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Health inequality was by Nordic Council of Ministers selected as a health policy issue where Nordic collaboration is needed. The Nordic welfare state model can only be sustained with a high employment rate, but growing inequalities in health means that low education, ill health and no employment are increasingly interdependent. That is a challenge for a social investment welfare state that aims at investing in the population’s education and health. Because educational achievements and hindered by ill health, and rehabilitation by low education. Social investments can raise social mobility but without less inequality in living conditions it means equal opportunity to achieve very unequal living conditions and health. And without making resource allocation to education and health care driven more by need than demand the vicious circle of low education, ill health and no job not be broken.

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