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Policy context and aim of the seminar Rudi Van Dam FPS Social Security

Estimating social inequalities in Healthy Life Expectancy: Cha llenges and opportunities Brussels, February 10 th 2012. Policy context and aim of the seminar Rudi Van Dam FPS Social Security. What are we talking about? What is the policy context Why this seminar?.

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Policy context and aim of the seminar Rudi Van Dam FPS Social Security

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  1. Estimating social inequalities in Healthy Life Expectancy: Challenges and opportunitiesBrussels, February 10th 2012 Policy context and aim of the seminar Rudi Van Dam FPS Social Security

  2. What are we talking about? • What is the policy context • Why this seminar?

  3. What are we talking about?

  4. A brief description an indicator • of the number of years people can expect to live • in good health at different ages, • AND the differences in this expectation between different socio-economic status groups

  5. Some results HLY by SES at 25, male, 2004, BE (Van Oyen et.al.2011)

  6. Some results (cont.) • HLY by SES at 25, females, 2004, BE (Van Oyen et. al. 2011)

  7. Policy relevance • Health and long-term care policy • Social inclusion policy • Pension policy • Labour Market situation of older workers (cf. EMCO indicator on ‘Duration of working life’: based on life expectancy and LFS labour force status)

  8. What is the policy context?

  9. Together For Health: European Health Strategy 2008-2013 • Principles • HLY as economic, productive factor. Also linked to labour market participation (White Paper) • Linked to the values of equity and solidarity (commission staff working doc. accompanying white paper) • Objectives • Healthy ageing as key strategic objective

  10. SOLIDARITY IN HEALTH:REDUCING HEALTH INEQUALITIES IN THE EU (Commission Communication 2009) ‘The healthy life years indicator is the current measure to monitor progress on the Lisbon agenda in relation to the health dimension. Consideration could be given to whether a sound monitoring of health inequalities indicators would be a useful tool to monitorits social dimension.’

  11. Europe 2020 flagship initiative: European Innovation Partnership on active and healthy ageing • Objective: ‘to add, by 2020, two healthy life years to the average healthy life span of European citizens’

  12. Social OMC June 2011 EPSCO Council • endorsed SPC opinion on a reinvigorated socialOMC • Re-affirmed objectives in three strands (social inclusion, pensions, health and long term care) • Health objective (1):access for all to adequate health and long-term care and that the need for care does not lead to poverty and financial dependency; and that inequities in access to care and in health outcomes are addressed • Further work on indicators, incl. HLY by SES

  13. European Year of active ageing (2012) • Active ageing is defined by the World Health Organization as the process of optimizing opportunities for health, participation and security in order to enhance quality of life as people age. • One of the objectives: ‘tackling ill health in older ages’. • ‘While life expectancy in Europe is increasing, the trends for the number of years people live in good health (healthy life years) are more divergent, with the situation in some countries in the EU15 getting worse (Comm. Staff work. Doc)

  14. National Level: Federal government agreement • Improve acces to health care for everyone (chapter on health care policy) • Attention for inequalities in health care (Chapter on social integration)

  15. Why this seminar?

  16. In general • Key social policy indicator, but yet underexploited • Momentum to enhance development and visibility

  17. Concrete • Discus research project to construct indicator of good quality on regular basis • Inform (potential) users of state of play concerning indicator

  18. Have an interesting seminar !

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