EUPHID - European Health Promotion Indicator Project

The EUHPID Health Promotion Indicator Project was led by Professor John Kenneth Davies between 2001-2004. Co-funded by the European Commission DG SANCO under the Health Monitoring Programme, the Consortium, which carried out this work, consisted of experts from the Member States of the EU, together with colleagues from Norway and Switzerland, as well as from the principal international professional association – the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE).

Project aims

The EUHPID project had three broad aims:

  • To establish a European Health Promotion Monitoring System, including a common set of health promotion indicators;
  • To recommend suitable methodology and systems to collect the above data on health promotion indicators and activate the monitoring system;
  • To recommend appropriate user-friendly dissemination strategies that provide practical relevance and value to the work of both policy makers and practitioners concerned with promotion policy and practice at Community level and within the Member States

Project impact

The EUHPID Project focussed its work on contributing to, and improving, the European Community Health Indicators (ECHI) framework. In particular, it sought to strengthen the framework by making it more holistic and comprehensive through the inclusion of more salutogenic perspectives, based on health capacities and health opportunities at individual and environmental levels.

The Project emphasised the complexity of health promotion as a major intervention tool that not only works at individual level but also at group, community and societal levels. It established a health development model to set the context, not only for health promotion as an intervention tool, but also for interventions based on health services and related forms of delivery. This health development perspective, adopted as a context for the Community Health Monitoring System, strengthens the ECHI indicator framework as a flexible and effective tool, not just for monitoring, but also for planning effective interventions at both Community and Member State levels.

Research team

Professor John Kenneth Davies

Caroline Hall

Chloe Hill

Eleanor Linwood

Sue Ginn

Outputs

Davies, J.K and Hall, C. E. (2006) The Achievements of EUHPID Phase 1, European Planning and Strategy group, University of Vienna, Austria.

Hall, C and Davies, J.K (2005) The EUHPID Project: Outcomes, European Planning and Strategy group, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.

Hall, C and Davies, J.K (2004) The European Health Promotion Indicator Development Project, Oral paper presented at the EC Health Systems Working Party, Luxembourg.

Partners

University of Graz

University of Southern Denmark

National Institute of Health (Denmark)

Rede Nacional de Escolas Promotoras de Saude

Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the Sociology of Health

National University of Ireland

University of Maastricht

IUHPE/UIPES

University of Zurich

Escuela Valenciana de Estudios para la Salud

Fachbereich Sozial-und Gesundheitswesen Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal

University of Jyvaskyla

Nordic School of Public Health (Sweden)

Université libre de Bruxelles

Flemish Institute for Health Promotion

University of Perugia

University College London

Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (Greece)

Aix-Marseille University

University of Bergen