Table 1.

Data sets for European health statistics

Source: [27, 29]

	Focus	Health indicators
EHIS (European health interview survey)*	Health	Demography and socioeconomic situation, health status, health determinants and measures by the healthcare system
EU-SILC (EU statistics on income and living conditions)*	Income and living conditions	Health status and utilisation of the healthcare system (minimum European health module: MEHM, seven variables)
EU LFS (EU Labour Force Survey)*	Labour market conditions and trends	Employment of disabled people (2002, 2011); accidents at work and other work-related health problems (1999, 2007, 2013) (ad-hoc modules)
OECD/Eurostat/WHO in the System of Health Accounts (SHA)	Health expenditure	Including costs of investments in the health sector, income from programmes to finance healthcare, contributions to cover the costs of healthcare goods and services, health expenditure based on essential characteristics of service recipients
OECD/Eurostat/WHO Europe on non-monetary health care benefits	Health care system resources and measures	Hospital discharges, hospital stays, medical procedures, selected preventive measures and consultations
Causes of death	Cause of death statistics	ICD causes of death
Accidents at work	Statistics on accidents at work	Non-fatal/fatal accidents at work
Diagnosis-specific morbidity (pilot phase, regular data collection possibly from 2020)	Incidence and prevalence of diseases	Diseases (list currently under development)

* planned future implementation under the Framework regulation for the production of European statistics – Integrated European Social Statistics, IESS [30]

OECD=Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development; Eurostat=Statistical office of the European Union; WHO=World Health Organisation; ICD=International classification of diseases