A new report highlights global climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic as specific threats to our societies and consequently our health through seven selected indicators. The goal is that all Nordic countries collect these indicators regularly and over-time, to enable monitoring and comparison of inequalities.

In 2016, when NOSOSCO turned 70 years old and NOMESCO turned 50 years old, both committees engaged in various projects and initiatives. These were launched in the committees in consultation with the respective presidency countries. The committees were also subject to an external evaluation enacted as a special user survey. While the work was ongoing, the committees’ delegation leaders decided to create a publication with the working title: “Postscript to the 2016 anniversary”.
With this anniversary publication, the delegation leaders want to honor the countless experts who have developed and produced statistics in the social and medical areas in the Nordic countries over the decades.

The texts are in Scandinavian languages, with an English summary.

Over a period of more than 70 years, the Nordic countries have worked together to produce comparative statistics on social and health issues with the goal of informing researchers, public officials, politicians and the public.

The very important definitions on how to interpret and use the data collected and presented by the editorial- and working group of Nososco are now in place on the page.