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The INEQ-CITIES Project aimed to study socio-economic inequalities in health and mortality in 16 European cities at the beginning of the 21st century. A further aim was to identify and compare the social and health policies undertaken in these cities (including policies that use structural funds from the European Union) to address inequalities in health, in order to contribute to the improvement of methods to tackle urban health inequality.
The specific objectives of the INEQ-CITIES Project are:
- To collect socio-economic and mortality data (over a span of 5 - 10 years centred around 2005) necessary to construct socio-economic and mortality indicators of the small areas of the European cities involved in INEQ-CITIES.
- To estimate inequalities in socio-economic indicators in the small areas of these cities.
- To estimate inequalities in mortality indicators across the small areas of the cities and to analyse the relationships between mortality and socio-economic indicators at the small area level.
- To estimate inequalities in avoidable mortality indicators across the small areas of the cities and to analyse the relationships between avoidable mortality and socio-economic indicators at the small area level.
- To describe mortality inequalities across small areas taking into account men and women alongside children and working age populations.
- To collect information related to interventions to tackle inequalities in health that are undertaken in the cities included in INEQ-CITIES and to describe the interventions reviewed.
- To collect information on social and health interventions to tackle inequalities in health that use structural funds of the European Union in the cities included in INEQ-CITIES and to describe the interventions reviewed.
- To make recommendations on the information and indicators necessary for monitoring and tackling inequalities in health at the city level and to make recommendations on the policies to tackle inequalities in health to be undertaken at the city and small area level.
