Dear colleagues,

New president:

I am happy to inform you that professor Ute Bultmann at University of Groningen, the Netherlands, have been elected president of our section. Many of you know Ute and her important work within the fiel of Social security, work and health. Much welcome as the new president Ute! I know you will do an excellent job for our section and wish you all the best for the upcoming years. It has been a pleasure having you as my vice president.

SECTION INFORMATION  for the EPH conference in Berlin

Pre-conference:

Our pre-conference at the EPH conference in Berlin is held on Wednesday 9 November and starts at 09.00 CET. At the end of this mail you find a detailed description for the program. There is still room for some more participants. Spread the information about this interesting and useful pre-conference. 

Join the network meeting

Our JTN meeting will be held Thursday 10 November at 13.50 to 14.50 CET in the Room Alpha 5. Most welcome to meet section members and president Ute Bultmann. We want your ideas and input for the upcoming activities in the SSWH section.

Section workshop

On Friday 11 November 11.40 - 12.40 we have a very interesting workshop titled Precarious employment and its impact on social protections in the EU in room Beta 3.

SECTION INFORMATION

In between conferences meeting:

The future group has decided that the digital in-between conferences meeting will be held at March 14^th 2023. Please, save the date and more information will come. This is an excellent opportunity for young researchers to present their studies.

The Future group of SSWH

Associate professor Emilie Friberg at the Karolinska Insitute, Stockholm has been chairing the Future group of our section. She has now left this position and dr Femke Abma, University of Groningen is her successor. Thank you Emilie for your contribution to the future group. And most welcome to you Femke! Contributions form the future group is much appreciated.

OTHER INFORMATION

Studying cancer and work participation? Check out this link 

https://etendering.ted.europa.eu/cft/cft-display.html?cftId=12432 

HOPE TO SEE YOU ALL IN BERLIN.

Best regards,
Gunnel Hensing
University of Goteborg

PRE-CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Methods in longitudinal studies in social security work and health  

This pre-conference focuses on methods in longitudinal studies on social security, work and health - defining measurements, statistical analyses and ethical issues. As the field of Social security, work and health grows, the methods used are becoming increasingly advanced and sophisticated. This pre-conference will give participants an opportunity to listen to and discuss state-of-the-art presentations of current methodological developments of the field, as well as reflect over some current methodological issues in small-group discussions. The topics range from the detailed level of measurements and statistical techniques, to the broad and conceptual level of ethical and political considerations when researching social security, work and health. 

The pre-conference will combine talks on current methodological developments followed by whole-group discussions on the topics of the presentations, with round-table discussions between participants on current issues.  

Presenters and moderators: Emilie Friberg, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Kristin Farrants, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Femke Abma, University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands; Jurgita Narusyte, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Jan Hoving, Amsterdam UMC, the Netherlands; Merel Schuring, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Chantelle Murley, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Angelique de Rijk, Maastricht University, the Netherlands.  

Pre-conference program

09:00 – 09:20 Welcome and introduction to the day and the first topic (EF, FA) 

09:20-10:05   Core measures of work participation (JH) 

10:05-10:30 Short group discussion and wrap-up (Discussion of what have you missed, what other measures when not interventions etc.  Critical view what does these measures mean) (JH with assistance FA and perhaps EF) 

10:30 – 11:00      Coffee/tea break  

11:00 – 11:30       Different methods for strengthening causal inference based on observational register data in the field of employment and health (MS) 

11:30-11:45  Questions discussion and leg-stretch (MS+moderator) 

11:45-12:15 Causal inference using data on twins (JN) 

12:15-12:30 Questions and discussion (JN +moderator) 

12:30 – 13:30       Lunch break  

13:30 – 15:00       Round-table discussions  on methodological topics  

13:30-14:00 10min introductions of each table except the one from before lunch 

Round table 1: Cultural adaptions of measures/questionnaires and scoring scales´ transferability (FA) 

Round table 2: Statistical methods for investigating individual-level changes over time:  Sequence analyses and group-based trajectory analyses (CM) 

Round table 3:  Different methods for strengthening causal inference based on observational register data in the field of employment and health (MS) 

Round table 4: Legislations across countries and how this affects study populations and  translation of results into practice (AdR) 

Possibility to visit all tables. Approximately 18min per table. 3 tables before the break and one afterwards 

15:00 – 15:30        Coffee/tea break   

15:30 – 15.50 Last table 

15.50-16:50       Wrap-up all table-facilitators wrap up including extra wrap up ethical and political implications, (FA,CM, MS and AdR+ )  

16.50-17.00 General wrap up (EF, FA) 

Dinner at participants’ own cost 

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