Support provided by

EHES Reference Centre

Hanna TolonenSusanna ContiJohan Heldal

EHES JA Kick-off meeting, 21 January 2010, Luxembourg

EHES RC

• Established jointly by • National Institute for Health and Welfare

(THL), Finland• Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), Italy• Statistics Norway (SSB), Norway

PersonnelKari Kuulasmaa Hanna Tolonen

Sanna Ahonen

Johan Heldal

Susie Cooper

Susanna Conti

Mark Kanieff

Johanna Mäki-Opas Jari Kirsilä

Ari Haukijärvi

Jouko Sundvall

Päivikki Koponen

Georg Alfthan

THL, Finland ISS, Italy

SSB, Norway

Tasks of the EHES RC (1/3)

• Development and publication of the EHES Manual

• Assessment of available standards for suggested additional measurements

• Providing professional support to the countries planning a national HES

• Developing the training programme for the EHES system, preparing training material and organizing international training seminars

Tasks of the EHES RC (2/3)

• Coordinating external quality control and preparing guidelines for and monitoring of internal quality control

• Developing principles and rules for sharing individual-level HES data

• Establishing a data transfer and management system

• Planning standardized blood sample storage protocols

Tasks of the EHES RC (3/3)

• Developing a system for rapid reporting of the basic survey results

• Performing a risk assessment for the implementation and coordination of the pilot EHES

• Preparing national manuals together with the national authorities

Professional support

• Review of the national • HES plans• Dissemination plans

• Assistance for • Sampling issues (SSB, Norway)• Legal, ethical and data confidentiality

issues (ISS, Italy)• Defining the national HES budget