LATEST NEWS ABOUT MORTALITY MONITORING IN EUROPE

The EuroMOMO finished in spring 2011, however weekly mortality monitoring based on the EuroMOMO algorithm is continuing under the name of The European Mortality Monitoring Project. Public outputs are available at pooled output; updated every Friday afternoon.

Continued European mortality monitoring activities until spring 2012 was secured through a successful competitive bid for an ECDC tender. ECDC is presently carrying out a comprehensive assessment of the EuroMOMO project.
Up to 15 countries are currently weekly reporting mortality to the European hub and the network is welcoming any parties interested in joining mortality monitoring.

MONITORING OF MORTALITY

EURO MOMO is a 3 year project coordinated by Statens Serum Institut, Denmark and co-funded by the European Commission (EC), Directorate General for Health and Consumers.
The project has 22 partners from 20 European Countries.
The general objective is to develop and operate a routine public health mortality monitoring system aimed at detecting and measuring, on a real-time basis, excess number of deaths related to influenza and other possible public health threats across European Countries.

Main actions
  • an inventory of existing mortality monitoring systems in European Countries
  • definition of minimal requirements for a mortality monitoring system
  • retrospective analysis of mortality data
  • identification of a uniform analytical approach, and
  • piloting of a consensus system for real-time mortality modeling in several European countries.
Expected outcomes
The project will increase the European capacity to assess and manage risks associated with major health threats, including pandemic influenza and other infectious or non-infectious public health events with a severe impact.

This will, in particular, increase the European capacity to monitor the spread of a future pandemic of influenza, measure its impact on mortality, determine whether changes in mortality are limited to specific countries/areas or occur in more than one member state, and thus enhance the evidence base for risk managers to target interventions and to prioritise resources.




Link to The European Commission website