EURO-URHIS
| Project title: | European Urban Health Indicators System |
| Acronym: | EURO-URHIS |
| Funding: | EC, DG SANCO
Agreement No. 2005119 |
| Web-site: | http://www.urhis.eu/ |
| Project coordinator: | University of Manchester, United Kingdom Prof. Dick Heller |
| All partners: |
- Institute of Health Information and Statistics,Czech Republic - National Federation of Regional Health Observatories, - Institute of Public Health North Rhine-Westphalia - Athens University Medical School, Greece - Local Health Unit RME, Italy - Public Health Agency of Latvia, Latvia - Kaunas University of Medicine, Lithuania - Utrecht Municipal Health Service, the Netherlands - University of Oslo, Norway - Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway - University of Medicine and Pharmacy Cluj-Napoca, - Slovak Public Health Association, Slovakia - Regional Institute of Public Health Maribor, Slovenia - Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey - University of Liverpool, United Kingdom - University of Manchester, United Kingdom |
| National coordinator: | SAVEZ - Iveta Rajnicova-Nagyova, PhD iveta.nagyova@upjs.sk |
| Duration of the project: |
Aug 2006 – July 2008 |
PROJECT SUMMARY
From 2007, more than half of the world’s population will be living in cities. The health needs of urban dwellers, and the ability to monitor urban health will become a high priority. The EU Public Health Programme work plan 2005 identified the development of an urban health indicator system as an essential part of a comprehensive and integrated EU health information and knowledge system. Based on this, and all the previous work funded by the EU, such as ECHI, ISARE, ECHIM and others, a group led by the University of Manchester, UK, has started work on the development of a system of urban health indicators.