Ulf-G Gerdtham

Biographic Data

ID3927698
NAMEUlf-G Gerdtham
GIVEN NAMESUlf-G
FAMILY NAMEGerdtham
SIGNATUREGERDTHAM U
AFFILIATIONSJahangir Khan and Bjarne Jansson are with Division of Social Medicine, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Ulf-G. Gerdtham is with the Department of Community Medicine, Malmö University Hospital, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS28
TOTAL CITATIONS111
WORKS AS AUTHOR28
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1992
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX5

  • In search of an appropriate mix of taxes and subsidies on nutrients and food

    Open AccessSanjib Saha, Johan Nordstrom et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2021References: 40

  • Heterogeneity in the associations between common mental disorders and labour outcomes – a population study from southern Sweden

    Open AccessJohan Jarl, Audrey Linder et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    Heterogeneity in labour outcomes following a CMD diagnosis sometimes contributes to and sometimes mitigates inequalities in employment, sick leave and disability pension between population subgroups. When developing new strategies to tackle mental ill-health in the population, it may therefore be motivated to consider not only inequalities in the prevalence of mental disorders but also heterogeneity in associated adverse labour outcomes

  • Education, immigration and rising mental health inequality in Sweden

    Open AccessAudrey Linder, Anna Linder et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2020Cited by: 3References: 22

    Educational and income gradients in health are well established in the literature but there is need for a better understanding of how mental health inequalities change over time, and what drives the development. We aim to study how psychiatric diagnosis and its income-related inequality have changed over time in Sweden and to make a first attempt at disentangling the development by decomposing any changes in terms of changes in two important demo…

  • Economic Burden of Obesity

    Open AccessMaximilian Tremmel, Ulf-G Gerdtham et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2017

    Background: The rising prevalence of obesity represents an important public health issue. An assessment of its costs may be useful in providing recommendations for policy and decision makers. This systematic review aimed to assess the economic burden of obesity and to identify, measure and describe the different obesity-related diseases included in the selected studies. Methods: A systematic literature search of studies in the English language wa…

  • A general method for decomposing the causes of socioeconomic inequality in health

    Open AccessGawain Heckley, Ulf-Göran Gerdtham et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Economics2016

    We introduce a general decomposition method applicable to all forms of bivariate rank dependent indices of socioeconomic inequality in health, including the concentration index. The technique is based on recentered influence function regression and requires only the application of OLS to a transformed variable with similar interpretation. Our method requires few identifying assumptions to yield valid estimates in most common empirical application…

  • On correcting the concentration index for binary variables

    Open AccessGustav Kjellsson, Ulf-Göran Gerdtham et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Economics2013

    This article discusses measurement of socioeconomic inequalities in the prevalence of a health condition, in response to the recent exchange between Guido Erreygers and Adam Wagstaff, in which they discuss the merits of their own corrections to the frequently used concentration index. We first reconcile their debate and discuss the value judgments implicit in their indices. Next, we provide a formal definition of the previously undefined value ju…

  • Swedish experience-based value sets for EQ-5D health states

    Open AccessKristina Burström, Sun Sun et al.ARTICLEQuality of Life Research2013

    A value set for EQ-5D health states based on Swedish valuations has been lacking. Several authors have recently advocated the normative standpoint of using experience-based values. Guidelines of economic evaluation for reimbursement decisions in Sweden recommend the use of experience-based values for QALY calculations. Our results that anxiety/depression had the greatest impact on both TTO and VAS values underline the importance of mental health …

  • Socioeconomic inequalities in drug utilization for Sweden

    Open AccessMartin Nordin, Margareta Dackehag et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2013Cited by: 3References: 28

  • Wage penalty of abstinence and wage premium of drinking–A misclassification bias due to pooling of drinking groups

    Johan Jarl, Ulf-Göran Gerdtham et al.ARTICLEAddiction Research & Theory2010

    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 criticised because former drinkers have been included among the abstainers, which may overstate the protective effect of light alcohol consumption. It has also been proposed, but not shown, that the commonly pooled group of light drinkers and former heavy dr…

  • More equal but heavier

    Open AccessÅsa Ljungvall, Ulf-Göran Gerdtham et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2010Cited by: 7References: 27

  • Health financing for the poor produces promising short-term effects on utilization and out-of-pocket expenditure

    Open AccessHenrik Axelson, Sarah Bale et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2009

    The results indicate that the Health Care Fund for the Poor is meeting its objectives of increasing utilization and reducing out-of-pocket expenditure for the program's target population, despite numerous administrative problems resulting in delayed and only partial implementation in most provinces. The main lessons for low and middle-income countries from Vietnam's early experiences with the Health Care Fund for the Poor are that it managed to a…

  • More Detailed Data does not Always Raise the Costs

    Open AccessJohan Jarl, Mimmi Eriksson et al.ARTICLEContemporary Drug Problems2007References: 3

    The aim is to investigate the effect of availability and level of detail of data on cost estimates of alcohol consumption. Using the recent Swedish cost of alcohol study as baseline, limitations on data are applied, forming two models. The costs of alcohol in Sweden are re-estimated in the two models and compared to the baseline, to establish the magnitude and direction of the bias resulting from limited data, and which results are the most sensi…

  • Social capital and health

    Open AccessM Kamrul Islam, Juan Merlo et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2006

    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 for the review includes a systematic search on electronic databases for peer-reviewed published literature. We categorize studies according to level of analysis (single and multilevel) and examine whether studies reveal a significant health impact of i…

  • The ageing of society, health services provision and taxes

    Open AccessUlf-Göran Gerdtham, Ulf-G Gerdtham et al.ARTICLEJournal of Population Economics2005Cited by: 1References: 2

  • Hospital Level of Care and Neonatal Mortality in Low- and High-Risk Deliveries

    Juan Merlo, Ulf-Göran Gerdtham et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2005References: 16

    BACKGROUND: In high-risk births, the availability and concentration of neonatal resources in larger regional hospitals increases the chance of survival. The advantages of regionalization for low-risk deliveries are still unclear, but some studies have suggested that regionalization also is beneficial for low risk deliveries. The aim of the present study was to investigate both the relevance of regionalization and the concentration of neonatal res…

  • Business cycles and mortality

    Open AccessUlf-Göran Gerdtham, Ulf-G Gerdtham et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2005Cited by: 28References: 37

  • Absolute Income, Relative Income, Income Inequality, and Mortality

    Ulf-Göran Gerdtham, Ulf-G Gerdtham et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Human Resources2004

  • Effects of Macroeconomic Trends on Social Security Spending Due to Sickness and Disability

    Jahangir Khan, Ulf-Göran Gerdtham et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2004References: 10

    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 sickness and disability. Methods. We obtained aggregated panel data from 13 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development member countries for 1980–1996. We used regression analysis and fixed effect models to examine spending on sickness benefits, di…

  • Social inequalities in health- do they diminish with age? Revisiting the question in Sweden 1999

    Open AccessJuan Merlo, Ulf-Göran Gerdtham et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2003

    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 system. However, it has been discussed if social inequities in health diminish with age and we, hence, aimed to analyse this question. METHODS: We performed an age stratified cross-sectional analysis using averages, logistic and linear regression modell…

  • Does inequality in self-assessed health predict inequality in survival by income? Evidence from Swedish data

    Open AccessEddy Van Doorslaer, Ulf-Göran Gerdtham et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2003Cited by: 47References: 18

  • On the measurement of relative and absolute income-related health inequality

    Open AccessPhilip M Clarke, Philip Clarke et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2002Cited by: 13References: 8

  • The relationship between happiness, health, and socio-economic factors

    Open AccessUlf-Göran Gerdtham, Ulf-G Gerdtham et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Socio-Economics2001

  • Equity in the delivery of health care in Europe and the US

    Open AccessEddy Van Doorslaer, Adam Wagstaff et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Economics2000

  • Equity in the finance of health care

    Open AccessAdam Wagstaff, Eddy Van Doorslaer et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Economics1999

  • New estimates of the demand for health

    Open AccessUlf-Göran Gerdtham, Ulf-G Gerdtham et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine1999Cited by: 1References: 14