and Eurostat Working Group on Public Health Statistics Directors of Social Statistics (DSS) Statistical Programme Committee (SPC) Reporting/ Accountability/ Quality Assurance

6. Activities of PHMG (Nov 2007 to Aug 2008)  Three meetings  Adoption of the document “Rules, procedures and code of conduct”  Discussion on  Road maps  Users group  Regional statistics on health  Establishment of new TFs  Organisation and coordination of PH meetings

7.  Meeting in April 2008  Main focus on non-expenditure data  Methodological improvement and development of data collection on health labour accounts  Improving exercise of the Hospital Minimum Dataset 2 project  Development of a harmonized list of specialists  DevG SHA revision: meeting in April 2008 Activities of CG CARE (Nov 2007 to Aug 2008)

8.  Meeting in February and June 2008  Main focus on:  Certification, coding and statistics on Causes of Death  Draft glossary (produced by the TF)  Update of the road map  New TF on coverage and confidentiality Activities of CG CoD (Nov 2007 to Aug 2008)

9.  Meeting in March 2008  Main focus on:  Draft report from TF sampling  New module on disability and social integration (EDSIM)  EHIS implementation in MS  New TF on institutionalised people Activities of CG HIS (Nov 2007 to Aug 2008)

10.  Meeting in May 2008  Main focus on:  Discussion of Terms of Reference (ToR)  Preparation of short term road map Activities of CG MORB (Nov 2007 to Aug 2008)

11. Planned Activities of PH  Five to six meetings of PHMG  Two CG meetings for CARE, CoD, HIS and MORB  One to two meetings of DevG SHA, TF coverage and confidentiality, TF on institutionalised people  Potentially one to two meetings of TF on CoD short list revision and/or TF on migrants

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