title: Adding value to figures: a web-based European public health information system.
abstract: In 2008 a prototype, web-based system was launched which provided information for different user groups interested in European public health topics. The EUPHIX system contained scientifically sound data, with presentations as well as textual information. The information was structured according to the European Community Health Indicators (ECHI) shortlist. The information included different types of data presentations (tables, interactive graphs and maps), explanatory texts and overviews of the data sources and the literature used. The content was produced by a network of European experts according to a structured, peer-reviewed editorial process. Thus EUPHIX provided an easily accessible, comprehensive, state-of-the-art information source. To ensure that it will continue, financial support will be needed. Co-ownership by the European Commission and the Member States seems an appropriate solution.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Public Health Forecasting, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, PO Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands. Eveline.van.der.Wilk@rivm.nl
authors.forename: Eveline A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: van der Wilk
authors.forename: Marieke
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Verschuuren
mesh_terms: D003628:Database Management Systems; D005060:Europe; D005062:European Union; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods*; D007256:Information Systems; D020407:Internet; D011634:Public Health; D040442:Public Health Informatics; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D057188:Workflow