Anders Iversen Feiring from Blindern Upper Secondary School in Oslo came on third Place in the 2023 Holberg School Programme with his research Project ‘Health Economists’ Ranking of Disease Prestige’.
Anders Iversen Feiring from Blindern Upper Secondary School in Oslo came on third Place in the 2023 Holberg School Programme with his research Project ‘Health Economists’ Ranking of Disease Prestige’.
Feiring’s project addresses health economists’ criteria in their ranking of diseases, and whether or not healthcare professionals and health economists rank the prestige of diseases differently. The factors discussed are the age of the patient, prevalence, costs to society, treatment efficacy, severity, cure vs. care, media coverage, research, and women’s health. One of the differences uncovered is the fact that health professionals do not value economic costs to society as strongly as health economists.
The School Programme
The Holberg School Programme is an annual research competition for students in Norwegian upper secondary schools i the humanities, social sciences law and theology. Each year, around 1,000 students from 20 selected schools participate in the competition.
The Holberg School Programme Jury selects three research projects that are awarded prizes of NOK 30,000, NOK 20,000 and NOK 10,000 respectively.
The finalists are announced in mid May, and the award ceremony is held during the Holberg Week in early June each year.