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Jan Abel Olsen

Job description

Jan Abel Olsen er Professor emeritus i helseøkonomi ved Institutt for samfunnsmedisin, ved UiT Norges arktiske universitet

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Publikasjoner utenom Cristin

Bøker

Olsen JA: Principles in health economics and policy, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2017

Olsen JA: Helseøkonomi: Effektivitet og rettferdighet, Cappelen Akademisk Forlag, 2006 

Dolan P, Olsen JA: Distributing health care: Economic and ethical issues, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002  

Noen utvalgte publikasjoner

Chen G, Olsen JA, Lamu AN: The influence of parents’ and partner’s educations on own health behaviours, Social Science and Medicine, 2024

Olsen JA, Chen G, Lamu AN: The relative importance of education and health behaviour for health and wellbeing, BMC Public Health, 2023

Lamu AN, Chen G, Olsen JA: Amplified disparities: The association between spousal education and own health, Social Science and Medicine, 2023

Olsen JA, Lindberg MH, Lamu AN: Health and wellbeing in Norway: Population norms and the social gradient. Social Science and Medicine 2020

Olsen JA, Lamu A, Cairns J: In search of a common currency: A comparison of seven EQ-5D-5L value sets. Health Economics, 2017 

Olsen JA:  Concepts of equity and fairness in health and health care, in Smith PC, Glied SA (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Health Economics, Oxford University Press, 2011

Olsen JA: Priority preferences: 'End of life' does not matter, but total life does, Value in Health 2013

Olsen JA: Hva menes med "sykdommens alvorlighetsgrad"? Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening, 2013

 

Olsen JA, Donaldson C, Shackley P. Implicit vs explicit ranking: On inferring ordinal preferences for health care programmes based on differences in willingness-to-pay.  Journal of Health Economics, 2005; 24 (5): 990-996.

Olsen JA, Donaldson C, Pereira J. The insensitivity of ‘willingness-to-pay’ to the size of the good: new evidence for health care, Journal of Economic Psychology, 2004; 25: 445-460. 

Olsen JA, Richardson J, Dolan P, Menzel P. The moral relevance of personal characteristics in setting health care priorities, Social Science and Medicine, 2003; 57: 1163-1172.  

Olsen JA. A note on eliciting distributive preferences for health, Journal of Health Economics, 2000; 19: 541-550. 

Olsen JA, Richardson J. Production gains from health care: What should be included in cost-effectiveness analyses? Social Science and Medicine, 1999; 49: 17-26. 

Olsen JA: Theories of justice and their implications for priority setting in health care, Journal of Health Economics, 1997; 16: 625-639

Research interests

  • Prioritering: Effektivitet og rettferdighet i fordeling av helsetjenester
  • Måling og verdsetting av helseforbedringer; kvalitetsjusterte leveår (QALYs)
  • Ulikheter i helse
  • Regional variasjon i forbruksrater av helsetjenester

Teaching

HEL 3007 Health Economics and Policy


Member of research group

Helsetjenesteforskning   Norsk innhold Health services research   English content

CV

Work address
Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, 9037 Tromsø, Norway.

Education 
PhD (Dr Philos), thesis: Some methodological issues in economic evaluation in health care, University of Tromsø (1994). MSc in Economic geography (1981), MA in Economics and business administration (1979),  Norwegian School of Economics (NHH).

Current positions

  • Since May 2024, Professor Emeritus, retired after 25 years as Professor of health economics and health services research, Department of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø (UiT), Norway
  • Since 2010, Adjunct Professor, Centre for Health Economics, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Previous positions

  • 1980-81   Research associate, Department of Social Sciences, UiT
  • 1982-85   Research associate, Department of Economics, UiT
  • 1986-98   Associate professor, Department of Economics, UiT
  • 1992-96   Adjunct Professor, Aberdeen University, Scotland
  • 2004-06   Adjunct Professor, Bocconi University, Italy
  • 2006-11   Adjunct Professor, University of Oslo, Norway
  • 2011-24   Part time researcher at Norwegian Institute of Public Health

Research Fields
Measuring and valuing health outcomes; QALYs; EQ-5D; Efficiency vs equality trade-offs in health and healthcare; The relationship between health related quality of life (HRQoL) and subjective well-being (SWB); Tracing causes of inequalities in health and well-being; Health care financing

Books

  • Olsen JA: Principles in Health Economics and Policy (2nd edition), Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2017
  • Olsen JA: Helseøkonomi: Effektivitet og rettferdighet, Cappelen Akademisk Forlag, Oslo, 2006
  • Dolan P, Olsen JA: Distributing health care: Economic and ethical issues, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002

Publication profile

95 peer reviewed journal articles, of which more than half appear in level 2 journals (similar to A and A*) in the Norwegian Scientific Index (CRIStin).  In total 30 articles published in the three most prestigious health economics journals (JHE, HE, SS&M). In most of this published work I have played a leading role, as signaled by being sole author (15), first author (16), or last author (46).  My H-index: 43.

Teaching experience
Graduate courses at universities in Australia, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Norway, Russia, Tanzania, South Africa, UK.

 

 

MH øst L10.144


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