Terkel Christiansen

Health Policy in Denmark: Leaving the Decentralized Welfare Path? (2008)

Karsten Vrangbæk, Terkel Christiansen

Abstract In this article, we investigate developments in Danish health care policy. After a short presentation of its historical roots, we focus on the decades after the administrative reform of...

Demographic Changes & Aggregate Healthcare Expenditure in Europe. ENEPRI Policy Briefs No. 4, 18 December 2007 (2007)

Christiansen, Terkel., Bech, Mickael., Lauridsen, Jorgen.

This paper extracts the policy implications from ENEPRI Research Report No. 32, prepared under Work Package VI B of the AHEAD Project (Ageing, Health Status and Determinants of Health Expenditure)...

Demographic Changes and Aggregate Health-Care Expenditure in Europe. ENEPRI Research Reports No. 32, 22 December 2006 (2006)

Christiansen, Terkel, Bech, Mickael, Lauridsen, Jorgen, Nielsen, Pascal.

The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between ageing and the development in the aggregate health care expenditure in EU countries on a macroeconomic level when economic...

How do economic factors influence adoption of cardiac technologies? Result from the TECH project (2006)

McGuire, Alistair, Beck, Mickael, Christiansen, Terkel, Dunham, Kelly, Lauridsen, Jørgen, Lyttkens, Carl Hampus, ...

The TECH research network collected patient-level data on three procedures for treatment of heart attack patients, (catheterization, coronary artery by-pass grafts and percutaneous transluminal...

Health Policy in Denmark: Leaving the Decentralized Welfare Path? (2005)

Vrangbæk, Karsten, Christiansen, Terkel

In this article, we investigate developments in Danish health care policy. After a short presentation of its historical roots, we focus on the decades after the administrative reform of 1970, which...

Choice of Care for Minor Trauma: Hospital or General Practice? (1987)

BENTZEN, NIELS, CHRISTIANSEN, TERKEL, PEDERSEN, KJELD MØLLER

This paper analyses the question whether minor trauma should be treated in hospital or general practice. It shows what kind of data are necessary and that this data can be obtained from different...

How do economic incentives and regulatory factors influence adoption of cardiac technologies? Result from the TECH project

Bech, Mickael, Christiansen, Terkel, Dunham, Kelly, Lauridsen, Jørgen, Lyttkens, Carl Hampus, McDonald, Kathryn, ...

The TECH research network collected patient-level data on three procedures for treatment of heart attack patients, (catheterization, coronary artery by-pass grafts and percutaneous transluminal...

Measuring inequality in self-reported health-discussion of a recently suggested approach using Finnish data

Jorgen Lauridsen, Terkel Christiansen, Unto Häkkinen

Health surveys often include a general question on self-assessed health (SAH), usually measured on an ordinal scale with three to five response categories, from 'very poor' or 'poor' to 'very good'...

Costs and effects in lumbar spinal fusion. A follow-up study in 136 consecutive patients with chronic low back pain

Soegaard, Rikke, Christensen, Finn Bjarke, Christiansen, Terkel, Bünger, Cody

Although cost-effectiveness is becoming the foremost evaluative criterion within health service management of spine surgery, scientific knowledge about cost-patterns and cost-effectiveness is...

The Danish health care system: evolution - not revolution - in a decentralized system

Kjeld Møller Pedersen, Terkel Christiansen, Mickael Bech

The Danish health care system has undergone gradual changes, but not radical reforms, from 1970 until 2004. Theoretically, the development can be viewed from the perspective of fiscal federalism,...

Decomposition of health inequality by determinants and dimensions

JØrgen Lauridsen, Terkel Christiansen, Jens Gundgaard, Unto Häkkinen, Harri Sintonen

The study integrates two methodologies so that income-related inequality in general health can be decomposed into contributions from socio-demographic characteristics to each of the dimensions...

Handling Value Added Tax (VAT) in Economic Evaluations: Should Prices Include VAT?

Mickael Bech, Terkel Christiansen, Dorte Gyrd-Hansen

In health economic evaluations, value added tax is commonly treated as a transfer payment. Following this argument, resources are valued equal to their net-of-tax prices in economic evaluations...

Determinants of cost-effectiveness in lumbar spinal fusion using the net benefit framework: a 2-year follow-up study among 695 patients

Soegaard, Rikke, Bünger, Cody E., Christiansen, Terkel, Christensen, Finn B.

Up to one third of patients undergoing lumbar spinal fusion show no improvement after the procedure and thus, despite evidence from RCTs, there might be a rationale for observational studies...

Drugs, sex, money and power: An HPV vaccine case study

Haas, Marion, Ashton, Toni, Blum, Kerstin, Christiansen, Terkel, Conis, Elena, Crivelli, Luca, ...

In this paper we compare the experiences of seven industrialized countries in considering approval and introduction of the world's first cervical cancer-preventing vaccine. Based on case studies,...