On 27 May 2003, NOMESCO and NOSOSCO arranged a seminar on Sustainable Social and Health Development in Stockholm. The seminar was a follow-up of a project in 2002 where NOMESCO & NOSOSCO drew up a set of proposals for Nordic Indicators concerning Sustainable Social and Health Development. In 2003, these proposals were followed up by a production of statistics on the proposed indicators.

Both the proposals and the statistics were presented at the seminar, supplemented by some more specific topics that all had relevance to a sustainable social and health development. In this report, the main background papers from the seminar are presented.

These include:

• Christer Eriksson, Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, Sweden; Nordic indicators seen in relation to the international collaboration.
• Torben Fridberg, SFI Denmark; General and Social indicators.
• Niels Kr. Rasmussen, SIF, Denmark; Health Indicators.
• Johannes Nielsen, NOMESCO and NOSOSCO, Denmark; Health services indicators.
• Helge Brunborg; Ssb, Norway; The ageing population, trends and problems in the Nordic countries.
• Marja-Liisa Parjanne & Pekka Siren, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health Scenarios for the long-term financial sustainability of the Finnish social protection system.
• Ilija Batljan, Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, Sweden; Macroeconomis scenarios of future and costs of health and social care for the elderly in sweden, 2000-30.
• Gunilla Ringbäck Weitoft, National Board of Health and Welfare, Sweden; Mortality, severe morbidity, injury and educational attainment among children in single parent families.
• Torben Fridberg, SFI, Denmark; Indicators on low income.
• Henrik Brønnum-Hansen, SIF, Denmark; Health expectancy and the hypotheses of compression, expansion and dynamic equilibrium.
• Seppo Koskinen, National Public Health Institute, Finland; Well-being in relation to health.