1. Global Policy-
making for Health
in All Sectors
Aino-Inkeri Hansson,
Director General, Ministry of
Social Affairs and Health, Finland
10.06.2013

2. Health in All Policies:
 an approach to public policies across sectors that
systematically takes into account the health
implications of decisions, seeks synergies, and
avoids harmful health impacts in order to improve
population health and health equity.
 HiAP
– is founded on health-related rights and obligations.
– improves accountability of policymakers for health impacts at
all levels of policy-making.
– emphasizes the consequences of public policies on health
systems, determinants of health, and well-being.

3. Key elements for HiAP
 Identifying a need for HiAP (i.e. a problem that
needs a solutions beyond the health sector’s
boundaries)
– a health or health equity problem,
– a government priority calling for health sector involvement,
– a proposal deriving from beyond the health sector with
potentially important health or health equity implications
 Developing feasible solutions
– technical, economic, ethical, cultural and political

4. Key elements for HiAP
 Structures, processes and tools enabling
identification of problems and solutions, as well as
reaching decisions and their implementation across
sectoral boundaries
– Parliamentary and/or Intersectoral Committees and
working groups, Hearings, Impact assessments
 Proof of an effective policy is in its implementation
– attention from the start on feasibility of
implementation, and on the division of labour