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Norway

Health Systems in Transition (HiT) profile

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  1. Country Overview

  2. Health Systems in Transition (HiT) profile

    1. Introduction
      1. Introduction
      2. Geography and sociodemography
      3. Economic context
      4. Political context
      5. Health status
    2. Organization and governance

      Updated: 11 September 2024
      1. Introduction
      2. Organization

        Updated: 04 March 2024
      3. Decentralization and centralization
      4. Intersectorality

        Updated: 11 September 2024
      5. Regulation and planning

        Updated: 28 February 2020
      6. Patient empowerment

        Updated: 09 February 2023
    3. Financing

      Updated: 25 August 2025
      1. Introduction
      2. Health expenditure
      3. Sources of revenue and financial flows
      4. Overview of the statutory financing system
      5. Out of pocket payments

        Updated: 25 August 2025
      6. Voluntary health insurance
      7. Other financing
      8. Payment mechanisms

        Updated: 24 April 2023
    4. Physical and human resources

      Updated: 31 December 2021
      1. Introduction
      2. Physical resources

        Updated: 04 May 2021
      3. Human resources

        Updated: 31 December 2021
    5. Provision of services

      Updated: 25 August 2025
      1. Introduction
      2. Public health

        Updated: 08 August 2024
      3. Patient pathways
      4. Primary / ambulatory care

        Updated: 15 September 2023
      5. Specialized ambulatory care / inpatient care

        Updated: 03 February 2025
      6. Emergency care

        Updated: 04 May 2021
      7. Pharmaceutical care

        Updated: 26 June 2024
      8. Rehabilitation / intermediate care
      9. Long term care
      10. Services for informal carers
      11. Palliative care
      12. Mental health care
      13. Dental care

        Updated: 25 August 2025
    6. Principal health reforms
      1. Introduction
      2. Analysis of recent reforms
      3. Future developments
    7. Assessment of the health system

      Updated: 15 February 2020
      1. Introduction
      2. Monitoring health system performance
      3. Health system impact on population health
      4. Access
      5. Financial protection
      6. Health system efficiency
      7. Health care quality and safety

        Updated: 15 February 2020
      8. Transparency and accountability
    8. Conclusions
      1. Introduction
HSPM Norway 2020

Publications

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Norway: health system summary 2024
6 December 2024

Norway: health system summary 2024

The national health system in Norway provides universal coverage for the entire population, with a broad range of services included in the benefit basket....

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Norway: health system review 2020
17 April 2020

Norway: health system review 2020
Health Systems in Transition, Vol. 22 No. 1
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15 December 2023

Norway: Country Health Profile 2023

 The SoHEU Country Health Profiles are a collaboration between the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and the Organisation for Economic...

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Contributors

Authors

  • Ingrid Sperre Saunes

THE HSPM Network

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Norwegian Institute of Public Health

https://www.fhi.no/en/

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