The 1st European School on Health Information

Call for Participation

The 1^st European School on Health Information –

From data collection to policy dialogue and translation in the framework of health examination survey

WHEN: 1, 8, 22, 29 October and 5 November 2020 (Thursdays)

WHERE: online

Online Sessions: IHMT/NOVA WEBPAGE (a link will be provided for the participants)

Overview

Health Information is important for European Union strategic development. Health Information is a comprehensive area, in rapid evolution, including new data collection and data analysis methods, information management tools and translational research for developing new European-wide policies. Health knowledge and information capacities vary across EU member states and the need to reinforce common practices and methods to improve the collection, management and use of health information is recognized.

The main objective of this first training school, designed under the InfAct, the Joint Action on Health Information, is to contribute to increasing knowledge on availability and use of standardized Health Information methods to common practices in EU member states and associate countries.

Participants

Requirements for the participants:

Member of one of the InfAct partners or actively working in health information related context, and
To have about 2-3 years of experience on the field of health information or related topics on public health;

For pedagogic reasons the maximum number of attendees is 30. A wide coverage of the Member States (MS) will be prioritized, i.e. maximum 2 persons/MS.

Course fee: Free of charge

Application Deadline: The application should be send until 12th of September 2020. The selected applications will be notified by 14th of September 2020.

Admission

The admission will be granted through a selection process.

Please, fill-in the online application form. If more than a maximum number of applications are received, we will prioritize maximum two person per country.

Please send your application to the following link.

1^st European School Programme

The total duration of this programme is of 60h. It will comprise some autonomous homework and five days of online sessions. Participants will be provided some background reading two weeks prior to the training school. The training school programme is as follows:

Time	1 October	8 October	22 October	29 October	5 November
9:00	Registration	Session 2.1: Comparability of different data sources (Kenneth Eaton and Päivikki Koponen)	Session 3.1: European Core Health Indicators (ECHI): looking backward, moving forward (by RIVM)	Session 4.1: Interoperability – what it is? (Luís Lapão)	Session 5.1: Health information and GDPR (Luís Lapão)
9:30	Welcome and tour de table (Paulo Nogueira and Luís Lapão)				Session 5.1: Health information and GDPR (Luís Lapão)
10:00	Session 1.1: Health information systems (Petronille Bogaert and Luís Lapão)	Session 2.2: New innovative data sources for health information (Luís Lapão)	Session 3.2: New innovative health indicators (Maira Ortiz and Rodrigo Sarmiento)	Session 4.2: Examples of interoperability (Ivan Pristas and Damir Ivanković)	Session 5.2: Legal and ethical requirements in a HES (Hanna Tolonen)
10:45	Coffee break			Coffee break	Coffee break
11:00	Session 1.2: Role of health examination surveys as a HI data source (Hanna Tolonen and Päivikki Koponen)	Coffee break	Coffee break	Session 4.3: Linking survey data to data from administrative registers (Hanna Tolonen)	Session 5.3: Discussions on GDPR (Ana Dulce Pinto)
11:15		Session 2.3 Non-response in health surveys and methods to adjust for survey non-response (Hanna Tolonen, Päivikki Koponen and Tommi Härkänen)	Session 3.3: Estimation of trends and projections/forecast of health and health determinants (Henk Hilderink and Hanna Tolonen)		Session 5.3: Discussions on GDPR (Ana Dulce Pinto)
12:00	Group work 1 health information data sources (Monitored by Paulo Nogueira and Luís Lapão)			Group work 4 Data linkage exercise	Evaluation and feedback of the training week ( Verónica Gómez)
12:30				Group work 4 Data linkage exercise	Final words and group photo
13:00	Lunch and networking	Lunch and networking	Lunch and networking	Lunch and networking	Lunch
14:00	Group work 1 continues	Group work 2 : Survey non-response and effective recruitment (Monitored by Hanna Tolonen and Päivikki Koponen)	Session 3.4: Examples of HES data use (by Luigi Palmieri and Hanna Tolonen)	Group work 4 continues
15:00	Project presentations (Monitored by Paulo Nogueira and Luís Lapão)		Group work 3 Preparing a public health report (monitored by Paulo Nogueira and Luís Lapão)	Group work 4 continues
15:45	Coffee break	Coffee break	Coffee break	Coffee break
16:00-17:00	Session 1.3: The experience of European Health Examination Surveys in Portugal ( Baltazar Nunes and Marta Barreto)	Project presentations (monitored by Paulo Nogueira and Luís Lapão)	Session 3.5 The Portuguese Strategy for ECHI (Eduarda Góis)	Project presentations (monitored by Paulo Nogueira and Luís Lapão)