Axelson, Henrik, Bales, Sarah, Minh, Pham, Ekman, Björn, Gerdtham, Ulf-G
Abstract Background Vietnam introduced the Health Care Fund for the Poor in 2002 to increase access to health care and reduce the financial burden of health expenditure faced by the poor and ethnic...
Till vilket pris? Om alkoholens kostnader och hälsoeffekter i Sverige 2002 (2009)
Jarl, Johan, Johansson, Pia, Eriksson, Antonina, Eriksson, Mimmi, Gerdtham, Ulf-G., Hemström, Örjan, ...
Societal costs of air pollution-related health hazards: A review of methods and results (2008)
Pervin, Tanjima, Gerdtham, Ulf-G, Lyttkens, Carl
Abstract This paper aims to provide a critical and systematic review of the societal costs of air pollution-related ill health (CAP), to explore methodological issues that may be important when...
[Is Denmark a Swedish health risk? Analysis of alcohol-related hospitalization in Scania] (2007)
Jarl, Johan, Gerdtham, Ulf-G, Lyttkens, Carl Hampus, Lithman, Thor, Merlo, Juan
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Social capital and health: Does egalitarianism matter? A literature review (2006)
Islam, M Kamrul, Merlo, Juan, Kawachi, Ichiro, Lindström, Martin, Gerdtham, Ulf-G
Abstract The aim of the paper is to critically review the notion of social capital and review empirical literature on the association between social capital and health across countries. The...
Merlo, Juan, Håkansson, Anders, Beckman, Anders, Lindström, Martin, Lindblad, Ulf, Gerdtham, Ulf-G, ...
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Merlo, Juan, Håkansson, Anders, Beckman, Anders, Lindblad, Ulf, Lindström, Martin, Gerdtham, Ulf-G, ...
It is a known fact that the 1990s brought a decrease in mortality after myocardial infarction in Sweden but that differences in mortality rates following myocardial infarction still remain between...
Merlo, Juan, Gerdtham, Ulf-G, Eckerlund, Ingemar, Håkansson, Stefan, Otterblad-Olausson, Petra, Pakkanen, Milla, ...
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Jarl, Johan, Gerdtham, Ulf-G, Lyttkens, Carl, Lithman, Thor, Merlo, Juan
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Why did drug spending increase during the 1990s?: a decomposition based on Swedish data. (2004)
Gerdtham, Ulf-G, Lundin, Douglas
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Merlo, Juan, Gerdtham, Ulf-G, Lynch, John, Beckman, Anders, Norlund, Anders, Lithman, Thor
Abstract Background Individuals with low income have poorer health and should, therefore, have higher health expenditure than people with high income particularly in countries with a universal health...
Merlo, Juan, Gerdtham, Ulf-G, Lynch, John, Beckman, Anders, Norlund, Anders, Lithman, Thor
BACKGROUND: Individuals with low income have poorer health and should, therefore, have higher health expenditure than people with high income particularly in countries with a universal health care...
notice, is given to the source. Deaths Rise in Good Economic Times: Evidence From the OECD (2002)
Ulf-g. Gerdtham, Christopher J. Ruhm, Ulf-g. Gerdtham, Christopher J. Ruhm, Jel No. E, Ulf-g. Gerdtham, ...
Foundation (SES9876511) to Ruhm is gratefully acknowledged. The opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the...
Redistributive effects of the Swedish social insurance system (2002)
Khan, Jahangir, Gerdtham, Ulf-G., Jansson, Bjarne
Background: Four principles are used to distribute payments via the Swedish social‐insurance system in cases of temporary or permanent illness and death. This paper studies the redistributive...
The Danish effect on Swedish alcohol costs
Johan Jarl, Ulf-G. Gerdtham, Carl Lyttkens, Thor Lithman, Juan Merlo
Alcohol, Cost of illness, Inpatient care, Cross-border shopping,
Social inequalities in health- do they diminish with age? Revisiting the question in Sweden 1999
Merlo, Juan, Gerdtham, Ulf-G, Lynch, John, Beckman, Anders, Norlund, Anders, Lithman, Thor
Social capital and health: Does egalitarianism matter? A literature review
Islam, M Kamrul, Merlo, Juan, Kawachi, Ichiro, Lindström, Martin, Gerdtham, Ulf-G
The aim of the paper is to critically review the notion of social capital and review empirical literature on the association between social capital and health across countries. The methodology used...
International comparisons of health expenditure: Theory, data and econometric analysis
Gerdtham, Ulf-G., Jonsson, Bengt, A. J. Culyer, J. P. Newhouse
Comparisons of aggregate health expenditure across different countries have become popular over the last three decades as they permit a systematic investigation of the impact of different...
Effects of Macroeconomic Trends on Social Security Spending Due to Sickness and Disability
Khan, Jahangir, Gerdtham, Ulf-G., Jansson, Bjarne
Objectives. We analyzed the relationship between macroeconomic conditions, measured as unemployment rate and social security spending, from 4 social security schemes and total spending due to...
Social inequalities in health- do they diminish with age? Revisiting the question in Sweden 1999
Merlo, Juan, Gerdtham, Ulf-G, Lynch, John, Beckman, Anders, Norlund, Anders, Lithman, Thor
Effects of Macroeconomic Trends on Social Security Spending Due to Sickness and Disability
Khan, Jahangir, Gerdtham, Ulf-G., Jansson, Bjarne
Objectives. We analyzed the relationship between macroeconomic conditions, measured as unemployment rate and social security spending, from 4 social security schemes and total spending due to...
Social capital and health: Does egalitarianism matter? A literature review
Islam, M Kamrul, Merlo, Juan, Kawachi, Ichiro, Lindström, Martin, Gerdtham, Ulf-G
The aim of the paper is to critically review the notion of social capital and review empirical literature on the association between social capital and health across countries. The methodology used...
Equity in Swedish health care reconsidered: new results based on the finite mixture model
Ulf-G. Gerdtham, Pravin K. Trivedi
This paper reconsiders the equity issue in Swedish health care utilization previously analysed by Gerdtham (Health Econ 1997; 6: 303-319) within the framework of the standard two-part model....
A note on the decomposition of the health concentration index
Philip M. Clarke, Ulf-G Gerdtham, Luke B. Connelly
In recent work, the concentration index has been widely used as a measure of income-related health inequality. The purpose of this note is to illustrate two different methods for decomposing the...
Do Life-Saving Regulations Save Lives?
Gerdtham, Ulf-G, Johannesson, Magnus
Life-saving regulations may be counter-productive since they have an indirect mortality effect through the reduction in disposable income. This paper estimates the effect of income on mortality,...
Islam, M. Kamrul, Merlo, Juan, Kawachi, Ichiro, Lindstr M, Martin, Burstr M, Kristina, Gerdtham, Ulf-G.
We test whether individual health status is related to area-level social capital measured by rates of voting participation in municipal political elections, controlling for personal characteristics,...
Wagstaff, Adam, Van Doorslaer, Eddy, Van Der Burg, Hattem, Calonge, Samuel, Christiansen, Terkel, Citoni, Guido, ...
Why Did Drug Spending Increase During the 1990s?: A Decomposition Based on Swedish Data
Ulf-G. Gerdtham, Douglas Lundin
Objective: To decompose drug spending in Sweden between the years 1990 and 2000. This paper updates a previous study, which looked at the period 1990-1995, by providing an additional 5 years of data...
Equity in the delivery of health care in Europe and the US
Van Doorslaer, Eddy, Wagstaff, Adam, Van Der Burg, Hattem, Christiansen, Terkel, De Graeve, Diana, Duchesne, Inge, ...
Equity in the finance of health care: some further international comparisons1
Wagstaff, Adam, Van Doorslaer, Eddy, Van Der Burg, Hattem, Calonge, Samuel, Christiansen, Terkel, Citoni, Guido, ...
The redistributive effect of health care finance in twelve OECD countries
Van Doorslaer, Eddy, Wagstaff, Adam, Van Der Burg, Hattem, Christiansen, Terkel, Citoni, Guido, Di Biase, Rita, ...
Income-related inequalities in health: some international comparisons
Van Doorslaer, Eddy, Wagstaff, Adam, Bleichrodt, Han, Calonge, Samuel, Gerdtham, Ulf-G., Gerfin, Michael, ...
Willingness to pay for antihypertensive therapy -- further results
Johannesson, Magnus, Johansson, Per-Olov, Kristrom, Bengt, Gerdtham, Ulf-G.
An econometric analysis of health care expenditure: A cross-section study of the OECD countries
Gerdtham, Ulf-G., Sogaard, Jes, Andersson, Fredrik, Jonsson, Bengt
Deaths Rise in Good Economic Times: Evidence From the OECD
Gerdtham, Ulf-G., Ruhm, Christopher J.
This study uses aggregate data for 23 OECD countries over the 1960-1997 period to examine the relationship between macroeconomic conditions and fatalities. The main finding is that total mortality...
Variation in cesarean section rates in Sweden - Causes and economic consequences
Eckerlund, Ingemar, Gerdtham, Ulf-G
The average cesarean section rate in Sweden more than doubled during the 1970s, and amounted to 12-3 percent in 1983. After that, there was a steady-state for a couple of years and towards the end of...
Redistributive Effects of the Swedish Health Care Financing System
Gerdtham, Ulf-G., Sundberg, Gun
The paper investigates the redistributive effects of the Swedish health care financing system in 1980 and 1990 for four different financial sources: County council taxes, payroll taxes, direct...
Equity in Health Care Utilisation: Further Tests Based on Hurdle models and Swedish Micro Data
This paper tests the null hypothesis of no horisontal inequity in delivery of health care by use of count data Hurdle models and swedish micro data. It differs from most earlier work in three...
Measuring Income-Related Health Inequalities in Sweden
Gerdtham, Ulf-G, Sundberg, Gun
In Sweden, health, measured as self-assessed health, is distributed fairly evenly in an international perspective. The purpose of this paper is to study whether specific disorders and diseases also...
Gerdtham, Ulf-G., Rehnberg, Clas, Tambour, Magnus
A purchaser/provider split together with output- based reimbursement were recently introduced by several Swedish county councils. These changes have been motivated by arguments of efficiency and...
Gerdtham, Ulf-G, Johannesson, Magnus
In this paper we estimate a 'Grossman' model of demand for health based on Swedish micro data. The data set consists of a random sample of over 5,000 individuals taken from the Swedish adult...
Gerdtham, Ulf-G, Johannesson, Magnus
This paper investigates the relationship between happiness (utility) and a host of socio-economic variables. The data set consists of a random sample of over 5,000 individuals from the Swedish adult...
Internal Markets and Health Care Efficiency: A Multiple-Output Stochastic Frontier Analysis
Gerdtham, Ulf-G., Löthgren, Mickael, Tambour, Magnus, Rehnberg, Clas
This paper has two purposes. The first purpose is methodological and aims to extend previous work on efficiency analysis by implementing a multiple-output stochastic ray frontier production function...
On stationarity and cointegration of international health expenditure and GDP
Gerdtham, Ulf-G., Löthgren, Mickael
The recent findings by McCoskey and Selden (1997, Journal of Health Economics, forthcoming) that health expenditure and GDP are stationary are driven by the omission of time trends in their ADF...
Health Care System Effects on Cost Efficiency in the OECD Countries
Gerdtham, Ulf-G., Löthgren, Mickael
This paper investigates the effects of different health systems on cost efficiency in inpatient health care among the OECD countries. The results indicate that public contract systems are less...
International Health Expenditure and GDP: New Multivariate Cointegration Panel Data Results
Gerdtham, Ulf-G., Löthgren, Mickael
In this paper we test for existence of cointegration between health expenditure and GDP using data from 19 OECD countries for the period 1960-1995. Country-by-country and panel results based on the...
Income-Related Inequality in Life-Years and Quality-Adjusted Life-Years
Gerdtham, Ulf-G., Johannesson, Magnus
We estimate the income-related inequality in Sweden with respect to life-years and quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs). We use a large data-set from Sweden with over 40,000 individuals followed up...
Equity in Swedish Health Care Reconsidered: New Results based on the Finite Mixture Model
Gerdtham, Ulf-G., Trivedi, Pravin K.
This paper reconsiders the equity issue in Swedish health care utilisation previously analyzed by Gerdtham (Health Economics 6, 303-319, 1997) within the framework of the standard two-part model....
Predicting Survival in cost-effectiveness analyses based on clinical trials
Gerdtham, Ulf-G, Zethraeus, Niklas
This paper deals with the question how to model health effects after the cessation of a randomised controlled trial (RCT). Using clinical trial data on severe congestive heart failure patients we...
Health System Effects on Cost Efficiency in the OECD Countries.
Gerdtham, Ulf-G, Lothgren, Mickael
This paper investigates the effects of different health systems on cost efficiency in inpatient health care among the OECD countries. The results indicate that public contract systems are more...
The Effect of Changes in Treatment Patterns on Drug Expenditure
Ulf-G. Gerdtham, Magnus Johannesson, Bo Gunnarsson, Margareta Marcusson, Freddie Henriksson
This paper investigates the effects of changes in drug therapy on drug expenditure in Sweden between 1990 and 1995. Analyses have been carried out for both the aggregate drug expenditure and for drug...
Price Indices of Drugs and the Switching to New Drugs: Two Empirical Examples
Ulf-G Gerdtham, Magnus Johannesson, Bo Gunnarsson, Margareta Marcusson, Freddie Henriksson
Standard price indices may not account for the price decrease that results when patients switch to pharmaceutical products for which their demand-reservation price exceeds the price of the new...
Societal costs of air pollution-related health hazards: A review of methods and results
Pervin, Tanjima, Gerdtham, Ulf-G, Lyttkens, Carl Hampus
This paper aims to provide a critical and systematic review of the societal costs of air pollution-related ill health (CAP), to explore methodological issues that may be important when assessing or...
Social capital externalities and mortality in Sweden
Islam, M. Kamrul, Gerdtham, Ulf-G., Gullberg, Bo, Lindström, Martin, Merlo, Juan
We conceptualize social capital as an aggregate factor affecting health production and analyze the effect of community social capital (CSC) externalities on individual mortality risk in Sweden. The...
The ageing of society, health services provision and taxes
Ulf-G. Gerdtham, Douglas Lundin, Maria Sáez-Martí
H1, I10, C23, Health care, panel data, ageing, voting,
Optimal recall length in survey design
Clarke, Philip M., Fiebig, Denzil G., Gerdtham, Ulf-G.
Self-reported data collected via surveys are a key input into a wide range of research conducted by economists. It is well known that such data are subject to measurement error that arises when...
Longitudinal analysis of income-related health inequality
Paul Allanson, Ulf-G Gerdtham, Dennis Petrie
This paper considers the characterisation and measurement of income-related health inequality using longitudinal data. The paper elucidates the nature of the Jones and Lopez Nicholas (2004) index of...
Deaths Rise in Good Economic Times: Evidence From the OECD
Ulf-G. Gerdtham, Christopher J. Ruhm
This study uses aggregate data for 23 OECD countries over the 1960-1997 period to examine the relationship between macroeconomic conditions and fatalities. The main finding is that total mortality...
Johan Jarl, Pia Johansson, Antonina Eriksson, Mimmi Eriksson, Ulf-G. Gerdtham, Örjan Hemström, ...
Alcohol, Sweden, Social cost, COI, Quality of life,
Several studies have found protective effects of low/moderate (hereafter “light”) alcohol consumption compared with “abstinence” on mortality, health and wage. Some of these studies have been...
Ljungvall , Åsa, Gerdtham , Ulf-G
Using longitudinal data over a 17 year period for a Swedish cohort aged 20-68 in 1980/81, this study analyses income-related inequalities in obesity. By use of the concentration index and...
Ulf-G Gerdtham, Philip Clarke, Alison Hayes, Soffia Gudbjornsdottir
Background and aims: To estimate short- and long-term costs of inpatient hospitalization in Sweden for major diabetes mellitus-related events. Materials and methods: Costs were estimated using...
Absolute Income, Relative Income, Income Inequality, and Mortality
Ulf-G. Gerdtham, Magnus Johannesson
We test whether mortality is related to individual income, mean community income, and community income inequality, controlling for initial health status and personal characteristics. The analysis is...