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Final report available for download!

September 20, 2007 - Follow-up to the previous message: Some names were missing in the list of contributors. This has now been corrected. Once again, our sincere apologies for this.

August 20, 2007 - We are very pleased to announce that the final report is available for download! Once again thank you very much to all who made this possible.

You can download the report (file size about 6 MB) by clicking [HERE].

Minutes of second plenary workshop available!

April 5, 2007 - The minutes of the second plenary Eurothine workshop, held in Rotterdam, The Netherlands on March 22-23, 2007 are available. They can be downloaded under "Project Meetings". Also, the DOC (MS Word 2000) versions of the draft papers are available for download under "* Interim Results".

More on the plenary workshop in Rotterdam

March 20, 2007 - The overview document of the papers for the plenary meeting that was distributed by e-mail is now also available online. Go to "Interim results". Remember that you need to log in first!

March 2, 2007 - A "survival kit" for your stay in Rotterdam can be downloaded by clicking on the link below. It contains maps, information on trains on metros and hotel information.
Rotterdam_survival_kit.pdf 982.87 KB

March workshop in Rotterdam

January 25, 2007 - The second general consortium meeting of the project on tackling health inequalities in will be held in Rotterdam, The Netherlands on March 22-23, 2007. Please contact us if you feel you should have received an invitation but did not receive one.

A large series of draft papers containing many new and interesting results is being prepared. The main purpose of the forthcoming meeting is to discuss the preliminary results among a wide audience of interested colleagues. The ultimate aim of these discussions will be to develop a series of evidence-based recommendations for policies to reduce health inequalities in European countries.

Minutes & Presentations November Meeting

December 12, 2006 - The Minutes and the Powerpoint presentations of the Rotterdam meeting (November 2006) are now available and can be downloaded under:
          Project meetings > * Steering committee November 2006

Lone motherhood & Occupational class document

October 11, 2006 - The Barcelona group's contribution about the effects of motherhood and occupational class on health and health behaviors can be found under:

       * Interim results > WP X: labour markets and welfare states

Version 3.1 of documentation + updated data files

September 26, 2006 - IMPORTANT UPDATE! An updated version 3.1 of the documentation can be downloaded. Difference with documentation version 3.0 is that the codings of variable EDUCAT have changed for the countries NOR, FIN, DEN. The updated data files (which also have version ID 3.1) have been distributed by e-mail.

See under: Technical documents > Data specifications documents

Educational inequalities in health: complete overview (XLS)

August 29, 2006 - The Excel sheet on inequalities in health based on EUROTHINE data can be downloaded under * Technical documents > Data specifications documents, under the heading
"Educational inequalities in health: complete overview".

New release of survey data + documentation!

July 10-11 2006 - Version 3 of the health survey data and its documentation has been released!
The documentation is can be downloaded from this site.

It can be found under: Technical documents > Data specifications documents

Syntaxes for PRR, RII and country weights

July 5, 2006 - SAS and SPSS syntax for the calculation of country weights, Prevalence Rate Ratios (PRR) and Relative Index of Inequality (RII) were added. They can be found under: * Technical documents > SPSS and SAS syntaxes

Interim results

June 21, 2006 - Available interim results have been uploaded.

Powerpoint presentations and minutes uploaded

May 19, 2006 - The minutes and the powerpoint presentations from the Barcelona meeting can be downloaded from:
Home > Project meetings > * Steering committee May 2006
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Barcelona Meeting on May 11-12, 2006

March 24, 2006 - The next Eurothine meeting will be in Barcelona and is due to be held on May 11-12, 2006. The agenda and other relevant documents will appear on this website shortly. See also under 'Project Meetings'.

Second release of data and documentation

April 24, 2006 - The second batch survey and the mortality data were released, including their documentation. Hungarian, French and German data were added. Many (small) glitches were removed.

The documentation can be downloaded from:
Technical documents (Generic WP) > Data specifications documents
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Release of data and documentation

March 16, 2006 - The survey and the mortality data were released, including their documentation. Let the analyses commence!
The documentation can be downloaded from:
Technical documents (Generic WP) > Data specifications documents
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