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Norway has one of the highest per capita health expenditures in the world. As life expectancy increases and more people lives with long-term conditions, recent health policy development seeks to improve care coordination between primary and specialist care, shift healthcare towards more preventive and person-centred interventions and enhance user involvement in clinical decisions.
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Sørensen, M. (2021). Integrated Care in Norway. In: Amelung, V., Stein, V., Suter, E., Goodwin, N., Nolte, E., Balicer, R. (eds) Handbook Integrated Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69262-9_57
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