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The WHO European Office for Investment for Health and Development, Venice, Italy of the WHO Regional Office for Europe is organizing national policy-learning case studies in an effort to support the advancement of policy-relevant knowledge on tackling the social determinants of health and health inequity in the WHO European Region. Norway is one of the first three case studies to be carried out. This report presents the Norwegian experience in implementing strategies to reduce socially determined health inequity and highlights the key lessons learned from this process. It describes how a series of factors and action taken over a period of time came together to create a window of opportunity that enabled the introduction of a comprehensive, intersectoral policy to tackle the social gradient on health. It seeks to provide a tool that allows reflection on progress to date and options for the future, and to shed light on critical areas of learning that can be useful to and adapted by other countries in advancing their own national policies, strategies and capacity to reduce socially determined health inequity.
