InfAct publications

The outcomes of InfAct are relevant to share with the wider health information and research community, through the following publications published in scientific journals:

• European Core Health Indicators - status and perspectives
   
• Finding political support and sustainability beyond EU health information projects
   
• The new Joint Action on Health Information: information for action (InfAct)!
   
• Establishing targeted EU capacity building actions in health information
   
• Health information tools for a European Health Information System
   
• Prioritizing Health Information in Europe – What do we want and need to know?
   
• Prioritising health information needs in Europe: a Policy Delphi survey
   
• How can we strengthen the impact of national health information systems in policy and practice?
   
• Use of non-health EU databases for health surveillance. En-risk application
   
• Towards an EU sustainable health information infrastructure. Integrating technical and political views and interest
   
• Hospital admissions/mortality ratio: a composite health indicator for monitoring NCD
   
• Developing recommendations for good practice in national health reporting
   
• Methodological guidelines to estimate population-based health indicators using linked data and/or machine learning techniques
   
• Mapping European research networks providing health data: Results from the InfAct Joint Action on Health Information
   
• EU health information progress: the harvest of policy supporting projects and networks
   
• Enablers and barriers to the secondary use of health data in Europe: a GDPR perspective
   
• Coping with interoperability in the development of a federated research infrastructure: achievements, challenges and recommendations from the JA InfAct
   
• Integrating technical and political views for a sustainable European Distributed Infrastructure on Population Health
   
• Overview of national health reporting in the EU and quality criteria for public health reports – Results of the Joint Action InfAct
   
• Towards a sustainable set of European Core Health Indicators
   
• Recommendations to plan a national burden of disease study
   
• Cross-national comparisons of health indicators require standardized definitions and common data sources
   
• Evaluation of the European Health Information Training Programme (EHITP): Results from InfAct Joint Action
   
• The InfAct proposal for a sustainable European health information infrastructure on population health: the Distributed Infrastructure on Population Health (DIPoH)
   
• Comparison of metabolic syndrome prevalence using four different definitions – a population-based study in Finland
   
• Prioritizing health information for national health reporting - a Delphi study of the Joint Action on Health Information (InfAct)
   
• Innovative use of data sources: a cross-sectional study of data linkage and artificial intelligence practices across European countries
   
• Use of artificial intelligence for public health surveillance: a case study to develop a machine Learning-algorithm to estimate the incidence of diabetes mellitus in France
   
• Health data collection methods and procedures across EU member states: findings from the Infact Joint Action on Health Information
   
• Capacity building in European health information systems: the InfAct peer assessment methodology