Country Profile

With its long lasting emphasis on equality and a history of universal and free high quality welfare provision, Denmark is characterised as a Nordic welfare state. Therefore there is no separate document focusing solely on reduction of health inequalities as all the policies have a strong equity dimension. The value of the Gini coefficient is 0.247, where 0 = perfect equality and 1= perfect inequality, therefore making it the most egalitarian society in the world (Human Development Report, 2004).

The background information to this entry was collected by the Danish project partner Tine Curtis of the Danish National Public Health Institute.

Documents and Publications

This section provides the key documents on health inequalities published on a national level in Denmark in the  past decade.

Key Policy Tools

In this section main tools used to implement and monitor national policies in the field of health inequalities are listed.

Key Actors

In this section key actors that are in a position to have an impact on health inequalities policies, such as ministries, state agencies, universities and/or independent institutes are listed.

National database of good practice

Please click here to learn about the databases where you can find a collection of good practices aiming at reducing health inequalities collected in Denmark.