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PURPOSE: to
establish a common framework for the systematic production of Community
statistics on public health and health and safety at work. LEGISLATIVE
ACT: Regulation (EC) No 1338/2008 of the European
Parliament and of the Council on Community statistics on public health and
health and safety at work. CONTENT: this Regulation establishes a common framework for the systematic production
of Community statistics on public health and health and safety at work. The
statistics must be produced in compliance with standards on impartiality,
reliability, objectivity, cost-effectiveness and statistical confidentiality. They must
include, in the form of a harmonised and common data set, information
required for Community action in the field of public health, for supporting
national strategies for the development of high-quality, universally
accessible and sustainable health care as well as for Community action in the
field of health and safety at work. The statistics
must provide data for structural indicators, sustainable development
indicators and European Community Health Indicators (ECHI), as well as for
the other sets of indicators which it is necessary to develop for the purpose
of monitoring Community actions in the fields of public health and health and
safety at work. Scope: the domains concerned are defined in detail in the Annexes and
cover the following: health status and health determinants; health care;
causes of death; accidents at work; and occupational diseases and other
work-related health problems and illnesses. ENTRY INTO FORCE : 20/01/2009.
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