-- Name -- Disease -- Definition -- Statistical information related to pathologies linked directly or indirectly to the quality of environment. -- Description -- Statistical information related to diseases, health-related conditions and external causes of disease and injury, as classified in the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision (ICD-10). For practical reasons, a short term ‘disease’ is used to label all conditions covered by this definition.
-- Name -- Biomarker -- Definition -- A biomarker (of exposure) is the concentration of a chemical, its metabolite or the product of an interaction between a chemical and some target molecule or cell that is measured in a compartment in an organism.
-- Name -- General health statistic -- Definition -- Numbers about some aspects of health related to a population or an area. For the purpose of this data model, 'general health' data include issues such as self-perceived health, demographic distribution of various health problems, smokers, etc., expressed as raw numbers, rates, percentage, stratified by gender, age, and/or socio-economic, cultural, ethnic or other factors.
-- Name -- Health services statistic -- Definition -- Type of health care indicator.
-- Name -- Health statistical data -- Definition -- Human health related data, from recorded diseases and related health problems (according to internationally accepted code lists, such as ICD-10), expressed as morbidity and mortality, to data on general health status (BMI, self perceived health, etc.), data on health care services (health care expenditure, day cases, etc.), and data on biomarkers; these are statistical indices aggregated at different statistical units, collected/reported in different population groups. Inclusion of human biomonitoring data provides an opportunity to explore potential direct or indirect links between human health and the environment.
-- Name -- environmental health determinant statistical data -- Definition -- A statistical data of interest for human health determinant analysis, resulting from the aggregation of raw measurements located within a statistical unit.
-- Name -- environmental health determinant measure -- Definition -- A raw measurement performed at some place that is of interest for human health determinant analysis.