Norway Severe Asthma Index

Norway is among the highest scoring in terms of Policy Context. This is due to a comprehensive asthma strategy, severe asthma guidelines, and Norway’s reporting to severe asthma registries. Limited alignment of national guidelines with international best practices and comparatively modest tobacco control laws limit Norway’s ability to score higher in this category. In terms of Access and Care Coverage, Norway ranks close to average. While Norway shows relatively low unmet needs and high levels of access to biologics-based treatment, specialist care, and diagnostics such as inflammatory phenotyping, improvement could be made in access to other treatments, digital therapeutics, and FeNO-based diagnosis. Norway has among the lowest Disease Burden scores, which is attributable to one of the highest estimated societal costs of asthma and the number of DALYs attributable to asthma. Having some of the lowest rates of adult tobacco use improves Norway’s score in this category.