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Observatory of Inequality (ODDS)

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Programme The Observatory of Health Inequality (ODDS) is a free-of-charge and free-access
scientific portal specializing in Health Inequality integrated within the “Social Deter-
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minants of Health” programme (P4).

It is structured around a website (http://www.ods-ciberesp.org) having a wide
range of information concerning published studies, reports, events, and other re-

sources on the determinants of Health Inequality, with special emphasis on social

class, gender, age, origin, and place of residence.

It is an initiative which is open for collaboration with all CIBERESP groups and par-
ticularly with the members of the inequality programme. It is under the scientific

leadership of Dr. L. Artazcoz (ASPB), and L. Cascant (CIBERESP-ASPB) took up the

position of project manager up until June 2012. Esther Sánchez Ledesma joined
the group in 2013.

2010 bore witness to the consolidation of a virtual information service, an electron-

ic research support platform on Health Inequality with the following strategic focal
points: Gender and Health, Social Class and Health, Age and Health, Immigration/

Ethnicity and Health, Territory and Health. The web site of the Observatory is peri-

odically updated with new resources, events, published studies, and new scientific
evidence on Health Inequality.

The group is making a special effort to seek additional sources of funding for main- á

taining the observatory. In this sense, it has moved forward in the realization of

collaboration initiatives with the Ministry of Health and Social Policies, the Instituto
Nacional de Seguridad e Higiene en el trabajo, the Dirección General de Salut

Pblica, Instituto de la Mujer and Institut Cerd.

Objectives
The main objectives of the Observatory of Health Inequality (ODS) are:
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• To create a virtual information service in which information and documentation P
concerning health inequality referring fundamentally to Spain as a whole and RE
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to its Autonomous Communities is collected, systematized and transmitted.
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• To develop contents and services aimed at the general population used for RE
disseminating the results of the studies and research that have been con- E
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