Nordic health economics methodology for women's health

A coordinated pan-Nordic methodology would value the women’s health gap in Nordicspecific terms, by harmonising the McKinsey-derived directional modelling and the Nordic register-based components into one framework feeding annual State of Nordic Women’s Health reporting. The two Nordic register-based components are the IHE Report 2024:9, published in October 2024 with Astellas funding, and IZA Discussion Paper 17793, published in March 2025. Together with the directional total, they underpin the USD 30 to 50 billion Nordic women’s health opportunity. No Nordic body has yet consolidated them under one methodology, which leaves the policy conversation anchored in consultancy aggregate rather than Nordic-specific numbers.

A Nordic Women’s Health Burden Report, with the register-based components as anchor, McKinsey global modelling as directional reference, and Australia’s National Women’s Health Strategy monitoring framework of September 2025 as governance template, would let the Nordic case for women’s health investment carry Nordic-specific weight in front of the NMC, the European Commission, and the European Investment Bank. The Report would also establish the baseline against which the trajectory toward 2040 can be measured. NordForsk, the NMC, the five national HTA bodies, IHE, and the University of Bergen are positioned to coordinate it.