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This article examines the extent to which differences in life-expectancy are associated with shifts in average hospital costs for different age groups. The size of the shift is important because it makes a large difference to the importance of demographic factors when projecting future health...
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Analyser av korttidseffekter av de finansielle virkemidlene i Samhandlingsreformen, i første rekke betalingsordningen for utskrivningsklare pasienter og kommunal medfinansiering av innleggelser innen medisinske DRG-er.
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The paper examines the heterogeneity with respect to the impact of a financial reform - Activity Based Financing (ABF) - on hospital efficiency in Norway. Measures of technical efficiency and of cost-efficiency are considered. The data set is from a contiguous ten-year panel of 47 hospitals...
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This paper explores how collective social norms can have individual-level genetic foundation. Our study is the first we know to report a plausible link between genetically founded individual preferences in a fraction of a population and social norms governing behavior of all individuals. As our...
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In the Norwegian health care system equal distribution and access to care regardless of social status, gender, ethnicity and area of living has been raised as an important issue. This paper studies the extent to which the principle of “equal access” to specialized health care is maintained...
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I denne artikkelen viser forfatterne Guttormsen, Moger og Kristiansen hvordan vi kan analysere verdien av informasjon i helseøkonomisk evaluering. I de fleste analyser er det usikkerhet knyttet til både helseeffekter og kostnader, i noen tilfeller kan denne usikkerheten reduseres ved å...
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I denne artikkelen drøfter forfatterne bruk av nyere metoder innen økonomisk evaluering som samfunnet kan bruke for å prioritere mellom ulike behandlinger der både effektene og kostnadene er usikre. Tradisjonelt har man brukt p-verdier når man skal vurdere om én behandling er bedre enn en...
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We study Body Mass Index (BMI) changes among immigrants from Iran, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Turkey, and Vietnam relative to native Norwegians in Oslo. We test a symmetric convergence hypothesis: irrespective of whether an immigrant’s initial BMI is lower or higher than a native Norwegian,...
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Dette er en oppfølgingsstudie om hvordan norske somatiske sykehus er organisert internt. Den første kartleggingen ble gjort i 2001. Denne studien er noe modifisert ved at enkelte spørsmål som ikke fungerte sist er fjernet, noen nye spørsmål er lagt til, samt at undersøkelsen er mer...
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In this explorative study we examine factors explaining individual choice of lifestyle. The empirical analysis of smoking, exercising and diet show that the mechanisms determining people’s lifestyle are complex. We argue that the economic models on the demand for health is a meaningful...
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