New content

A new version (1.6) of the EUPHIX website has now been released. In this new version the following EC Health Indicators, EUphacts and EUphoci have been added in an internally edited state:

EC Health Indicators

• Healthy life expectancy;
• Disease-specific mortality;
• Suicide attempt;
• Physicians employed;
• Nurses employed;
• Population by gender/age; and
• Population projections

EUphacts

• Alcohol use; and
• Alcohol policies

EUphoci

• Children's Health and the Environment (prepared by the ENHIS project); and
• Mental Health in the EU EUphocus (one document Mental health determinants)

The following two existing EUphacts have now also been externally peer reviewed and have been edited accordingly:

• Smoking; and
• Smoking policies

The next EUPHIX website release is planned for May 2008.

New features

EUPHIX now also has two additional features:

• a newsletter that can be subscribed to via News
• the possibility to download an Excel file with the data that has been used to create the interactive figures. This can be accessed by clicking on ‘Export to Excel’, once you have opened the interactive figure browser. Please also note the option to select your preferred decimal separator (a comma or decimal point).