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Monitoring Health Inequalities in 12 European Countries: Lessons Learned from the Joint Action Health Equity Europe

To raise awareness about health inequalities, a well-functioning health inequality monitoring system (HIMS) is crucial. Drawing on work conducted under the Joint Action Health Equity Europe, the aim of this paper is to illustrate the strengths and weaknesses in current health inequality monitoring b...

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Autores principales: Högberg, Pi, Henriksson, Göran, Borrell, Carme, Ciutan, Marius, Costa, Giuseppe, Georgiou, Irene, Halik, Rafal, Hoebel, Jens, Kilpeläinen, Katri, Kyprianou, Theopisti, Lesnik, Tina, Petrauskaite, Indre, Ruijsbroek, Annemarie, Scintee, Silvia Gabriela, Vasic, Milena, Olsson, Gabriella
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9265987/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35805322
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19137663
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author Högberg, Pi
Henriksson, Göran
Borrell, Carme
Ciutan, Marius
Costa, Giuseppe
Georgiou, Irene
Halik, Rafal
Hoebel, Jens
Kilpeläinen, Katri
Kyprianou, Theopisti
Lesnik, Tina
Petrauskaite, Indre
Ruijsbroek, Annemarie
Scintee, Silvia Gabriela
Vasic, Milena
Olsson, Gabriella
author_facet Högberg, Pi
Henriksson, Göran
Borrell, Carme
Ciutan, Marius
Costa, Giuseppe
Georgiou, Irene
Halik, Rafal
Hoebel, Jens
Kilpeläinen, Katri
Kyprianou, Theopisti
Lesnik, Tina
Petrauskaite, Indre
Ruijsbroek, Annemarie
Scintee, Silvia Gabriela
Vasic, Milena
Olsson, Gabriella
author_sort Högberg, Pi
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description To raise awareness about health inequalities, a well-functioning health inequality monitoring system (HIMS) is crucial. Drawing on work conducted under the Joint Action Health Equity Europe, the aim of this paper is to illustrate the strengths and weaknesses in current health inequality monitoring based on lessons learned from 12 European countries and to discuss what can be done to strengthen their capacities. Fifty-five statements were used to collect information about the status of the capacities at different steps of the monitoring process. The results indicate that the preconditions for monitoring vary greatly between countries. The availability and quality of data are generally regarded as strong, as is the ability to disaggregate data by age and gender. Regarded as poorer is the ability to disaggregate data by socioeconomic factors, such as education and income, or by other measures of social position, such as ethnicity. Few countries have a proper health inequality monitoring strategy in place and, where in place, it is often regarded as poorly up to date with policymakers’ needs. These findings suggest that non-data-related issues might be overlooked aspects of health inequality monitoring. Structures for stakeholder involvement and communication that attracts attention from policymakers are examples of aspects that deserve more effort.
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spelling pubmed-92659872022-07-09 Monitoring Health Inequalities in 12 European Countries: Lessons Learned from the Joint Action Health Equity Europe Högberg, Pi Henriksson, Göran Borrell, Carme Ciutan, Marius Costa, Giuseppe Georgiou, Irene Halik, Rafal Hoebel, Jens Kilpeläinen, Katri Kyprianou, Theopisti Lesnik, Tina Petrauskaite, Indre Ruijsbroek, Annemarie Scintee, Silvia Gabriela Vasic, Milena Olsson, Gabriella Int J Environ Res Public Health Article To raise awareness about health inequalities, a well-functioning health inequality monitoring system (HIMS) is crucial. Drawing on work conducted under the Joint Action Health Equity Europe, the aim of this paper is to illustrate the strengths and weaknesses in current health inequality monitoring based on lessons learned from 12 European countries and to discuss what can be done to strengthen their capacities. Fifty-five statements were used to collect information about the status of the capacities at different steps of the monitoring process. The results indicate that the preconditions for monitoring vary greatly between countries. The availability and quality of data are generally regarded as strong, as is the ability to disaggregate data by age and gender. Regarded as poorer is the ability to disaggregate data by socioeconomic factors, such as education and income, or by other measures of social position, such as ethnicity. Few countries have a proper health inequality monitoring strategy in place and, where in place, it is often regarded as poorly up to date with policymakers’ needs. These findings suggest that non-data-related issues might be overlooked aspects of health inequality monitoring. Structures for stakeholder involvement and communication that attracts attention from policymakers are examples of aspects that deserve more effort. MDPI 2022-06-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9265987/ /pubmed/35805322 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19137663 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Henriksson, Göran
Borrell, Carme
Ciutan, Marius
Costa, Giuseppe
Georgiou, Irene
Halik, Rafal
Hoebel, Jens
Kilpeläinen, Katri
Kyprianou, Theopisti
Lesnik, Tina
Petrauskaite, Indre
Ruijsbroek, Annemarie
Scintee, Silvia Gabriela
Vasic, Milena
Olsson, Gabriella
Monitoring Health Inequalities in 12 European Countries: Lessons Learned from the Joint Action Health Equity Europe
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title_short Monitoring Health Inequalities in 12 European Countries: Lessons Learned from the Joint Action Health Equity Europe
title_sort monitoring health inequalities in 12 european countries: lessons learned from the joint action health equity europe
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9265987/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35805322
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19137663
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