Resource Database
Looking for policies, good practices, research outputs, organisations or initiatives that address health inequalities? This database can help you find them. Filter results by type, topic, year, or country – or search by keyword. Use the form below to add your own resources to the database.
What is the health equity resource database?
The resource database includes examples of work on health inequalities including
- publications
- good practices
- initiatives and organisations
- data sources
- policies and policy analysis
- research
The database is focused on Europe and European countries.
You can filter results by type (for example: health inequalities research, organisation, intervention/practice, or policy) and theme (for example: built environment, education, or employment). You can also filter by country, or find cross-border collaborations. The level filter allows you to find local, national, European or international entries. Use the search bar to search for keywords.
Is something missing from the database?
Do you have an example of a national or European policy for increasing health equity, an intervention, or research to share? Check whether it fits our eligibility criteria and add it using our submission form.
Healthy integration resources for newcomers in the Netherlands
Pharos’s Healthy Integration module offers simple materials for teachers, volunteers, and others supporting newcomers. It helps newcomers navigate Dutch healthcare, adopt healthier lifestyles, and improve language skills. Topics include accessing...Slovenia promotes healthy energy choices for adolescents
Slovenia’s National Institute of Public Health and Ministry of Health have relaunched the campaign “Choose your energy. Get good energy without energy drinks”. Targeting adolescents, the initiative raises awareness of...Wales’ plan to prevent heart attacks and strokes
Public Health Wales and partners have unveiled a Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Plan targeting up to 70,000 people with high blood pressure. Over three years, the initiative aims to prevent more...Mental wellbeing mostly good but uneven among older...
A survey by the Public Health Agency of Sweden finds that 80–90% of people aged 65+ report good mental wellbeing. However, vulnerable groups—women, the foreign-born, and those with illness or...Mental health decreasing among young people, stable among...
New data from Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) shows declining mental health among young people in the Netherlands, with rising loneliness, stress, and suicidal thoughts....Saving lives, spending less: the global investment case...
WHO’s report Saving lives, spending less makes a compelling case for urgent investment in cost-effective interventions to prevent and control non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Drawing on WHO’s package of NCD ‘best...Global trends in NCD mortality: progress, setbacks, and...
A recent study published in The Lancet tracks changes in non-communicable disease (NCD) mortality across 185 countries from 2001 to 2019. Using WHO Global Health Estimates, it assesses how the...WHO Europe policy brief: using food taxes to...
This brief from WHO Europe outlines how fiscal measures can create fairer food environments by promoting healthy diets. It highlights principles for designing food taxes, including alignment with nutrient profile...
Contribute to the health equity resource database
The resource database is continuously updated with new publications, initiatives and practices, policies, and organisations. Share your work with the public health community by completing the form below.
The team at EuroHealthNet will check whether your submission meets our eligibility criteria before it goes live on the webpage. Do you have a lot of documents to add? Contact us for help. Not sure if your content is eligible for the database? Find out what can and can't be included.
