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Healthcare and care at distance

Contribution to regional development

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Health and wellbeing in the nordic region

The Nordic research institution, Nordregio have been studying Health & Well-being in the Nordic Region during 2018-2020. The study have centered around the following questions:

  • Are the Nordic people equally healthy and happy?
  • How are digital solutions improving health and well-being?
  • And how can digital solutions in health care and social care contribute to regional development?

Digitalisation can overcome gaps

The results show that although the Nordic countries are performing well on many indicators related to health and wellbeing in an international comparison, there are persistent gaps between regions, socio-economic groups and gender. Digitalisation has the potential to overcome some of these gaps by improving accessibility to welfare services and thus wellbeing.

Related publications

The three reports on Health and Well-being in the Nordic Region have been produced by Nordregio. The reports “Digital Health Care and Social Care – Regional Development Impacts in the Nordic Countries” with the annex “Digital Healthcare and Social care: In-depth accessibility study” are outputs of this project collaboration. The third report, is a special issue to the State of the Nordic Region 2020 named Well-being, health and digitalization.


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Health & Well-being in the Nordic Region: The Potential of digital solutions

Are the Nordic people equally healthy and happy? How are digital solutions improving health and well-being? And how can digital solutions in health care and social care contribute to regional development?

 

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Anna Lundgren, Senior Researcher Nordregio
anna.lundgren@nordregio.org

 

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Existing distance spanning solutions

With an ageing population and sparsely populated areas throughout the Nordic region, digitalisation and remote solutions are important prerequisites for maintaining the quality of the Nordic welfare model. But what distance spanning services for healthcare and care exists in the nordics?

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How to implement

How can technology be brought to those people who really need it? We have identified the Norwegian model “Roadmap for service innovation” as a great tool/strategy for digital transformation of healthcare and care services.

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Experiences from implementation

We have supported implementation of distance spanning solutions for healthcare and social care services in 52 municipalities and 8 healthcare regions. By monitoring implementation, a number of common challenges and experiences have been identified.

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