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Disease-specific health spending by age, sex, and type of care in Norway: a national health registry study by Jonas Minet Kinge; Joseph L. Dieleman; Øystein Karlstad; Ann Kristin Knudsen; Søren Toksvig Klitkou; Simon I. Hay; Theo Vos; Christopher J. L. Murray; Stein Emil Vollset is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Background Norway is a high-income nation with universal tax-financed health care and among the highest per person health spending in the world. This study estimates Norwegian health expenditures by health condition, age, and sex, and compares it with disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs). ## Methods Government budgets, reimbursement databases, patient registries, and prescription databases were combined to estimate spending for 144 health conditions, 38 age and sex groups, and eight types of care (GPs; physiotherapists & chiropractors; specialized outpatient; day patient; inpatient; prescription drugs; home-based care; and nursing homes) totaling 174,157,766 encounters. Diagnoses were in accordance with the Global Burden of Disease study (GBD). The spending estimates were adjusted, by redistributing excess spending associated with each comorbidity. Disease-specific DALYs were gathered from GBD 2019. ## Results The top five aggregate causes of Norwegian health spending in 2019 were mental and substance use disorders (20.7%), neurological disorders (15.4%), cardiovascular diseases (10.1%), diabetes, kidney, and urinary diseases (9.0%), and neoplasms (7.2%). Spending increased sh
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- Author
- Jonas Minet Kinge; Joseph L. Dieleman; Øystein Karlstad; Ann Kristin Knudsen; Søren Toksvig Klitkou; Simon I. Hay; Theo Vos; Christopher J. L. Murray; Stein Emil Vollset
- Publisher
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)