The Service Delivery Indicators (SDI) Health Survey in Ukraine is intended to provide policy-relevant evidence to enable governments, citizens, and other stakeholders to identify successes and bottlenecks in health service delivery, monitor progress over time, and make cross-country comparisons....

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed significant weaknesses in Germany's ability to generate timely, equity-sensitive evidence at the household level. While national surveillance systems produced daily counts of confirmed cases, hospitalisations, and deaths, they offered little insight into the social...

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed significant weaknesses in Germany's ability to generate timely, equity-sensitive evidence at the household level. While national surveillance systems produced daily counts of confirmed cases, hospitalisations, and deaths, they offered little insight into the social...

The Service Delivery Indicators (SDI) health survey in Ghana serves as a vital tool for assessing and benchmarking the performance of primary health care service delivery. This comprehensive evaluation provides policy-relevant evidence to enable governments, citizens, and other stakeholders to...

OBJECTIVES Empower individuals through better digital access to their personal health data; Support free movement by ensuring that health data follow people; Set up strict rules for the use of anonymised, or pseudonymised health data for research, innovation and policy-making.

The Service Delivery Indicators (SDI) health survey in Moldova serves as a vital tool for assessing and benchmarking the performance of health service delivery. Its primary aim is to evaluate the quality of basic health services. This comprehensive evaluation enables both governments and service...

Empower individuals through better digital access to their personal health data; support free movement by ensuring that health data follow people; ✓ Unleash the data economy by fostering a genuine single market for digital health services and products; ✓ Set up strict rules for the use of...

The purpose of this publication is to support Member States in completing the OECD, Eurostat, WHO Europe Joint Questionnaire on Non-Monetary Healthcare Statistics (JQNMHC) in line with Commission Regulation (EU) 2022/2294. It provides an outline of the transmission and dissemination processes,...

Although most studies on disease emergencies underscore the need for household readiness for shocks associated with disease outbreaks, no study to date has provided a holistic measure for profiling households based on their readiness toward disease outbreaks. This paper introduces a novel...

This paper examines the impact of manufacturing employment on women's health and decision-making power within households in Lesotho. Under the US African Growth and Opportunity Act of 2000, the employment of women in ready-made garment (RMG) factories in new industrial zones greatly increased....

SHARE, the "Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe", is a large population-based panel survey among people aged 50 and over with data from 28 European countries and Israel. It investigates individual, economic, health-related, and social life-course circumstances in order to shed...

We present a novel generic theoretical framework to analyze the incentives agents have to engage in n-way data sharing or 'data pooling' and the factors affecting those incentives. Based on the results obtained, we provide policy recommendations aimed at fostering health data pooling. Section 1...

The problem of disability is perceived as one of the most serious social issues faced by the contemporary society. The number of people with disability is consistently rising for a variety of reasons, including the aging of the population. Data on disability are collected through numerous...

Die Weltgesundheitsorganisation (WHO) hat jüngst Richtlinien für Studien, die Basisdaten für gesundheitspolitische Entscheidungen im Pandemiefall liefern können, veröffentlicht. Durch die Zusammenarbeit zwischen unterschiedlichen Disziplinen kann es gelingen, evidenzbasierte Entscheidungen...

This paper uses linked survey responses and administrative hospital records to examine the accuracy of self-reported medical diagnoses. The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) collects self-reported information on the incidence of heart attacks, strokes and cancer in the past two years....

Using a cross-section of 124 colonised countries, we evaluate the effect of the European share of the colonial population on human development as measured by life expectancy, fertility rate, and infant mortality rate. We find that European colonial settlement is positively related to life...

This paper uses linked survey responses and administrative hospital records to examine the accuracy of self-reported medical diagnoses. The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) collects self-reported information on the incidence of heart attacks, strokes and cancer in the past two years....

Die Weltgesundheitsorganisation (WHO) hat jüngst Richtlinien für Studien, die Basisdaten für gesundheitspolitische Entscheidungen im Pandemiefall liefern können, veröffentlicht. Durch die Zusammenarbeit zwischen unterschiedlichen Disziplinen kann es gelingen, evidenzbasierte Entscheidungen...