Norway
Population (2017): 5.258 M
Income per Capita (2018): 91,218.62 US
Percentage of GDP on Healthcare (2015): 9.98%
training
Year family medicine established: 1985 (Westin et al., 1987)
Type of Training: unknown
Length of Training: There is 6 years of medical school followed by a 5-year training program in family medicine (University of Bergen, n.d.).
Number of institutions that offer family medicine: 4 universities teach family medicine, the University of Bergen, University of Oslo, University of Tromsø Norw and the University of Science and Technol, Trondheim (Brekke et al., 2013)
Number of family medicine residents graduating each year: unknown
practice
Number of family doctors in country (2016): 4,409 family physicians (Eurostat, 2016)
Physician to population ratio (2006): 75.3 family physicians per 100,000 people (Masseria et al., 2009)
DALY: 11,790 per 100,000 individuals (Due to all Causes).
Life Expectancy:
Females 2017: 84.2 years
Males 2017: 80.9 years
Mortality rate 2017:
2014 Males: 69 per 1,000 male adults.
2014 Females: 43 per 1,000 female adults.
Infant Immunization-HepB3: % of 1-year-old children received: N/A
College of Family Physicians (Y or N):
N/A
Healthcare System
The health care system in Norway is public, as the population is covered by public health insurance for general practice services (Kringos et al., n.d.)
training
4 universities in Norway teach family medicine, the University of Bergen, University of Oslo, University of Tromsø Norw and the University of Science and Technol, Trondheim (Brekke et al., 2013). To become a family physician here requires 6 years of medical school followed by a 5-year training program in family medicine (University of Bergen, n.d.). In 2001 the Norwegian government decided to give all of its citizens the ability and the freedom to choose a general practitioner as their primary care provider.
practice
In Norway “GPs offer the first contact point for all adults and children when they are in need of health services. The practices are well equipped to perform diagnostic investigations, follow-up treatment and minor surgery.” Nurses and GPs are the core of primary care, and act as gatekeepers for more specialized medicine. General Practitioners in this country work to better the well-being of their patients by monitoring their chronic conditions and their health.
References
Brekke, Mette, Francesco Carelli, Natalia Zarbailov, Givi Javashvili, Stefan Wilm, Markku Timonen, and Howard Tandeter. 2013. “Undergraduate Medical Education in General Practice/Family Medicine throughout Europe-a Descriptive Study.” http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6920/13/157.
“Cand.Med.-Degree Programme | University of Bergen.” n.d. Accessed November 28, 2018. https://www.uib.no/en/studies/PRMEDISIN.
Kringos, Dionne S, Wienke G W Boerma, Allen Hutchinson, Richard D Saltman, and Richard B Saltman. n.d. “Building Primary Care in a Changing Europe Edited Building Primary Care in a Changing Europe Observatory Studies Series 38.” Accessed December 2, 2018. http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/271170/BuildingPrimaryCareChangingEurope.pdf.
Masseria, Cristina, Rachel Irwin, Sarah Thomson, Marin Gemmill, and Elias Mossialos. 2009. “Primary Care in Europe.” The London School of Economics and Political Science, no. December: 1–42. https://doi.org/10.1097/JAC.0b013e31824b45f4.
“Physicians, by Speciality.” 2016. Eurostat. Accessed on December 1, 2018. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statisticsexplained/index.php?title=File:Physicians,_by_speciality,_2016_HLTH18.png.
Westin, Steinar, and Arne Ivar Östensen. 1987. “General Practice Recognized as a Speciality in Norway.” Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care 5 (1): 60–61. https://doi.org/10.3109/02813438709024189.
