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Quality assessment of MEHM in Quality assessment of MEHM in SILCSILC

Eurostat Unit F5 “Health and Food Safety Statistics”

4th meeting of the Task Force on Health ExpectanciesLuxembourg, 4 June 2007

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The Minimum European Health Module (MEHM)

MEHM used in:

EU-SILC –> list of variables

European Health Status Module (EHSM) of the European Health Interview Survey (EHIS) –> questions with conceptual cards

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MEHM in EU-SILC Health, including health status and chronic

illness or conditionGeneral healthVery good/Good/Fair/Bad/Very badSuffer from any chronic (long-standing)

illness or conditionYes/NoLimitation in activities people usually do

because of health problems for at least the last 6 months

Yes, strongly limited/Yes, limited/No, not limited

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EU-SILC Implementation year:

2003: BE, DK, EL, IE, LU, AT + NO

2004: EE, ES, FR, IT, PT, FI, SE + IS

2005: CZ, DE, CY, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, SI, SK, UK

2006: BG, RO

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EU-SILC: sample sizes in 2005

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MEHM in EHIS

Questions originally developed in English Translation protocol for other languages Eurostat grants and Transition Facility/Phare

projects for preparing national linguistic versions following the translation protocol and testing

Final English version of the EHIS adopted by the Working Group on Public Health Statistics in November 2006

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Harmonisation of health questions January-February 2007

National questionnaires with PH010 to PH070 questions collected from all MS; each MS provided the questionnaires from the 1st year of implementation to 2007

End February 2007 National questionnaires sent to all EHIS delegates

from MS, for checking these questions; deadline end March 2007

April-June 2007 Adapt SILC detailed guidelines on the MEHM

questions using the EHIS conceptual cards and guidelines

Analyse and make a synthesis of the checking done by the EHIS delegates in all MS

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19 June 2007 Inform the SILC Working Group and solve any

remaining problems in national questionnaires and organise coordination with the EHIS national delegates in order to ensure a continuous coordination

2007-2008 All national SILC questionnaires harmonised for

the 2008 round

Harmonisation of health questions

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Calculations done for 2003, 2004 and 2005 with the SILC data (depending on the year of implementation)

Consultations with EHEMU Dissemination: summer 2007

Dissemination of the 2003-2005 HLY data