**This group is currently not active. Equity topics are observed in many working groups.***
Equity means social justice or fairness. The concept is one of the key principles of the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion from 1986, and is consistent with the WHO call for ‘Health for All’.
Social inequity concerns systematic differences between different socioeconomic groups and is a consequence of unequal access to public benefits and services, education, or adequate food and housing, for example – differences which, according to Whitehead (1991), are unnecessary, avoidable, unfair, and unjust. To promote equity, policies should address the unequal distribution of social and health determinants between advantaged and disadvantaged groups, and the differing consequences of these policies for different parts of the population.
The Equity Working Group focuses on social inequalities and inequities in the Nordic countries and is currently studying policies and political commitments to compensate economically poor families.
updated 2025-06-10
Current active members of the Group
Marie Broholm-Holst – website
Sofie Buch Mejsner – website
Despoina (Debbie) Andrioti Bygvraa- LinkedIn
Helena Gard – website
Jennifer Gothilander
Julie Dalgaard Guldager – website
Susanne Hagen – website
Ulrika Lögdberg – website
Lisbeth Kronsted Lund – LinkedIn
Gloria Macassa – website
Heidi Myglegård Andersen email website
Olin Blaalid Oldeide – website
Sara Svanholm – website
Fungi P Gwanzura Ottemöller – website
Charlotte Overgaard – website
Jeanette Kaae Hansen – website
For publications written within the network.
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