Through its research and surveillance systems, it provides reliable information about the population’s state of health, health determinants and risk prediction indicators, which allows public authorities to build their prevention and healthcare finance projects and to evaluate the effectiveness of these. It identifies the health services resource requirements and carries out healthcare economic analysis.
PRESENTATION
Established in 2004 the Centre for Health Studies is made up of several units which each have their own public health service mission:
- Epidemiology and Public Health ,
- Systems Analysis and Health Services ,
- Health Web Portal ,
- European Medicines Agency .
Some of its activities are financed by state authorities such as the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Social Security and the National Health Office.
At the same time, the Centre for Health Studies launches research projects funded by Public Health Executive Agency, the National Research Fund or the Ministry for Higher Education and Research. Today it holds the leadership of a European project (Eurolight) and of two INTERREG projects: NESCAV (Nutrition, Environment and Cardio-Vascular Health) and PPSM (Promotion and Prevention of Mental Health). It is also a partner in the EDUDORA2 project (Therapeutic Education on At Risk Obesity in Adults and Adolescents).
The Centre for Health Studies is developing shared research projects with several CRP-Santé research organisations, such as the Laboratory of Analytical Human Biomonitoring and the Laboratory of Cardiovascular Research, as well as the University of Luxembourg's INSIDE Laboratory.
It works with hospitals, clinicians, professional associations and patient associations on a daily basis. It provides support for hospital doctors to carry out clinical epidemiology studies.
Today, the Centre for Health Studies concomitantly manages a total of 30 research, study or development projects.
In order to continue its development, it has forged close relations with several universities and public health research centres in Europe as well as with the WHO.