Volume 30, Issue 4, August 2020

EDITORIALS
Re-thinking health inequalities
Johan P Mackenbach
The corona crisis and the need for public health foresight studies

Bo Burström, Wenjing Tao

VIEWPOINTS
Is lack of causal evidence linking socioeconomic position with health an ‘inconvenient truth’?
Olle Lundberg
What should we think about widening relative inequalities in health?
Alastair H. Leyland
Health inequalities: the role of work and employment
Johannes Siegrist
Economic and social context needs to be taken into account
Ramune Kalediene
Re-thinking health inequalities is necessary
Johan P Mackenbach
EU health law and policy in and after the COVID-19 crisis
Scott Greer, Anniek de Ruijter
Will COVID-19 lead to a major change of the EU Public Health mandate? A renewed approach to EU’s role is needed
Timo Clemens, Helmut Brand
The EU and the social determinants of health in a post-COVID world
Aaron Reeves
Is the COVID-19 pandemic turning into a European food crisis?
Veronica Toffolutti, David Stuckler, Martin McKee

HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
The relationship between physical activity and out-of-pocket health care costs of the elderly in Europe
Sören Dallmeyer, Pamela Wicker, Christoph Breuer
Why do people not switch insurer in a market-based health insurance market? Empirical evidence from the Netherlands
Wouter van der Schors, Anne E M Brabers, Judith D de Jong
Janneke W Duijster, Simone D A Doreleijers, Eva Pilot, Wim van der Hoek, Geert Jan Kommer, Marianne A B van der Sande, Thomas Krafft, Liselotte C H I van Asten
How can we monitor the impact of national health information systems? Results from a scoping review
Marie Delnord, F Tille, L A Abboud, D Ivankovic, H Van Oyen

HEALTH POLICY
EDITOR'S CHOICE
Bringing the commercial determinants of health out of the shadows: a review of how the commercial determinants are represented in conceptual frameworks
Nason Maani, Jeff Collin, Sharon Friel, Anna B Gilmore, Jim McCambridge, Lindsay Robertson, Mark P Petticrew
The impact of social prescribing services on service users: a systematic review of the evidence
Julia V Pescheny, Gurch Randhawa, Yannis Pappas
Do parties make a difference? A review of partisan effects on health and the welfare state
Michelle Falkenbach, Marleen Bekker, Scott L Greer
Education and training in public health: is there progress in the European region? Ulrich Laaser, Vesna Bjegovic-Mikanovic, Dejana Vukovic, Helmut Wenzel, Robert Otok, Katarzyna Czabanowska

CHILD AND ADOLESCENT HEALTH
Change in prevalence of self-harm from 2002 to 2018 among Norwegian adolescents
Anita J Tørmoen, Martin Myhre, Fredrik A Walby, Berit Grøholt, Ingeborg Rossow
Child health research and planning in Europe disadvantaged by major gaps and disparities in published statistics
Michael J Rigby, Shalmali Deshpande, Mitch E Blair
Factors associated with the uptake of the UK routine childhood immunization schedule in a bi-ethnic population
 Gillian Santorelli, Jane West, Dan Mason, Chris Cartwright, Leena Inamdar, Caroline Tomes, John Wright
Understanding rapid infant weight gain prevention: a systematic review of quantitative and qualitative evidence
Torill A Rotevatn, G J Melendez-Torres, Charlotte Overgaard, Kimberly Peven, Jane Hyldgaard Nilsen, Henrik Bøggild, Anna Marie Balling Høstgaard
Engaging adolescents in developing health education interventions: a multidisciplinary pilot project
 Irene Psaroudakis, Filippo Quattrone, Lara Tavoschi, Erica De Vita, Silvia Cervia, Rita Biancheri, Pietro Luigi Lopalco

AGING AND HEALTH
The dynamics of frailty and change in socio-economic conditions: evidence for the 65+ in Europe
Nicolas Sirven, Magali Dumontet, Thomas Rapp
Quality of collaboration and information handovers in palliative care: a survey study on the perspectives of nurses in the Southwest Region of the Netherlands
Marijanne Engel, Andrée van der Ark, Rosanne Tamerus, Agnes van der Heide

SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
Caesarean delivery and the use of antidepressants
Anikó Bíró, Péter Elek
Sexual health services in community pharmacy for women on opioid substitution treatment: a qualitative study
 Laura Medina-Perucha, Jenny Scott, Sarah Chapman, Julie Barnett, Charlotte Dack, Hannah Family
Infection-associated hospitalizations of women in labourKatarzyna Kopeć-Godlewska, Agnieszka Pac, Anna Różańska, Paweł Żbikowski, Jerzy Rosiński, Jadwiga Wojkowska-Mach
Association between place of delivery for pregnant mothers and neonatal mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Eshetu E Chaka, Mulugeta Mekurie, Ahmed Abdulahi Abdurahman, Mahboubeh Parsaeian, Reza Majdzadeh
The effects of continuity of care on the health of mother and child in the postnatal period: a systematic review
Florence D’haenens, Bart Van Rompaey, Eva Swinnen, Tinne Dilles, Katrien Beeckman

MENTAL HEALTH
The effect of the 2008 recession on well-being and employment status of people with and without mental health problems
Unnur Jónsdóttir, Edda Björk þórðardóttir, Thor Aspelund, þórarinn Jónmundsson, Kristjana Einarsdóttir
Inequalities in the economic consequences of depression and anxiety in Europe: a systematic scoping review
Anna Linder, Ulf-G. Gerdtham, Nadja Trygg, Sara Fritzell, Sanjib Saha
Prolonged mental health sequelae among doctors and nurses involved in patient safety incidents with formal complaints and lawsuits
Gerda Zeeman, Loes Schouten, Deborah Seys, Ellen Coeckelberghs, Philomeen Weijenborg, Luk Bruyneel, Kris Vanhaecht

MIGRATION
The perception of youth health centres’ friendliness: does it differ between immigrant and Swedish-Scandinavian youths?
Mazen Baroudi, Miguel San Sebastian, Anna-Karin Hurtig, Isabel Goicolea
Evidences supporting the inclusion of immigrants in the universal healthcare coverage
Albert Prats-Uribe, Sílvia Brugueras, Dolors Comet, Dolores Álamo-Junquera, LLuïsa Ortega Gutiérrez, Àngels Orcau, Joan A Caylà, Joan-Pau Millet

WORK AND HEALTH
High mortality in manual occupations and the role of alcohol in 2001–15
Giorgio Di Gessa, Laurie Corna, Debora Price, Karen Glaser
Relationships between informal caregiving, health and work in the Health and Employment After Fifty study, England 
 E Clare Harris, Stefania D’Angelo, Holly E Syddall, Cathy Linaker, Cyrus Cooper, Karen Walker-Bone
Explanations for economic difficulties among old-age pensioners previously on disability pension
Anu Polvinen, Mikko Laaksonen, Juha Rantala, Liisa-Maria Palomäki, Susan Kuivalainen

ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH
Priorities for improving chemicals management in the WHO European Region—stakeholders’ views
Joanne A Vincenten, Irina Zastenskaya, Peter Schröder-Bäck, Dorota Iwona Jarosinska
Wood dust exposure and risks of nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a meta-analysis
 Meng E, Jinzhu Yin, Wu Jin, Yiyang Mao, Qihong Wu, Jun Qiu

CHRONIC DISEASE
Diabetes as a risk factor for severe exacerbation and death in patients with COPD: a prospective cohort study
 Maria T Castañ-Abad, Josep Montserrat-Capdevila, Pere Godoy, Josep R Marsal, Marta Ortega, Miquel Alsedà, Ferran Barbé
Prevalence of three lifestyle factors among Australian adults from 2004 to 2018: an age–period–cohort analysis
Yang Peng, Zhiqiang Wang
The financial burden of non-communicable diseases in the European Union: a systematic review
Désirée Vandenberghe, Johan Albrecht
Glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) as a reliable option for detecting diabetes among the urban poor population in Bangladesh
Chifa Chiang, Atsuko Aoyama, Md Khalequzzaman, Sohel R. Choudhury, Debatosh Paul, Shahrin E. Rayna, Fahmida A. Khan, Yoshihisa Hirakawa, Hiroyasu Iso, Hiroshi Yatsuya

EUROPEAN PUBLIC HEALTH NEWS
European Public Health News
Dineke Zeegers Paget, Iveta Nagyova, Alastair Leyland, Hans Henri P Kluge, Floris Barnhoorn

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