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ECHI-shortlist

The ECHI-shortlist, divided by two grades of availability of data (adapted from the ECHIM-project). A more extensive list, including definitions, sources, comments and rationale of selection can be found on the website of the International Compendium of Health Indicators (ICHI) and in Kramers & the ECHI-team, 2005.

Indicator class

Regularly available, reasonably comparable

Partly available, sizeable comparability problems

Demographic and socio-economic factors

- Population by gender/age

- Birth rate

- Mother's age distribution (incl.teenage pregnancies)

- Fertility rate

- Population projections

- Population by education

- Population by occupation

- Total unemployment

- Population in poverty

Health status

- Life expectancies

- Smoking-related deaths

- Infant mortality

- Alcohol-related deaths

- Perinatal mortality

- Diabetes prevalence

- SDR Eurostat 65 causes, ages 0-64, 65+

- Dementia/Alzheimer prevalence

- Drug-related deaths

- Depression prevalence

- HIV/AIDS incidence

- AMI incidence

- Lung cancer incidence

- Stroke incidence

- Breast cancer incidence

- Asthma prevalence

- (low) birth weight

- COPD prevalence

- Injuries road traffic

- Injuries: home/leisure, violence

- Injuries workplace

- Suicide attempt

- Perceived general health

- General musculoskeletal pain

- Prevalence of chronic illness

- Limitations in physical functions

- Limitations of usual activities

- Psychological distress

- Related health expectancies

- Related health expectancies

Health determinants

- Regular smokers

- Body mass index

- Total alcohol consumption

- Blood pressure

- Intake of fruit

- Pregnant women smoking

- Intake of vegetables

- Hazardous alcohol consumption

- PM10 exposure

- Use of illicit drugs

- Physical activity

- Breastfeeding

- Social support

Health interventions: health services

- Vaccination coverage children

- Mobility of professionals

- Breast cancer screening

- Other outpatient visits (surveys, besides GP)

- Cervical cancer screening

- Equity of access

- Hospital beds

- Medicine use

- Physicians employed

- Waiting times elective surgeries

- Nurses employed

- Surgical wound infections

- Technologies (MRI, CT)

- Cancer treatment quality

- Hospital in-patient discharges

- Diabetes control

- Hospital daycases

- Patient mobility

- Daycase-discharge ratio

- ALOS

- GP utilisation (surveys)

- Surgeries (PTCA, hip replacement, cataract)

- Insurance coverage

- Expenditures on health

- Cancer survival rates

Health interventions: health promotion

- Policies against ETS exposure

- Policies on healthy nutrition

- Policies/practices on lifestyles etc.

- Integrated programmes in settings