The Norwegian Public Health Act

This new Norwegian Public Health Act places reducing health inequalities through action on social determinants of health at the heart of Public Health nationally, regionally and locally. The Act establishes a new foundation for strengthening systematic public health work in the development of policies and planning for societal development based on regional and local challenges and needs.

The Act provides a broad basis for the coordination of public health work horizontally across various sectors and actors and vertically between authorities at local, regional and national level. Only by integrating health and its social determinants as an aspect of all social and welfare development through intersectoral action, can good and equitable public health be achieved.

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Type
Governmental / Institutional / Public Health Statutory Body Document, Policy & Policy Analysis
Theme
Financial security, social protection, social inclusion, access to care, poverty, Governance, Health in All Policies, Economy of Wellbeing, Health Impact Assessment, sustainable development, Health systems and services, primary health care, integrated systems, prevention services, health workforce
Country
Norway
Level
National
Year
2011


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