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European Health Information Portal
Tolonen, Hanna; Saso, Miriam; Unim, Brigid; Palmieri, Luigi; Schutte, Nienke; Peyroteo, Mariana; Lapão, Luís Velez; Habl, Claudia; Bogaert, PetronilleFunding Information: The InfAct project received funding from the European Union's Health Programme (2014-20) under grand agreement No 801553 InfAct, and PHIRI received funding from The European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grand agreement No 10108317. We would like to express our gratitude for all National Nodes who have worked on the development of the Health Information Portal...
Harmonized human biomonitoring in European children, teenagers and adults
Govarts, Eva; Gilles, Liese; Rodriguez Martin, Laura; Santonen, Tiina; Apel, Petra; Alvito, Paula; Anastasi, Elena; Andersen, Helle RaunFunding Information: The authors would like to thank everybody who contributed to the HBM4EU Aligned Studies: the participating children, teenagers, adults and their families, the fieldworkers that collected the samples and database managers that made the information available to HBM4EU, the HBM4EU project partners, especially those from WP7 for developing all materials supporting the fieldwork, WP9 for organiz...
Integrating technical and political views for a sustainable European Distribute...
Padron-Monedero, Alicia; Suárez, Rodrigo Sarmiento; Bogaert, Petronille; Abboud, Linda; Van Oyen, Herman; Tolonen, Hanna; Tijhuis, Mariken J.Funding Information: We gratefully acknowledge the contribution of all beneficiaries and stakeholders from the Joint Action Project 801553 Information for Action InfAct. Likewise, we acknowledge the contributions of the country representatives of the Assembly of Members and the Technical Dialogues from the EU/EEA MSs that participated in the InfAct Project. Publisher Copyright: © 2022, The Author(s).; Backgroun...
The InfAct proposal for a sustainable European health information infrastructur...
Sarmiento-Suárez, Rodrigo; Padron-Monedero, Alicia; Bogaert, Petronille; Abboud, Linda; Van Oyen, Herman; Tolonen, Hanna; Tijhuis, Mariken© 2022. The Author(s).; BACKGROUND: In Europe, data on population health is fragmented, difficult to access, project-based and prone to health information inequalities in terms of availability, accessibility and especially in quality between and within countries. This situation is further exacerbated and exposed by the recent COVID-19 pandemic. The Joint Action on Health Information (InfAct) that builds on prev...
Local problem solving in the Portuguese health examination survey
Lyshol, Heidi; Gil, Ana Paula; Tolonen, Hanna; Namorado, Sónia; Kislaya, Irina; Barreto, Marta; Antunes, Liliana; Gaio, Vânia; Santos, Ana João© 2022. The Author(s).; BACKGROUND: Participation rates in health surveys, recognized as an important quality dimension, have been declining over the years, which may affect representativeness and confidence in results. The Portuguese national health examination survey INSEF (2015) achieved a participation rate of 43.9%, which is in line with participation rates from other similar health examination surveys. Th...
Combining self-reported and objectively measured survey data to improve hyperte...
Kislaya, Irina; Leite, Andreia; Perelman, Julian; Machado, Ausenda; Torres, Ana Rita; Tolonen, Hanna; Nunes, BaltazarFunding Information: The authors are grateful to all the professionals that were involved in the INSEF and INS2014 fieldwork and to all the INSEF and the INS2014 participants. Funding Information: No specific funding was received for this study. The Portuguese National Health Examination Survey 2013–2017 (INSEF) was developed as part of the Pre-defined project of the Public Health Initiatives Program, “Improvem...
Creating a scientific solution
Lyshol, Heidi; Gil, Ana Paula; Tolonen, Hanna; Namorado, Sónia; Kislaya, Irina; Barreto, Marta; Antunes, Liliana; Santos, Ana J.; Rodrigues, Ana PUIDB/04647/2020 UIDP/04647/2020; Background Participation rates in health surveys, recognized as an important quality dimension, have been declining over the years, which may affect representativeness and confidence in results. The Portuguese national health examination survey INSEF (2015) achieved a participation rate of 43.9%, which is in line with participation rates from other similar health examination sur...
Collecting Valid and Reliable Data
Kislaya, Irina; Santos, Ana João; Lyshol, Heidi; Antunes, Liliana; Barreto, Marta; Gaio, Vânia; Gil, Ana Paula; Namorado, Sónia; Dias, Carlos MatiasUIDB/04647/2020 UIDP/04647/2020; Health surveys constitute a relevant information source to access the population's health status. Given that survey errors can significantly influence estimates and invalidate study findings, it is crucial that the fieldwork progress is closely monitored to ensure data quality. The objective of this study was to describe the fieldwork monitoring conducted during the first Portug...