Finland now has a National Action Plan to Reduce Health Inequalities

The new National Action Plan for the years 2008-2011 outlines proposals for strategic policy definitions and the most important measures to reduce socioeconomic health inequalities in Finland.

A project for reducing socioeconomic inequalities in health, known as TEROKA, has since 2004 been working on this area. The project is being carried out together by the National Public Health Institute (KTL), the National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health (Stakes) and the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (TTL). KTL and Stakes will be merged at the beginning of 2009. The TEROKA project has had an important role in planning and preparing the Action Plan. The project and the research institutes will participate in the implementation, monitoring and assessment of the Action Plan.

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WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health has issued its final report titled Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health Equity through Action on the Social Determinants of Health. The report states that social justice is a matter of life and death. It affects the way people live, their consequent chance of illness, and their risk of premature death. For more information, see: http://www.who.int/social_determinants/final_report/en/

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