Dear colleagues,

This is a reminder of the Join the Network meeting on Friday 12 November. The meeting takes place as a zoom meeting between 10.10 and 11.10 CET:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83764855783?pwd=TU1mU25BYkRKSjh5TTVoaldxZFRmdz09

At the meeting, we will share information and discuss next year’s activities and in particular the pre-conference program. The steering group has three suggestions and we look forward to hear your opinions on this. Which one of these would you prefer?

1. Social security systems in Europe – how well do they protect the individual from economic burden and poverty risks?
   1. Social security systems appear in different forms. The Covid-19 pandemic showed that such systems are important to facilitate preventive restrictions in the working population. However, will they be effective also in the future and continue to do what they are intended to do: protect people from economic crisis and poverty risks on top of health problems. With this pre-conference suggestion, we plan a collaboration with the EUPHA section for public health economics.
2. Changing work life in Europe – how will the new work life with temporary employments, gig workers and other types of precarious employment affect health and social security?
   1. Work life is rapidly changing in Europe and more people work in precarious employment characterized by insecure employment, absence of insurances and social security, small opportunities to career development to mention some aspects of these employments. Precarious employment is not equally distributed in the general population and in this pre-conference suggestion the precarious situation as such will be discussed but also the unequal distribution over population groups and geographic areas.
3. Methods to measure sickness absence and disability pension in longitudinal studies.
   1. There are a number of methods and analyses available in statistics and epidemiology to use in longitudinal studies. Prospective, longitudinal study designs are important to come closer causal inferences, which in turn enables the development of prevention in the field of work and social security. This pre-conference suggestion will present some recent development in measures and statistical analyses, and discuss how the interpretation can contribute to better understanding of causality.

New members are welcome at the meeting so you can send the link to a colleague that you think would be interested. However, note this advice from the EUPHA office:

Please share the Zoom link with your section subscribers, but please do not share the link on social media as this will draw in people that do not mean well.

The steering group is looking forward to meeting you all on Friday.

Best regards,
Gunnel Hensing, Section president,

University of Goteborg, Sweden

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