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The pandemic has hit the immigrant population in Norway hard. The Minister of Labor and Social Inclusion takes recommendations on stronger cooperation between public agencies to make integration better.The Norwegian Institute of Public Health NIPH has on behalf of the Ministry assessed and evaluated the health sectors infection-reducing measures aimed at immigrants. The aim of the project has been to bring out knowledge that can shed light on why implemented measures may or may not work and what can contribute to improvement. An initial interim report was submitted in June and now the final report is ready.The report provides a number of recommendations we look forward to considering thoroughly. It is important that the knowledge we have is used to create good policy. We will bring experience and lessons from pandemic management into the ordinary integration work says State Secretary Nancy Herz.The assignment has been an important contribution to building up an analysis team in this area in NIPH to quickly gain a knowledge base during an ongoing pandemic. Lessons and recommendations that came as a result of this work are continuously implemented and disseminated throughout the period.I note among other things the recommendation for broader collaboration across public agencies to utilize the necessary expertise and resources so that we ensure increased health professional competence in the integration sector and increased migration and integration professional competence in the health sector. We need to take a closer look at this says Nancy Herz.In Norway people born outside Norway have been overrepresented both in terms of proven infection and hospitalizations. There has also been a significantly higher proportion of infected among Norwegian-born who have foreign-born parents than among Norwegian-born with Norwegian-born parents.
