The Nordic Arena for Public Health Issues
Public health
The Nordic Welfare Centre acts as the secretariat for the Nordic Arena for Public Health Issues, with the task of strengthening Nordic public health cooperation and efforts to reduce health disparities among residents of the Nordic countries.
Cross-sectoral work to improve public health
The arena consists of health experts from the ministries of the Nordic countries and the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Åland. The Arena is especially active in addressing health inequities and the main risk factors for noncommunicable diseases (NCDs): alcohol, tobacco, unhealthy eating habits and lack of exercise. Among other objectives, the Nordic Arena for Public Health aims to:
- strengthen Nordic cooperation for good and equitable health;
- contribute to the development of robust policies and the implementation of the cross-sectoral health-in-all-policy perspective in individual Nordic countries and in the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Åland;
- promote cross-sectoral public health policy cooperation at national and international level; and
- contribute to realising the vision of the Nordic Council of Ministers of a socially sustainable, green and competitive Nordic region.
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