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|a van den Noord, Paul
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|a The Norwegian Health Care System
|h Elektronische Ressource
|c Paul, van den Noord, Terje, Hagen and Tor, Iversen
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|a Paris
|b OECD Publishing
|c 1998
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|a 32 p.
|c 21 x 29.7cm
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|a Norway
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|a Economics
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|a Hagen, Terje
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|a Iversen, Tor
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|a OECD Books and Papers
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|a OECD Economics Department Working Papers
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|a /10.1787/571585217086
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|a This paper examines the Norwegian health care system from an economic perspective. While acknowledging the excellent quality of services delivered by the Norwegian health care system, it identifies a number of problem areas, in particular: i) the long waiting lists for hospital admission and lack of medical staff; ii) the marked regional variation in per capita health care expenditure (which cannot be fully explained by demographic factors); and iii) the risks to cost control associated with soft budget constraints and collective wage bargaining of doctors. A series of recent reforms, most importantly a move from block grant to activity-based funding of hospitals, should provide incentives for raising efficiency in health care provision but also risk leading to "treatment inflation" ..
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