Ole Frithjof
Norheim
Professor
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Kalfarveien 31
5018 Bergen
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Postboks 7804
5018 Bergen
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Books
- 2013. Inequalities in health: concepts, measures, and ethics. Oxford University Press. 368 pages. ISBN: 978-0-19-993139-2.
- 2013. Consolidated guidelines on the use of antiretroviral drugs for treating and preventing hiv infection. Recommendations for a public health approach. 267 pages. ISBN: 9789241505727.
Journal articles
- 2014. Availability and access in modern obstetric care: a retrospective population-based study. BJOG: an International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. 121: 290-299. doi: 10.1111/1471-0528.12510
- 2014. Work Participation Among the Morbidly Obese Seeking Bariatric Surgery: An Exploratory Study from Norway. Obesity Surgery. Published 2014-07-01. doi: 10.1007/s11695-014-1333-8
- 2014. Valuing vaccines using value of statistical life measures. Vaccine. 32: 5065-5070. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.07.003
- 2014. Making use of equity sensitive QALYs: A case study on identifying the worse off across diseases. Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation. 12:16. doi: 10.1186/1478-7547-12-16
- 2014. The role of evidence in the decision-making process of selecting essential medicines in developing countries: the cCase of Tanzania. PLoS ONE. 9. 10 pages. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084824
- 2014. Cost-effectiveness of dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine compared with artemether-lumefantrine for treating uncomplicated malaria in children at a district hospital in Tanzania. Malaria Journal. 13:363. doi: 10.1186/1475-2875-13-363
- 2014. Global, regional, and national incidence and mortality for HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria during 1990—2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013. The Lancet. 384: 1005-1070. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)60844-8
- 2014. Economic cost of primary prevention of cardiovascular diseases in Tanzania. Health Policy and Planning. 1-10. doi: 10.1093/heapol/czu088
- 2014. Guidance on priority setting in health care (GPS-Health): The inclusion of equity criteria not captured by cost-effectiveness analysis. Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation. 12:18. doi: 10.1186/1478-7547-12-18
- 2014. Lifetime QALY prioritarianism in priority setting: Quantification of the inherent trade-off. Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation. 12:2. doi: 10.1186/1478-7547-12-2
- 2014. Taking equality seriously: Applying human rights frameworks to priority setting in health. Human Rights Quarterly. 36: 296-324. doi: 10.1353/hrq.2014.0027
- 2014. Maternal and neonatal mortality in south-west ethiopia: Estimates and socio-economic inequality. PLoS ONE. 9. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096294
- 2013. Balancing efficiency, equity and feasibility of HIV treatment in South Africa – development of programmatic guidance. Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation. 11. doi: 10.1186/1478-7547-11-26
- 2013. Availability and access in modern obstetric care: a retrospective population-based cohort study. BJOG: an International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. 120: 412-413.
- 2013. Skal rusmiddelavhengige pasienter tilbys hjerteklaffkirurgi for andre gang? Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening. 133: 977-980. doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.12.0779
- 2013. Fagkritikkens utfordringer. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening. 133: 499. doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.13.0174
- 2013. Styrer budsjettkonsekvens norske refusjonsprioriteringar? Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening. 133: 1841-1843. doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.13.0215
- 2013. Disease control priorities for neglected tropical diseases: lessons from priority ranking based on the quality of evidence, cost effectiveness, severity of disease, catastrophic health expenditures, and loss of productivity. Developing World Bioethics. doi: 10.1111/dewb.12016
- 2013. Health inequalities in Ethiopia: modeling inequalities in length of life within and between population groups. International Journal for Equity in Health. 12. 8 pages. doi: 10.1186/1475-9276-12-52
- 2012. When you can't have the cake and eat it too. A study of medical doctors' priorities in complex choice situations. Social Science and Medicine. 75: 1964-1973. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.08.005
- 2012. Comparative effectiveness of antihypertensive medication of primary prevention of cardiovascular disease: Systematic review and multiple treatments meta-analysis. BMC Medicine. 10. Published 2012-04-05. doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-10-33
- 2012. Can cost-effictiveness analysis integrate concerns for equity? Systematic review. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care. 28: 125-132. doi: 10.1017/S0266462312000050
- 2012. A universal preference for equality in health? Reasons to reconsider properties of applied social welfare functions. Social Science and Medicine. 75: 1836-1843. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.07.001
- 2012. Priority setting: the importance of incorporating opportunity costs. Israel Journal of Health Policy Research. 1. 2 pages. doi: 10.1186/2045-4015-1-45
- 2012. Prioritizing child health interventions in Ethiopia: modeling impact on child mortality, life expectancy and inequality in age at death. PLoS ONE. 7. 9 pages. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041521
- 2012. Medisinske metodevurderinger (HTA) for bedre prioriteringer av helsetjenester. Michael Quarterly. 9: 174-182.
- 2012. Addressing inequity to achieve the maternal and child health millennium development goals: looking beyond averages. BMC Public Health. 12. 7 pages. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-1119
- 2012. Challenges to fair decision-making processes in the context of health care services: a qualitative assessment from Tanzania. International Journal for Equity in Health. 11. 12 pages. doi: 10.1186/1475-9276-11-30
- 2012. Choice of generic antihypertensive drugs for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease - A cost-effectiveness analysis. BMC Cardiovascular Disorders. 12. 12 pages. doi: 10.1186/1471-2261-12-26
- 2011. Fairness in service choice: an important yet underdeveloped path to universal coverage. Tropical medicine & international health. 16: 838-839. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2011.02780.x
- 2011. MAPPING OUT STRUCTURAL FEATURES IN CLINICAL CARE CALLING FOR ETHICAL SENSITIVITY: A THEORETICAL APPROACH TO PROMOTE ETHICAL COMPETENCE IN HEALTHCARE PERSONNEL AND CLINICAL ETHICAL SUPPORT SERVICES (CESS). Bioethics. 25: 394-402. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8519.2011.01909.x
- 2011. Priorities in global health. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening. 131. doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.11.0743
- 2011. HIV priorities and health distributions in a rural region in Tanzania: a qualitative study. Journal of Medical Ethics. 37: 221-226. doi: 10.1136/jme.2010.038570
- 2011. Problems With Prioritization: Exploring Ethical Solutions to Inequalities in HIV Care. American Journal of Bioethics. 11: 32-40. doi: 10.1080/15265161.2011.627287
- 2011. Norway's new principles for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease: age differentiated risk thresholds. BMJ (British Medical Journal). 343. 7 pages. doi: 10.1136/bmj.d3626
- 2011. Incorporating concerns for equal lifetime health in evaluations of public health programs. Social Science and Medicine. 72: 1711-1716. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.03.032
- 2011. Equity implications of coverage and use of insecticide treated nets distributed for free or with co-payment in two districts in Tanzania: A cross-sectional comparative household survey. International Journal for Equity in Health. 10. 8 pages. doi: 10.1186/1475-9276-10-29
- 2010. Etikk i legevakt. Utposten.
- 2010. Disability compensation and responsibility. Politics, Philosophy and Economics. 9: 411-427.
- 2010. Disability compensation and responsibility. Politics, Philosophy and Economics. 9: 411-427. doi: 10.1177/1470594X09359154
- 2010. Global helseprioritering. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.).
- 2010. Further benefits by early start of HIV treatment in low income countries: survival estimates of early versus deferred antiretroviral therapy. AIDS research and therapy. 7. doi: 10.1186/1742-6405-7-3
- 2010. End-of-life decisions as bedside rationing. An ethical analysis of life support restrictions in an Indian neonatal unit. Journal of Medical Ethics. 36: 473-478. doi: 10.1136/jme.2010.035535
- 2010. Gini Impact Analysis: Measuring Pure Health Inequity Before and After Interventions. Public Health Ethics. 3: 282-292.
- 2010. Priority To The Young Or To Those With Least Lifetime Health? American Journal of Bioethics. 10: 60-61. doi: 10.1080/15265161003697305
- 2009. Høykostnadsmedisin - mangler vi åpne og legitime prosedyrer for prioritering? Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening. 129: 17-20. doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.2009.31846
- 2009. INCORPORATING EQUITY IN COST-EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW. Value in Health. 12: A230-A230.
- 2009. Fairness and accountability for reasonableness. Do the views of priority setting decision makers differ across health systems and levels of decision making? Social Science and Medicine. 68: 766-773. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.11.011
- 2009. Impact of Ethics and Economics on End-of-Life Decisions in an Indian Neonatal Unit. Pediatrics. 124: E322-E328. doi: 10.1542/peds.2008-3227
- 2009. Eliciting people's preferences for the distribution of health: A procedure for a more precise estimation of distributional weights. Journal of Health Economics. 28: 570-577. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2009.02.008
- 2009. A note on Brock: prioritarianism, egalitarianism and the distribution of life years. Journal of Medical Ethics. 35: 565-569. doi: 10.1136/jme.2008.028845
- 2009. The ideal of equal health revisited: definitions and measures of inequity in health should be better integrated with theories of distributive justice. International Journal for Equity in Health. 8. 9 pages. doi: 10.1186/1475-9276-8-40
- 2009. Is the selection of patients for anti-retroviral treatment in Uganda fair? A qualitative study. Health Policy. 91: 33-42. doi: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2008.11.001
- 2008. Genomics and equal opportunity ethics. Journal of Medical Ethics. 34: 361-364.
- 2008. Genomics and equal opportunity ethics. Journal of Medical Ethics. 34: 361-364. doi: 10.1136/jme.2007.021162
- 2008. Variation in practice: A questionnaire survey of how congruence in attitudes between doctors and patients influences referral decisions. Medical decision making. 28: 262-268. doi: 10.1177/0272989X07311751
- 2008. "What lies beneath it all?" - an interview study of GPs' attitudes to the use of guidelines. BMC Health Services Research. 8. doi: 10.1186/1472-6963-8-218
- 2008. Seguro Popular - en helsereform for de fattigste. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening. 128: 1860-1863.
- 2008. National HIV treatment guidelines in Tanzania and Ethiopia: are they legitimate rationing tools? Journal of Medical Ethics. 34: 478-483. doi: 10.1136/jme.2007.021329
- 2008. Etiske valg ved medisinsk nytteløs behandling. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening. 128: 2185-2189.
- 2008. Distribution matters: Equity considerations among health planners in Tanzania. Health Policy. 85: 218-227. doi: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2007.07.012
- 2007. Livsforlengende behandling - analyse av to kasuistikker. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening. 127: 878-881.
- 2007. Priority setting at the micro-, meso- and macro-levels in Canada, Norway and Uganda. Health Policy. 82: 78-94. doi: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2006.09.001
- 2007. Combining evidence and values in priority setting: testing the balance sheet method in a low-income country. BMC Health Services Research. 7. Published 2007-09-24. doi: 10.1186/1472-6963-7-152
- 2007. Physicians' use of guidelines and attitudes to withholding and withdrawing treatment for extremely premature neonates in Norway. Acta Paediatrica. 96: 825-829. doi: 10.1111/j.1651-2227.2007.00309.x
- 2007. Cost-effectiveness of medical interventions to prevent cardiovascular disease in a sub-Saharan African country - the case of Tanzania. Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation. 5. Published 2007-02-22. doi: 10.1186/1478-7547-5-3
- 2006. Responsibility, fairness and rationing in health care. Health Policy. 76: 312-319.
- 2006. Responsibility, fairness and rationing in health care. Health Policy. 76: 312-319. doi: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2005.06.013
- 2006. My job is to keep him alive, but what about his brother and sister? How Indian doctors experience ethical dilemmas in neonatal medicine. Developing World Bioethics. 1: 23-32.
- 2006. Soft paternalism and the ethics of shared electronic patient records - It's ethically sound for patients to opt out. BMJ (British Medical Journal). 333: 7557.
- 2005. Responsibility in health care: a liberal egalitarian approach. Journal of Medical Ethics. 31: 476-480.
- 2005. Responsibility in health care: a liberal egalitarian approach. Journal of Medical Ethics. 31: 476-480.
- 2005. “Saying no is no easy matter”. A qualitative study of competing concerns in rationing decisions in general practice. BMC Health Services Research. 5. 19 pages.
- 2005. Hva hindrer åpenhet om prioriteringer? Tidsskrift for velferdsforskning. 8: 73-80.
- 2005. Rights to specialized health care in Norway: a normative perspective. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. 33: 641-649.
- 2005. Availability, distribution and use of emergency obstetric care in northern Tanzania. Health Policy and Planning. 20: 167-175. doi: 10.1093/heapol/czi022
- 2005. Human resources for emergency obstetric care in northern Tanzania: distribution of quantity or quality? Human Resources for Health. 3. 12 pages.
- 2004. Hvordan påvirker fastlegeordningen legens skjønnsmessige<BR/>avgjørelser? Tidsskrift for velferdsforskning. Årg. 7, nr 1. 33-47.
- 2004. Is cost-effectiveness analysis preferred to severity of disease as the main guiding principle in priority setting in resource poor settings? The case of Uganda. Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation. 2. doi: 10.1186/1478-7547-2-1
- 2004. Criteria for priority-setting in health care in Uganda: exploration of stakeholders' values. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 82: 172-179.
- 2004. Complicated deliveries, critical care and quality in emergency obstetric care in Northern Tanzania. International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics. 87. 98-108.
- 2003. Introduction of the Patient-list System in General Practice: Changes in Norwegian Physicians Perception of their Gatekeeper Role. Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care. 21: 209-213.
- 2003. Public participation in health planning and priority setting at the district level in Uganda. Health Policy and Planning. 18: 205-213.
- 2003. Using burden of disease information for health planning in developing countries: the experience from Uganda. Social Science and Medicine. 56: 2433-2441.
- 2003. The relationship between prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV and stakeholder decision making in Uganda: Implications for health policy. Health Policy. 66: 199-211.
- 2003. Hvor mye vil samfunnet betale? Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening. 123: 303-303.
- 2002. Whose priorities count? Comparison of community-identified health problems and Burden-of-Disease-assessed health priorities in a district in Uganda. Health Expectations. 5: 55-62.
- 2001. New guidelines for priority setting in Norway: Are they applicable for the evaluation of new health care services? Health Policy. 56: 65-79.
- 2001. Kunnskap må kombineres med verdier ved beslutninger under usikkerhet. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening. 121: 1387-1390.
- 2000. Kan økonomene gi oss mer helse? Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). Published 2000-11-02.
- 2000. Alendronat også til kvinner uten etablert osteoporose? Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening. 120: 1347-1351.
- 2000. Alendronat også til kvinner uten etablert osteoporose? Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening. 120: 1347-1351.
- 2000. Limiting access to allogeneic bone marrow transplantation in five European countries: what can we learn about implicit rationing? Health Policy. 52: 149-156.
- 2000. Limiting access to allogeneic bone marrow transplantation in five European countries: what can we learn about implicit rationing? Health Policy. 52: 149-156.
- 2000. Legen - den enøyde samaritan? Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening. 120: 1207-1209.
- 2000. Legen - den enøyde samaritan? Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening. 120: 1207-1209.
- 1999. Access to Health Care in the Scandinavian Countries: Ethical Aspects. Health Care Analysis. 321-330.
- 1999. Alendronate and Fracture Prevention (Letter to the Editor). Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). 282: 232.
- 1999. Healthcare rationing - are additional criteria needed for assessing evidence based clinical practice guidelines? BMJ (British Medical Journal). 319: 1426-1429.
Reports and theses
- 2013. The Badness of Death at Early Age. A philosophical inquiry into the Deprivation Account and the Time-Relative Interest Account on The Badness of Death. Universitetet i Bergen, Bergen. 106 pages.
- 2008. Disability compensation and responsibility. Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, NHH, Bergen. 20 pages.
- 2007. Utdanning i akademisk redelighet - Tiltak for etikk i utdanningene ved Universitetet i Bergen.
- 2004. Cost-effectiveness of Medical Interventions to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease in a sub-Saharan African Country - the case of Tanzania. Program for Helseøkonomi i Bergen, Bergen. 46 pages.
- 2003. Primær behandling av ovarialcancer. SMM-rapport. 5/2003. Senter for medisinsk metodevurdering, SINTEF Unimed.
- 2003. Legens doble rolle som advokat og portvakt i Fastlegeordningen Evaluering av fastlegeordningen. Rokkansenteret Working Papers. 19. Rokkansenteret, Bergen. 23 pages.
Book sections
- 2013. Introduction: what’s wrong with health inequalities? Introduction, pages 1-10. In:
- 2013. Inequalities in health: concepts, measures, and ethics. Oxford University Press. 368 pages. ISBN: 978-0-19-993139-2.
- 2013. Atkinson’s index applied to health: can measures of economic inequality help us understand trade-offs in health care priority setting? Chapter 14, pages 214-230. In:
- 2013. Inequalities in health: concepts, measures, and ethics. Oxford University Press. 368 pages. ISBN: 978-0-19-993139-2.
- 2013. La litigación en reclamo de medicamentos. ¿De qué modo es posible evaluar el impacto en los resultados de salud?,. 12, pages 361-391. In:
- 2013. La lucha por los derechos de la salud: ¿puede la justicia ser una herramienta de cambio? Siglo XXI Editores. 488 pages. ISBN: 978-987-629-260-3.
- 2011. Litigating for medicines: how can we assess impact on health outcomes. Chapter 13, pages 304-330. In:
- 2011. Litigating Health Rights: Can Courts Bring More Justice to Health (Harvard Law School Human Rigthts Programme Series). Harvard University Press. 435 pages. ISBN: 978-0-979-63955-5.
- 2011. Global helse: ulikhet, urettferdighet og sosiale helsedeterminanter. Kapittel 5, pages 77-90. In:
- 2011. Sosialmedisin. Gyldendal Norsk Forlag A/S. 293 pages. ISBN: 9788205399150.
- 2005. The role of formal outcome evaluations in health policy making: a normative perspective. Chapter, pages 139-49. In:
- 2005. Evidence-Based Practice in Medicine & Health Care. Springer. 200 pages. ISBN: 3540222391.
- 2001. Hvordan bør vi prioritere i helsetjenesten? In:
- 2001. Helse, økonomi og politikk: Utfordringer for det norske helsevesenet. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISBN: 82-02-21247-2.
- 2000. Increasing demand for accountability. Is there a professional response? In:
- 2000. The global challenge of health care rationing.
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