Objectives
Objectives
EuroMOMO's weekly monitoring serves as an early warning system, enabling rapid assessments of public health threats to support policymaking and crisis management. The system compares the observed number of deaths with the expected number and includes quality checks, correction for reporting delays, and the identification and reporting of patterns of elevated mortality.
In addition, the different components of the monitoring are continuously revised, and retrospective analyses are carried out for periods showing signs of increased mortality, often in connection with influenza.
Collaboration
EuroMOMO works closely with the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe.
Since 2023, the EuroMOMO Hub has been funded through the ECDC project "Excess Mortality Monitoring in Europe to Assess the Impact of Communicable Diseases."
International Cooperation
EuroMOMO aims to strengthen European capacity to monitor and respond to serious public health risks including seasonal or emerging infections and environmental hazards, by coordinating timely mortality data collection and analysis across Europe using a standardized framework. This ensures comparability of findings between countries.
National Support
The EuroMOMO Hub provides training and technical assistance to participating countries, helping them generate, analyze, and use mortality data for risk assessments. Countries can also receive support in establishing their own national mortality surveillance systems.
Additional projects
FluMOMO
The FluMOMO model estimates mortality attributable to influenza and extreme temperatures by explaining variations in deaths through a baseline, influenza activity, and temperatures.
FluMOMO v4.2 is available as an R package
Weather data can be acquired upon request to the EuroMOMO hub.