[Futuregen] Further contacts with SB members who could not attend kick-off

[rodrigues at euro.centre.org]

Dear Stefan,

Thanks a lot for the reply.
I talked to Sabina Littmann on Friday, but we touched upon this.
The main points Sabina tried to make during our conversation was the 
following:

i) From a policy maker's perspective, there is an interest in relatively 
focused policy recommendations. Simply "improve the socio-economic 
circumstances of women to reduce inequalities in health", for example, 
is too generic to be a tractable policy recommendation. The more focused 
or narrow the policy recommendations, the better.

ii) From the above follows that we should perhaps devise a number of 
very specific hypotheses to test and from which we could then derive 
policy recommendations. For example, something like "do men that take 
parental leave go on to provide more informal care to parents later 
on?", would be an example of a possible focused hypothesis to test.

iii) I transmitted to her that we are currently focusing on the more 
"socio-economic" (income, education) of the social determinants of 
health - to be revisited - and she considered perfectly fine to focus 
only on some social determinants, precisely to arrive at more narrowly 
defined hypotheses and policy recommendations.

iv) She was also very interested in the country differences and on 
whether we could say something more about this. This is perhaps Sabina's 
point that for me raises more questions: whether we will be able to say 
that much about each country. To be discussed.

Overall, I thought the discussion was a very good one and I thought her 
suggestion to narrow down hypotheses and policy recommendations to be 
very helpful for us to make some decisions.
We can talk about this during our next zoom.

Best wishes,
Ricardo





On 2019-07-28 20:11, Stefan Fors wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I think these are all valid points. The first point - on whether to go
> wide or narrow when it comes to selecting what social determinants to
> include in our models- is of crucial importance, and I think we will
> have to come back to that. It would be nice to hear Ms Littmans
> suggestions on how to think about this. So, maybe you could ask her
> about that.
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Stefan
> 
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> Dear all,
> 
> 
> I'm back from vacations and I've established some contacts with two SB
> members who were not present at the meeting.
> I've contacted Ms Schindler (Austrian Ministry of Health) for a
> working lunch to brief her on the project and I'm waiting for her
> reply.
> 
> I've also been in contact with Ms Littmann (Swiss Insurance Office)
> over e-mail regarding the minutes of the kick-off meeting. Here is
> what she sent back as questions/comments (I've edited the text as she
> also included information about her health condition, which I left
> out):
> 
> "Nevertheless I checked all documents you have sent. When I read the
> minutes, it seemed to be very clear, that the topic and the project
> (esp. the comparable datasets) get very complex, when you include all
> possible factors. On the other hand the results are perhaps not really
> satisfying, when you focus too strong on a small range of factors.
> Especially in relation to context factors and life choices. Who is
> responsible for the methodological questions and defining the datasets
> for the cross-country comparisons ? Due to the minutes it was not a
> very intensive discussion on this part.
> (...)
> My last question refers to slide 8 of the presentation: The diagram
> shows that with increasing age the informal care decreases (for men
> and women), correct? Do you want to go in the same direction and try
> to explain the differences between the countries?
> Just to understand, how you want to get results in this project . . . .
> :-)"
> 
> I will have a phone call next Friday and wanted to touch base with you
> before, in case you have any inputs on her questions.
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> 
> Best wishes,
> Ricardo
> 
> 
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> Head of Health and Care Unit
> European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research
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