Journal Articles

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

• Admassu N. LamuGang, Chen, G, Gamst-Klaussen T, Olsen JA: 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. Quality of Life Research, 2018

• Olsen JA, Lamu A, Cairns J: In search of a common currency: A comparison of seven EQ-5D-5L value sets. Health Economics, 2017 

• Sheikh MA, Abelsen B, Olsen JA: Education and health & well-being: Direct and indirect effects with multiple mediators and interactions with multiple imputed data in Stata. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 2017  

• Lamu A, Olsen JA: 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, Health Economics, 2017

•  Lamu, A Olsen JA: The relative importance of health, income and social relations for subjective well-being: An integrative analysis, Social Science & Medicine, March 2016, 176–185

•  Lamu, A, Gamst-Klaussen T, Olsen JA: Preference Weighting of Health State Values: What Difference Does it Make, and Why? Value in Health, 2016

•  Sheikh MA, Abelsen B, Olsen JA: Differential recall bias, intermediate confounding, and mediation analysis in life course epidemiology: An analytic framework with empirical example. Frontiers in Psych, 2016

•  Sheikh MA, Abelsen B, Olsen JA: Clarifying associations between childhood adversity, social support, behavioural factors, and mental health, health, and well-being in adulthood: A population-based study. Frontiers in Psych, 2016

•  Gamst-Klaussen T, Chen, G, Lamu AN, Olsen JA:  Health state utility instruments compared: inquiring into nonlinearity across EQ-5D-5L, SF-6D, HUI-3 and 15D. Quality of Life Research, 2016

• Holte JH, Sivey P, Abelsen B, Olsen JA: Modelling nonlinearities and reference-dependence in general practitioners’ income preferences. Health Economics 2015

• Holte JH, Kjaer T, Abelsen B, Olsen JA: The impact of pecuniary and non-pecuniary incentives for attracting young doctors to rural general practice, Social Science & Medicine 2015
  
  
• Holte JH, Abelsen B, Halvorsen P, Olsen JA: General practitioners’ altered preferences for private practice vs. salaried positions: a consequence of proposed policy regulations? BMC Health Services Research 2015
  
  
• Abelsen B, Olsen JA: Young doctors’ preferences for payment systems: the influence of gender and personality traits. Human Resources for Health, 2015
  
  
• Norum J, Traasdahl ER, Totth A, Nieder C, Olsen JA: Health Economics and Radium-223 (Xofigo®) in the Treatment of Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer (mCRPC): A Case History and a Systematic Review of the Literature. Global Journal of Health Science, 2015
  
  
• Friborg  O, Emaus N, Rosenvinge JH, Bilden U, Olsen JA, Pettersen G: Violence affects physical and mental health differently: the general population based Tromsø Study. PLOS ONE, 2015
  
  
• Sheikh MA, Abelsen B, Olsen JA: Role of respondents' education as a mediator and moderator in the association between childhood socio-economic status and later health and wellbeing. BMC Public Health
  
  
• Wisløff T, Hagen G, Hamidi V, Movik E, Klemp M, Olsen JA:  Estimating QALY gains in applied studies: A review of cost-effectiveness analyses published in 2010 that expressed health gains in terms of quality-adjusted-life-years. PharmacoEconomics 2013
  
  
• Olsen JA: Priority Preferences: "End of Life" Does Not Matter, But Total Life Does. Value in Health 2013; 16 (6) 1063-1066
  
  
• Desser AS, Olsen JA, Grepperud S: Eliciting Preferences for Prioritizing Treatment of Rare Diseases: the Role of Opportunity Costs and Framing Effects. PharmacoEconomics 2013; 31: 1051-1061
  
  
• Olsen JA: Hva menes med «sykdommens alvorlighetsgrad»? Tidsskr Nor Legeforen 2013; 133:64 – 7
  
  
• Olsen JA, Richardson J (2013): Preferences for the normative basis of health care priority setting: Some evidence from two countries, Health Economics 
  
  
• Olsen F,  Abelsen B,  Olsen JA (2012):  Improving response rate and quality of survey data with a scratch lottery ticket incentive, BMC Medical Research Methodology 
  
  
• Olsen JA, Røgeberg OJ, Stavem K (2012): What explains willingness-to-pay for smoking-cessation treatments: Addiction level, quit rate effectiveness or the opening bid?, Applied Health Economics and Health Policy (in press)
  
  
• Abelsen B, Olsen JA (2012): Does an activity based remuneration system attract young doctors to general practice?, BMC Health Services Research
  
  
• Kvamme JM, Olsen JA, Florholmen J, Jacobsen BK (2011): Risk of malnutrition and Health Related Quality of Life in community living elderly men and women. The Tromsø Study, Quality of Life Research.
  
  
• Desser AS, Gyrd-Hansen D, Olsen JA, Grepperud S, Kristiansen IS (2010): Societal views on orphan drugs: cross-sectional survey of Norwegians aged 40 to 67, British Medical Journal 
  
  
• Kvamme MK, Gyrd-Hansen D, Olsen JA, Kristiansen IS (2010): Increasing marginal utility of small increases in life-expectancy? Results from a population survey, Journal of Health Economics
  
  
• Fuglenes D, Øian P, Gyrd-Hansen D, Olsen JA, Kristiansen IS (2010): Norwegian obstetricians’ opinions about cesarean delivery on maternal request: Should women pay themselves? Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
  
  
• Robberstad B, Olsen JA (2010): The health related quality of life of people living with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa - a literature review and focus group study, Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation
  
  
• Stavem K, Rogeberg OJ, Olsen JA, Boe J (2008): Properties of the Cigarette Dependence Scale and the Fagerstrom Test of Nicotine Dependence in a representative sample of smokers in Norway, Addiction.
  
  
• Abelsen B, Olsen JA (2008): Task division between dentist and dental hygienists in Norway, Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology.
  
  
• Killie MK, Kjeldsen-Kragh J, Husebekk A, Skogen B, Olsen JA, Kristiansen IS (2007): Cost-effectiveness of antenatal screening for neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia, BJOG.
  
  
• Norum J, Olsen JA, Wist E, Lønning PE (2007): Trastuzumab in adjuvant breast cancer therapy. A model based cost-effectiveness analysis, Acta Oncologica
  
  
• Norum J, Olsen JA (2006): Trastuzumab in adjuvant breast cancer therapy (2006): A model based cost-effectiveness analysis, Journal of Clinical Oncology
  
  
• Richardson J, Olsen JA (2005): In Defence of Societal Sovereignty: A Comment on Nyman ‘The Inclusion of Survivor Consumption in CUA’, Health Economics
  
  
• Olsen JA, Donaldson C, Shackley P (2005): Implicit vs explicit ranking: On inferring ordinal preferences for health care programmes based on differences in willingness-to-pay, Journal of Health Economics
  
  
• Norum J, Risberg T, Olsen JA (2005): A monoclonal antibody against HER-2 (trastuzumab) for metastatic breast cancer: a model-based cost-effectiveness analysis, Annals of Oncology
  
  
• Solberg TK, Olsen JA, Ingebrigtsen T, Hofoss D, Nygaard OP (2005): Health-related quality of life assessment by the EuroQol-5D can provide cost-utility data in the field of low-back surgery, European Spine Journal
  
  
• Olsen JA, Richardson J, Dolan P, Menzel P (2005): Response to "on the relevance of personal characteristics in setting health care priorities", Social Science and Medicine
  
  
• Olsen JA, Kidholm K, Donaldson C, Shackley P (2004): Willingness to pay for public health care: a comparison of two approaches, Health Policy
  
  
• Olsen JA (2004): Exploring social welfare functions and violation of monotonicity: an example from inequalities in health—a comment, Journal of Health Economics
  
  
• Olsen JA, Donaldson C, Pereira J (2004): The insensitivity of ‘willingness-to-pay’ to the size of the good: new evidence for health care, Journal of Economic Psychology
  
  
• Olsen JA, Richardson J, Dolan P, Menzel P (2003): The moral relevance of personal characteristics in setting health care priorities, Social Science and Medicine
  
  
• Olsen JA, Eidem JI (2003): An inquiry into the size of health charities: the case of Norwegian patient organisations, Journal of Socio-Economics
  
  
• Dolan P, Olsen JA, Richardson J, Menzel P (2003): An inquiry into the perspectives that can be used when eliciting preferences in health, Health Economics
  
  
• Menzel P, Dolan P, Richardson J, Olsen JA (2002): The Role of Adaptation to Disability and Disease in Health State Valuation: A Preliminary Normative Analysis, Social Science and Medicine
  
  
• Stavem K, Kristiansen IS, Olsen JA (2002): Association of time preference for health with age and disease severity, The European Journal of Health Economics
  
  
• Dolan P, Olsen JA (2001): Equity in health: the importance of different health streams, Journal of Health Economics
  
  
• Olsen JA, Smith R (2001): Theory versus practice: A review of ‘willingness-to-pay’ in health and health care, Health Economics
  
  
• Olsen JA (2000): A note on eliciting distributive preferences for health, Journal of Health Economics
  
  
• Olsen JA, Hofoss D (2000): Hvor mye penger vil vi bruke på helsevesenet? (In Norwegian: How much are we willing to spend on the health service), Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening
  
  
• Olsen JA, Richardson J (1999): Production gains from health care: What should be included in cost-effectiveness analyses? Social Science and Medicine
  
  
• Olsen JA, Donaldson C (1998): Helicopters, hearts and hips: Using willingness to pay to set priorities for public sector health care programmes, Social Science and Medicine
  
  
• Donaldson C, Jones AM, Mapp TJ, Olsen JA (1998): Limited dependent variables in willingness to pay studies: applications in health care, Applied Economics
  
  
• Olsen JA (1997): Aiding priority setting in health care: Is there a role for the Contingent Valuation method? Health Economics
  
  
• Olsen JA (1997): Theories of justice and their implications for priority setting in health care, Journal of Health Economics
  
  
• Norum J, Olsen, JA, Wist EA (1997): Lumpectomy or mastectomy? Is breast conserving surgery too expencive?, Breast Cancer Research and Treatment
  
  
• Norum J, Olsen, JA (1997): A cost-effectiveness approach to the Norwegian follow-up programme in colorectal cancer, Annals of Oncology
  
  
• Norum J, Vonen B, Olsen JA, Revhaug A (1997): Adjuvant chemotherapy (5-fluorouracil and levamisole) in Dukes' B and C colorectal carcinoma. A cost-effectiveness analysis. Annals of Oncology
  
  
• Norum J, Angelsen V, Wist E, Olsen JA (1996): Treatment costs in Hodgkin's disease: A cost-utility analysis, European Journal of Cancer
  
  
• Olsen JA (1994): Production gains: Should they count in health care evaluations? Scottish Journal of Political Economy
  
  
• Olsen JA (1994): Persons vs years: Two ways of eliciting implicit weights, Health Economics
  
  
• Clark D, Olsen JA (1994): Agency in health care with an endogenous budget constraint, Journal of Health Economics
  
  
• Olsen JA (1993): But health can still be a necessity ..., Journal of Health Economics
  
  
• Olsen JA (1993): On what basis should health be discounted? Journal of Health Economics
  
  
• Olsen JA (1993): Time Preferences for Health Gains: An Empirical Investigation, Health Economics