Health services

This report concerns dental health expenditures and unmet need for dental services in Norway. The report has two main objectives. First, it aims to present existing sources on expenditures and unmet need for dental services in Norway, with particular emphasis on the private dental care sector. Second, the report presents key results and findings from these sources, with primary emphasis on results from the private dental care sector.

The report presents updated projections of the demand for labor in the public health and care services, as well as the supply of personnel with relevant education for health and care occupations. It also compares the projected demand for and supply of labor with health-related education.

This report analyzes the organization of home care services, with a focus on services and target groups, and includes data from 3,600 active home care service enterprises. Two-thirds of these were within staffed residential home care services, and just under half were aimed at persons with intellectual disabilities, etc.

The purpose of this report is to throw a light on humanitarian needs among the elderly, and how these might develop in the future. An important issue is also how the public care for the elderly attends to those needs, both now and later.

Expanding nursing education is a common response to nurse shortages, but additional study places need not translate one-for-one into practicing nurses.

The purpose of this report is to get more knowledge about the municipality’s overall expenses for the emergency primary care service, priorly an overview over these expenses has not existed. This report will show how much the municipalities’ overall expenses for emergency primary health care are, but also present the total expenses for emergency primary health care in Norway.

Since orthodontic treatment (dental braces) is not part of the services offered by the public dental healthcare system for children and young people, those who require such treatment are referred to specialized dentists.

The adult population in Norway must basically pay for dental treatment themselves. Nevertheless, from 2007 it has been possible through National Insurance to get full or partial financial reimbursement for treatment for people with particularly special needs, as a group of specific diseases or conditions (activation tresholds) give the right to full or partial reimbursement of the expenses.

The municipalities must, according to the Act on Municipal Health Services (Health Care Act), offer emergency primary health care as part of its responsibility for these services. Municipalities are, in principle, free to choose how they organize their emergency primary health care, in order to fulfill their responsibility.

The purpose of this report is to illustrate how the Norwegian home care service is organized. The report shows how the municipal home care service enterprises, i.e. the organizations that perform home care services, are organized in terms of the services they perform and the target groups they perform services for.