Pål Joranger

Pål Joranger is an Associate Professor at Oslo Metropolitan University in the Department of Nursing and Health Promotion within the Faculty of Health Sciences. He serves as Head of Studies for Area of Responsibility 2 and maintains an active research profile in health economics, risk analysis, and healthcare empowerment.

Dr. Joranger's research spans several critical healthcare domains:

• Health economics and cost analysis of healthcare services
• Risk analysis in healthcare settings
• Empowerment in healthcare delivery
• Impact of disability on families and workforce participation
• Digital health interventions for chronic disease management
• Health literacy and its relationship to quality of life outcomes

His publication record reveals a strong emphasis on health economics, particularly cost analyses comparing healthcare approaches like home birth versus hospital birth, and examining the economic consequences of caring for children with disabilities. He has made significant contributions to digital health research, especially in diabetes care through the DigiDiaS project, and has been instrumental in the International Health Literacy Population Survey (HLS19) conducted with the WHO Action Network M-POHL. His methodological approaches frequently combine quantitative and qualitative techniques to address complex healthcare questions in the Norwegian context.

Dr. Joranger leads or participates in several key research initiatives:

• Digital follow-up of patients with type 1 diabetes in the specialist health service (DigiDiaS)
• Digitalisation of student activity through group work (Digigroups)
• Direct and Indirect Costs of Disabilities in Children (BUDGET)

His work bridges academic research with practical healthcare applications, directly informing healthcare policy and practice in Norway through rigorous health economic evaluations and patient-centered research.