Equitable health services – regardless of where you live?

In Norway, it is a goal for the entire population to have an equal supply of health services across geography and social groups. The health atlas is a tool for comparing the population's use of health services in different geographical areas, regardless of where the patients are treated.

Published April 29 2022

Chronic diseases

The health atlas for chronic diseases looks at health service use for patients who had repeated contact with the general practitioner and specialist health service.

Published January 18 2021

Healthcare Quality Atlas

The health atlas for quality in necessary health services is based on information on just under 100,000 patients and treatments annually, some of whom may have received the same treatment several times or have several diseases.

Published June 09 2020

Mental Healthcare

The health atlas for mental health care and substance abuse treatment provides an overview of the use of mental health care and interdisciplinary specialized substance abuse treatment, and analyzes geographical variation in the use of the services in Norway in 2014–2018.

Published April 03 2019

Obstetrics

The health atlas for obstetrics is the second of two atlases in gynecology and obstetrics prepared by SKDE on the initiative of the Norwegian Gynecological Association.

Published January 08 2019

Gynaecology

In the health atlas for gynecology, we have mapped geographical variation in the use of a selection of specialist health services within gynecology in the period 2015–2017.

Published December 10 2018

Orthopaedic

In the health atlas in orthopedics for Norway, we have mapped geographical variation in the use of specialist health services within orthopedics in 2012–2016.

Published November 01 2018

Day surgery atlas

The second health atlas on day surgery describes the development in scope and variation between the health trusts' admission areas for the same twelve procedures as in the first day surgery atlas, this time for the period 2013–2017.

Published October 18 2017

COPD Healthcare Atlas

The health atlas COPD describes variation in the use of GPs and emergency services, outpatient clinics, emergency admissions and rehabilitation in relation to the place of residence for people with COPD.

Published June 15 2017

Elderly Healthcare Atlas

Published December 13 2016

Neonatal Atlas

The Norwegian Neonatal Medical Health Atlas covers all newborn children who have been admitted to wards for sick newborns in Norway in the period 2009 to 2014.

Published September 29 2015

Child Healthcare Atlas

The Child Health Atlas provides an insight into the distribution of health services to children in Norway. A total of 10.6 million contacts between children and the health service have been analyzed.

Published January 13 2015

Day surgery atlas

The atlas dealing with day surgery was the pilot from the Health Atlas. The atlas was launched in January 2015 and has received a lot of attention, both nationally and internationally.