The core of the Nordic health care system is not empty

• Main Authors: Carl Hampus Lyttkens (Author), Terkel Christiansen (Author), Unto Häkkinen (Author), Oddvar Kaarboe (Author), Matt Sutton (Author), Anna Welander (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: University of Oslo, 2016-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The Nordic countries are well-known for their welfare states. A very important feature of the welfare state is that it aims at easy and equal access to adequate health care for the entire population. For many years, the Nordic systems were automatically viewed as very similar, and they were placed i...