Curriculum Vitae
Professor Jan Abel Olsen

 
Institute of Community Medicine (ISM)
University of Tromsø (UiT)                                                     e-mail   jan.abel.olsen@ism.uit.no
9037  TROMSØ                                                                    tel.       + 47 - 77 64 48 32
Norway                                                                                  fax.      + 47 - 77 64 48 31

Education and degrees
Dr.philos, University of Tromsø (UiT), Norway Thesis: Some methodological issues in economic evaluation in health care
MSc in economic geography, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH), Bergen, Norway
MA in economics and business administration (‘siviløkonom’), NHH, including one year political science at the University of Bergen

Current positions
Professor of health economics and health services research, ISM, UiT
Part time researcher, Health Economics Research Programme, University of Oslo, Norway

Other affiliations
Member of the advisory panel for the Norwegian Centre for Health Technology Assessment.
Short term visiting professor, Bocconi University, Milano, Italy.

Teaching
Master of Public Health programme in Tromsø, http://www.ism.uit.no/fh.html
Master of Health Administration programme in Oslo, http://www.med.uio.no/ism/helseadm/
MIHMEP programme in Milano, http://www.sdabocconi.it/en/master/mihmep/

Research interests
Priority setting in health care – economic and ethical issues
Measurement and valuation of health outcomes
Socio-economic determinants of health
Financing of health care

Publications 1993-2003
Dolan P, Olsen JA: Distributing health care: Economic and ethical issues, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002 http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-263253-1

Articles in international peer-review journals
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, 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 (available online).

Olsen JA, Eidem JI. Explaining variations in charity donations: The case of Norwegian patient organisations,
Journal of Socio-Economics, 2003; 32: 457-466.

Dolan P, Olsen JA, Richardson J, Menzel P. An inquiry into the perspectives that can be used when eliciting preferences in health, Health Economics, 2003; 12: 545-551.

Menzel P, Dolan P, Richardson J, Olsen JA. The Role of Adaptation to Disability and Disease in Health State Valuation:
A Preliminary Normative Analysis, Social Science and Medicine, 2002; 55: 2149-2158.

Dolan P, Olsen JA. Equity in health: the importance of different health streams, Journal of Health Economics, 2001; 20: 823-834.

Olsen JA, Smith R. Theory versus practice: A review of ‘willingness-to-pay’ in health and health care,
Health Economics, 2001; 10: 39-52.

Stavem K, Kristiansen IS, Olsen JA. Association of time preference for health with age and disease severity,
The European Journal of Health Economics, 2002; 3: 120-124.

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, Donaldson. C. Helicopters, hearts and hips: Using willingness to pay to set priorities for public sector health care programmes, Social Science and Medicine, 1998; 46: 1-12.

Donaldson C, Jones AM, Mapp TJ, Olsen JA. Limited dependent variables in willingness to pay studies: applications in health care, Applied Economics, 1998; 30: 667-677.

Olsen JA: Aiding priority setting in health care: Is there a role for the Contingent Valuation method?
Health Economics, 1997; 6: 603-612.

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

Norum J, Olsen, JA, Wist EA: Lumpectomy or mastectomy? Is breast conserving surgery too expencive?, Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 1997; 45:7-14.

Norum J, Olsen, JA: A cost-effectiveness approach to the Norwegian follow-up programme in colorectal cancer,
Annals of Oncology, 1997; 8: 1081-87.

Norum J, Vonen B, Olsen JA, Revhaug A. Adjuvant chemotherapy (5-fluorouracil and levamisole) in Dukes' B and C colorectal carcinoma. A cost-effectiveness analysis.Annals of Oncology, 1997 Jan; 8(1):65-70. 

Norum J, Angelsen V, Wist E, Olsen JA: Treatment costs in Hodgkin's disease: A cost-utility analysis,
European Journal of Cancer, 1996;  32 (9): 1510-1517.

Olsen JA: Production gains: Should they count in health care evaluations? Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 1994; 41: 69-84.

Olsen JA: Persons vs years: Two ways of eliciting implicit weights, Health Economics, 1994; 3: 39-46.

Clark D, Olsen JA: Agency in health care with an endogenous budget constraint, Journal of Health Economics, 1994; 13: 231-251.

Olsen JA: But health can still be a necessity  ..., Journal of Health Economics, 1993; 12: 187-191.

Olsen JA: On what basis should health be discounted? Journal of Health Economics, 1993; 12: 39-53.

Olsen JA: Time Preferences for Health Gains: An Empirical Investigation, Health Economics, 1993; 2: 257-265.

Article in national peer-review journals
Olsen JA, Hofoss D. Hvor mye penger vil vi bruke på helsevesenet? (How much are we willing to spend on the health services?)
Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen 2000; 120: 779-82.