WHOChild Growth Standards

health monitoring projects. This thematic strand sets the objective of establishing

and operating a sustainable health monitoring system. The system aims at produc-
ing comparable information on health and health-related behavior of the European

population, on diseases and health systems.
This will be based on European-wide common agreed indicators with regard to
their definition, data collection, and use [9]. The system is to be established on the
basis of the previous work in former Community Health Programmes and will now
be continued intensively under the new Public Health Programme, which starts in
2007 and runs till 2013. The new Public Health Programme will substitute the old
programme (2003–2008).