Medical Xpress March 2, 2021
New technology is good for patients and the healthcare system. But it could also expand the already significant health disparities in Norway and other countries.
“Women and men with higher education in Norway live five to six years longer than people with that only have lower secondary school education,” says Emil Øversveen, a postdoctoral fellow at NTNU’s Department of Sociology and Political Science.
He is affiliated with CHAIN, the Center for Global Health Inequalities Research. The center works to reduce social health inequalities worldwide.
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