Fig. 1From: European Core Health Indicators - status and perspectivesHistory of the ECHI process. In 4 consecutive projects, covering the years 1998–2012, the ECHI Shortlist was developed and its implementation was initiated. At the end of this period, the list contained 88 indicators, 67 of which were ready for implementation, 14 were close to ready and 13 were not (at all) ready. ECHI: European Core Health Indicators, known as European Community Indicators before 2013; ECHIM: European Community Indicators Monitoring; JA-ECHIM: Joint Action for ECHIMBack to article page