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Figure 15: Barriers to making health inequalities more of on an important issue.
Nearly all countries have mentioned the complexity of tackling underlying socio-economic determinants of health as being a barrier to putting more attention on health inequalities.
Both the lack of awareness and understanding of policy makers outside the health sectors and to a lesser extent the lack of understanding by the health care sectors have frequently been mentioned as a barrier to take health inequalities forward.
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