Welcome
From 2007, more than half of the world’s population will be living in cities. The health needs of urban dwellers, and the ability to monitor urban health will become a high priority. The EU Public Health Programme work plan 2005 identified the development of an urban health indicator system as an essential part of a comprehensive and integrated EU health information and knowledge system.
Based on this, EURO-URHIS 2 is developing, testing and validating a set of comparable urban health indicators (building upon the work already completed by the ECHI project) in 30 cities across the European Union, using newly developed health interview surveys, mortality statistics and other routinely available data