Source: EuroHealthNet
On Thursday 25 September and Friday 26 September, EuroHealthNet will launch its landmark report, Social Inequalities in Health in the EU. The report has been developed in collaboration with the Centre for Health Equity Analytics (CHAIN).
This trend study, based on data from the European Social Survey in 2014 and 2024, provides the most detailed picture to date of social inequalities in health across Europe over the past ten years. It shows health and mental health outcomes across groups with different levels of education and occupation, and how these outcomes have changed over the past 10 years. The report also presents examples of promising actions from across Europe and provides recommendations for EU and national policymakers.
The findings are a call to action. Rising living costs, climate change, employment insecurity, and environmental degradation are widening social inequalities in health and undermining physical and mental wellbeing.
Addressing these determinants of health is essential for protecting Europe’s social model, ensuring health as a human right, as well as fostering healthier, more resilient, and more productive societies.
The report will be launched in two parts: a live-streamed, high-level debate in the European Parliament on 25 September from 13.00 – 15.00 CEST and a webinar on country-level data and measures on 26 September from 10.00 – 12.30 CEST.
Agenda and registration for the high-level debate in the European Parliament