Review of Health Examination Surveys in Europe.

Abstract

Information on the health, health risks and use of health services and medicines of the population are needed for planning and evaluating health policies and health care. Typical data sources for health information are various registers, such as mortality registers for total and cause-specific mortality and population surveys, which provide a cross-section of health and its determinants in the population. Different data sources provide information on different aspects of health, and therefore they are largely complementary.