Request by the WHO European Centre for Primary Health Care, Almaty, Kazakhstan: Collect experiences and best practices and write a Country vignette of Norway (short report) about the use of e-health in primary health care during the Covid-19 pandemic. Production of report takes place in close collaboration with WHO Europe.
The Covid-19 pandemic has created a new context and revealed long-standing weaknesses in health system organization and public health and primary health care. Several countries have taken the opportunity of the crisis to accelerate long-term reforms and strengthen primary health care. The emerging success stories show promising approaches to strengthen primary health care and health systems post-pandemic.
To facilitate learning and experience exchanges across Europe, WHO will produce a series of country vignettes of transforming primary health care and spearheading a dual-track health system response to the pandemic. The short reports will demonstrate country experiences using the pandemic as an opportunity to accelerate long-standing policies and reforms trends such as multi-disciplinary care, mobile outreach, task shifting, digital solutions.
