The project EUROCHIP is one of the 46 projects of the Health Monitoring Programme HMP.

The European Commission’s Health Monitoring Programme (HMP), established in 1997, has the objective ‘to contribute to the establishment of a Community health monitoring system’:

It is an intellectual work involving all those that may contribute with their competence.

1. Measure health status, its determinants and the trends therein throughout the Community;
2. Facilitate the planning, monitoring and evaluation of Community Programs and actions;
3. Provide Member States with appropriate health infomation to make comparisons and support their national health policies.

•Pillars:

1. Establishment of Community health indicators;
2. Development of a Community network for sharing health data;
3. Analyses and reporting.