Jan Abel Olsen
Professor in health economics
Job description
Jan Abel Olsen is a Professor of Health Economics in the Department of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø, Norway. He is an adjunct professor in the Centre for Health Economics, Monash University, Australia and part time researcher at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.
Jan Abel has been visiting professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the University of York, and Bocconi University, Italy. He has published extensively in the leading health economics journals. His eclectic research interests include: valuation of health outcomes, equality and fairness, determinants of health and wellbeing, healthcare financing and incentives. Jan Abel enjoys teaching and has written three books in health economics.
Admassu Nadew Lamu,
Gang Chen,
Jan Abel Olsen
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Amplified disparities: The association between spousal education and own health
Social Science and Medicine 2023 DOI
Nils Gutacker,
Jonas Minet Kinge,
Jan Abel Olsen
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Inequality in quality-adjusted life expectancy by educational attainment in Norway: an observational study
Marie Hella Lindberg,
Gang Chen,
Jan Abel Olsen,
Birgit Abelsen
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Combining education and income into a socioeconomic position score for use in studies of health inequalities
Gang Chen,
Jan Abel Olsen
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How is your life? understanding the relative importance of life domains amongst older adults, and their associations with self-perceived COVID-19 impacts
Espen Berthung,
Nils Gutacker,
Birgit Abelsen,
Jan Abel Olsen
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Inequality of opportunity in a land of equal opportunities: The impact of parents' health and wealth on their offspring's quality of life in Norway
Gang Chen,
Jan Abel Olsen
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Extending the EQ-5D: the case for a complementary set of 4 psycho-social dimensions
Espen Berthung,
Nils Gutacker,
Oddgeir Friborg,
Birgit Abelsen,
Jan Abel Olsen
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Who keeps on working? The importance of resilience for labour market participation
Marie Hella Lindberg,
Gang Chen,
Jan Abel Olsen,
Birgit Abelsen
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Explaining subjective social status in two countries: The relative importance of education, occupation, income and childhood circumstances
Gang Chen,
Jan Abel Olsen
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Filling the psycho-social gap in the EQ-5D: the empirical support for four bolt-on dimensions
Jan Abel Olsen,
Marie Hella Lindberg,
Admassu Nadew Lamu
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Health and wellbeing in Norway: Population norms and the social gradient
Jan Håkon Rudolfsen,
Tore Solberg,
Tor Ingebrigtsen,
Jan Abel Olsen
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Associations between utilization rates and patients’ health: a study of spine surgery and patient-reported outcomes (EQ-5D and ODI)
Jan Abel Olsen,
RoseAnne Misajon
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A conceptual map of health-related quality of life dimensions: key lessons for a new instrument
Astrid Synnøve Buvik,
Trine Strand Bergmo,
Einar Bugge,
Arvid Småbrekke,
Tom Wilsgaard,
Jan Abel Olsen
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Cost-Effectiveness of Telemedicine in Remote Orthopedic Consultations: Randomized Controlled Trial
Jan Abel Olsen,
Admassu Nadew Lamu,
John Cairns
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In search of a common currency: A comparison of seven
EQ‐5D‐5L value sets
Admassu Nadew Lamu,
Jan Abel Olsen
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Yes, health is important, but as much for its importance via
social life: The direct and indirect effects of health on subjective well‐being in chronically ill individuals
Admassu Nadew Lamu,
Jan Abel Olsen
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Testing alternative regression models to predict utilities: mapping the QLQ-C30 onto the EQ-5D-5L and the SF-6D
Thor Gamst-Klaussen,
Claire Gudex,
Jan Abel Olsen
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Exploring the causal and effect nature of EQ-5D dimensions: an application of confirmatory tetrad analysis and confirmatory factor analysis
Admassu Nadew Lamu,
Gang Chen,
Thor Gamst-Klaussen,
Jan Abel Olsen
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Do country-specific preference-weights matter in the choice of mapping algorithms? The case of mapping the Diabetes-39 onto eight country-specific EQ-5D-5L value sets
Thor Gamst-Klaussen,
Admassu Nadew Lamu,
Gang Chen,
Jan Abel Olsen
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Assessment of outcome measures for cost–utility
analysis in depression: mapping depression scales
onto the EQ-5D-5L
Admassu Nadew Lamu,
Thor Gamst-Klaussen,
Jan Abel Olsen
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Preference Weighting of Health State Values: What Difference Does It Make, and Why?
Mashhood Ahmed Sheikh,
Birgit Abelsen,
Jan Abel Olsen
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Education and health and well-being: direct and indirect effects with multiple mediators and interactions with multiple imputed data in Stata
Jan Abel Olsen
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Determinants of (inequalities in) health: an overview
Oxford University Press 2017 DOI
Jan Abel Olsen
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Costs and the cost-effectiveness treshold
Oxford University Press 2017 DOI
Jan Abel Olsen
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Unwarranted variations in healthcare utilization
Oxford University Press 2017 DOI
Jan Abel Olsen
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Exogenous determinants of health
Oxford University Press 2017 DOI
Jan Abel Olsen
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The healthcare delivery system: an overview
Oxford University Press 2017 DOI
Jan Abel Olsen
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The social environment and health
Oxford University Press 2017 DOI
Jan Abel Olsen
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Funding sources: an overview
Oxford University Press 2017 DOI
Jan Abel Olsen
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Beyond cost-effectiveness: priority setting
Oxford University Press 2017 DOI
Jan Abel Olsen,
EB Lerner,
D Persse,
F Sterz,
M Jr Lozano,
MA Brouwer
et al.:
Chest compression duration influences outcome between integrated load-distributing band and manual CPR during cardiac arrest
Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica 2016 DOI
Helen Mason,
Job Van Exel,
Rachel Baker,
Werner Brouwer,
Cam Donaldson,
Jan Abel Olsen
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From representing views to representativeness of views: Illustrating a new (Q2S) approach in the context of health care priority setting in nine European countries
Social Science and Medicine 2016 DOI
Admassu Nadew Lamu,
Jan Abel Olsen
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The relative importance of health, income and social relations for subjective well-being: An integrative analysis
Jon Helgheim Holte,
Peter Sivey,
Birgit Abelsen,
Jan Abel Olsen
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Modelling Nonlinearities and Reference Dependence in General Practitioners' Income Preferences
Health Economics 2016 DOI
Mashhood Ahmed Sheikh,
Birgit Abelsen,
Jan Abel Olsen
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Clarifying Associations between Childhood Adversity, Social Support, Behavioral Factors, and Mental Health, Health, and Well-Being in Adulthood: A Population-Based Study
Mashhood Sheikh Ahmed,
Birgit Abelsen,
Jan Abel Olsen
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Differential Recall Bias, Intermediate Confounding, and Mediation Analysis in Life Course Epidemiology: An Analytic Framework with Empirical Example
Jon Helgheim Holte,
Trine Kjær,
Birgit Abelsen,
Jan Abel Olsen
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The impact of pecuniary and non-pecuniary incentives for attracting young doctors to rural general practice
Social Science and Medicine 2015 DOI
Jon Helgheim Holte,
Birgit Abelsen,
Peder Andreas Halvorsen,
Jan Abel Olsen
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General practitioners’ altered preferences for private practice vs. salaried positions:
a consequence of proposed policy regulations?
Birgit Abelsen,
Jan Abel Olsen
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Young doctors' preferences for payment systems: The influence of gender and personality traits
Jan Abel Olsen
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Principles in Health Economics and Policy
Oxford University Press 2017
Marie Hella Lindberg,
John Wildman,
Birgit Abelsen,
Jan Abel Olsen
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The lasting impact of circumstances on health and efforts in adulthood
2022
Marie Hella Lindberg,
John Wildman,
Birgit Abelsen,
Jan Abel Olsen
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The lasting impact of circumstances on health and efforts in adulthood
2022
Richard Norman,
Jan Abel Olsen
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Expanding the Scope of Value for Economic Evaluation: The EQ-HWB
Value in Health 2022 DOI
Marie Hella Lindberg,
Gang Chen,
Jan Abel Olsen,
Birgit Abelsen
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A Cross-Country Study of Subjective Social Status: The Relative Importance of Education, Occupation, Income and ‘the Silver Spoon’
2021
Richard Norman,
Jan Abel Olsen
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Competing Views on the English EQ-5D-5L Valuation Set
Value in Health 2020 DOI
Jan Abel Olsen
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Equity considerations in Norway: past, present, future
2019
Marie Hella Lindberg,
Jan Abel Olsen,
Gang Chen,
Birgit Abelsen
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Towards a composite index for socio-economic position when studying health inequalities
2019
Jan Abel Olsen
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Rollemodeller i folkehelsepolitikken
Nordlys 07. June 2019
Oddgeir Friborg,
Nina Emaus,
Jan H Rosenvinge,
Unni Bilden,
Jan Abel Olsen,
Gunn Pettersen
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Correction: Violence affects physical and mental health differently: The general population based Tromsø Study
PLOS ONE 2019 DOI
Marie Hella Lindberg,
Jan Abel Olsen,
Gang Chen,
Birgit Abelsen
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A composite index for socioeconomic position when studying health inequalities
2019
Kjell Arne Røvik,
Jan Abel Olsen
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Når Helse Nord «glemmer» Universitetssykehuset
Nordlys 23. October 2018
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Research interests
- Priority setting: Efficiency and equity in healthcare
- Measuring and valuing health outcomes; Quality-adjusted-life-years (QALYs)
- Inequalities in health
- Regional variation in healthcare utilization
Current Research
- Multi Instrument Comparison of generic quality of life (QoL) instruments (Grant 221452 from The Research Council of Norway, and grant from the Australian NHMRC)
- Tracing causes of inequalities in health and well-being (Grant 273812 from The Research Council of Norway)
Teaching
HEL 3007 Health Economics and Policy
Lecture notes: Health economics 2020
- Lecture 1: Health & Healthcare
- Lecture 2a: Economics & Efficiency production
- Lecture 2b: Economics & Efficiency demand
- Lecture 2c: Economics & Efficiency HealthCare
- Lecture 3: Market Failures
- Lecture 4: Equality & Fairness
- Lecture 5: Determinants Overview
- Lecture 6-8: Determinants of health
- Lecture 9: Funding sources overview
- Lecture 10: Insurance model
- Lecture 11: Prepayment schemes
- Lecture 12: Patient payment
- Lecture 13: Healthcare delivery Overview
- Lecture 14: PrimaryCare
- Lecture 15: Secondary care
- Lecture 16: Unwarranted variations
- Lecture 17: Econ Eval Intro
- Lecture 18: Health Gains
- Lecture 18b: Health Gains in money terms
- Lecture 19: Costs CEA
- Lecture 20: Equity & Priority Setting
Member of research group
CV
Work address
Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, 9037 Tromsø, Norway.
Education
PhD (Dr Philos), thesis: Some methodological issues in economic evaluation in health care, University of Tromsø (1994). MSc in Economic geography (1981), MA in Economics and business administration (1979), Norwegian School of Economics (NHH).
Current positions
- Professor of health economics and health services research (since 1999), in the Department of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø (UiT), Norway
- Adjunct Professor (since 2010), Centre for Health Economics, Monash University, Australia
- Part time researcher (since 2011), Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo
Previous positions
- 1980-81 Research associate, Department of Social Sciences, UiT
- 1982-85 Research associate, Department of Economics, UiT
- 1986-98 Associate professor, Department of Economics, UiT
- 1992-96 Adjunct Professor, Aberdeen University, Scotland
- 2004-06 Adjunct Professor, Bocconi University, Italy
- 2006-11 Adjunct Professor, University of Oslo, Norway
Research Fields
Measuring and valuing health outcomes; Efficiency vs equality trade-offs in health and healthcare; The relationship between health related quality of life (HRQoL) and subjective well-being (SWB); Tracing causes of inequalities in health and well-being; Health care financing
Books
- Olsen JA: Principles in Health Economics and Policy (2nd edition), Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2017
- Olsen JA: Helseøkonomi: Effektivitet og rettferdighet, Cappelen Akademisk Forlag, Oslo, 2006
- Dolan P, Olsen JA: Distributing health care: Economic and ethical issues, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002
- Also translated into Polish: Dystrybucja usług medycznych. Zagadnienia ekonomiczne i etyczne, CeDeWu, 2008
Publication profile
85 peer reviewed journal articles, of which two-thirds appear in level 2 journals (similar to A and A*) in the Norwegian Scientific Index (CRIStin). In most of this published work I have played a leading role, as signaled by being sole author (11), first author (16), or last author (44). My H-index: 40.
Teaching experience
Graduate courses at universities in Australia, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Norway, Russia, Tanzania, South Africa, UK.