European Health for All family of databases
World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe (WHO- Europe), Copenhagen, Denmark.
Mid-1980s.
To collate independent, comparable and up to date health statistics for all WHO Member States in the European region to support the monitoring of health trends.
The database includes data for all 53 WHO Member States in the WHO European Region, although data availability and comparability may be limited for some countries. The databases cover the period from 1970 to the present.
HFA is a central database of independent, comparable and up-to-date basic health statistics. It has been a key source of information on health in the European Region since WHO/ Europe launched it in the mid-1980s. It contains time series from 1970.
Public health professionals, policy makers, media professionals, health professionals and researchers.
HFA is updated annually and contains about 1450 indicators for the 53 member states in the region. The indicators cover: basic demographics; health status (mortality, morbidity, maternal health and child health); health determinants (such as lifestyle and environment) healthcare (resources and utilization).
Yes, http://dw.euro.who.int/
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There are various sources from which WHO/Europe regularly collects health data. Part of the data is annually collected directly from countries; a request for data is issued by the WHO every year for an update of around 200 indicators. Data is submitted on excel spreadsheets. Another part of data comes from those WHO technical units that collect appropriate statistical information within their own field. Mostly this relates to the incidence of infectious diseases, immunisation and mortality data by cause, age and sex. Secondary information sources, such as other international organisations and agencies, are also an important source of data for a number of indicators. In addition to above, data is transmitted annually to Eurostat, OECD and the WHO by means of the Joint Data Collection on non-Monetary Health Care Statistics. This joint data collection is a harmonised approach developed by Eurostat, OECD and WHO in order to reduce the data collection burden on countries.
International Statistical Classification of Diseases (ICD).
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Annually.
The data is available to users through the HFA explorer at the internet address http://gateway.euro.who.int/en/hfa-explorer/, a tool that allows integrated access to indicators, enables dynamic comparisons and exploration.
The Gateway is the main entry-point and interface for the data warehouse. The data warehouse is a unique repository that integrates WHO Europe databases The WHO Europe integrated Data Warehouse API lets programmatically access the indicators and query the data in several ways, using parameters to specify a request.
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