- Data were gathered by the correspondents of the ISARE project in each of the participating countries by contacts with the national statistical offices.
- The ISARE project (health indicators in the regions of Europe) aims at gathering useful information on health indicators in the regions of the European Union.
- The ISARE project firstly defined "health regions" within European Member States and then tested the feasibility of gathering data at those regional levels. The list of data to be collected was defined taking into account the ECHI list and information on the availability of these data at the regional level. The report of the ISARE-1 and ISARE-2 projects are available on the ISARE website. The ISARE-3 project continues the work of the ISARE-1 and -2 and includes data of new Member States (EU-25).
- Some of the data are coming from Health examination surveys, others from Health interview surveys. For the latter, an underestimation is a common phenomenon. The age range usually includes the population of 15 and over, but sometimes it is 20 and over or 20-64. Because of these variations, a proper assesment of differences is difficult to make, especially between countries.
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An EU project. The first phase, ISARE I (1999-2001) defined the most appropriate sub-national level (\'health region\') for the exchange of health indicators within the European Union and enabled the assessment of the extent of data availability at those levels. The second phase, ISARE II (2002-2004), made it possible to test the feasibility of collecting regional data in each European country. www.isare.org
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