IMCA II-Indicators for Monitoring Copd and Asthma in the EU II

Duration

2006-2009

Coordinator

Enric Duran Taularia

Funded by

European Union

IMCA Group is an international network integrated by epidemiologists, public health specialists and clinicians interested on the epidemiology, clinical management and health care policy issues related to major chronic respiratory diseases.

The group was initially created to develop the project “Indicators for Monitoring COPD and asthma in the EU (IMCA I)” funded by the European Commission. The overall aim of the project was to get a consensus among clinicians and researchers in the field of respiratory diseases, representatives from international organizations (i.e. WHO Europe) and scientific societies (i.e. ERS and EACCI) on a proposal for a set of indicators to monitor COPD and asthma in al EU Member States.

The result of this project has contributed to the framework and proposals of the European Community Health Indicators (ECHI) project and to the proposals set up by DG-SANCO in the Public Health Programme (2003-2008) to build a “European System of Information and knowledge on Major Chronic Diseases”.

The funding of the new project IMCA II allowed us to expand the initial network with new partners from other countries and also is making possible the development new objectives focused on data collection and to the development of new technologies for monitoring chronic respiratory diseases.