Health Equity
See also: Health equity and Social determinants of healthEquity is highly valued in Finland and the law provides same rights for all citizens, including in health care. There still exists some geographic and socioeconomic disparities in health care. Perhaps one of the most important reasons for the socioeconomic differences in the use of services is that the private sector and occupational health care, which are less accessible to the low-income population, offer better access to services (e.g. a major difference is waiting times) than the municipal sector. Narrowing health gaps has been the objective of Finnish health policy since the 1980s, however, this objective has not been fully achieved.
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