• Abort og fosterreduksjon: En etisk sammenligning 

      Dahl, Silje Langseth; Vaksdal, Rebekka Hylland; Barra, Mathias; Gamlund, Espen; Solberg, Carl Tollef (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      De siste årene har fosterreduksjon i økende grad vært gjenstand for debatt i Norge, og intensiteten nådde et foreløpig maksimum da Lovavdelingen leverte tolknings-uttalelsen § 2 - Tolkning av abortloven i 2016 som svar på ...
    • Abortion and multifetal pregnancy reduction: An ethical comparison 

      Langseth Dahl, Silje; Vaksdal, Rebekka Hylland; Barra, Mathias; Gamlund, Espen; Solberg, Carl Tollef (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      In recent years, multifetal pregnancy reduction (MFPR) has increasingly been a subject of debate in Norway. The intensity of this debate reached a tentative maximum when the Legislation Department delivered their interpretative ...
    • Attitudes towards priority setting in the Norwegian health care system: a general population survey 

      Solberg, Carl Tollef; Tranvåg, Eirik Joakim; Magelssen, Morten (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-04-05)
      Background: In an ideal world, everyone would receive medical resources in accordance with their needs. In reality, resources are often scarce and have an alternative use. Thus, we are forced to prioritize. Although Norway ...
    • Bør vi diskontere fremtidige helsegevinster? Pro et contra 

      Solberg, Carl Tollef; Barra, Mathias; Robberstad, Bjarne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Målet med denne artikkelen er å undersøke de viktigste argumentene for og imot diskontering av fremtidige helsegevinster. Et mer generelt spørsmål dreier seg om hvorvidt vi bør diskontere fremtidig velferd (eng. well-being). ...
    • Can Geographically Targeted Vaccinations Be Ethically Justified? The Case of Norway During the COVID-19 Pandemic 

      Amdam, Håkon; Norheim, Ole Frithjof; Solberg, Carl Tollef; Littmann, Jasper (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      This article discusses the fairness of geographically targeted vaccinations (GTVs). During the initial period of local and global vaccine scarcity, health authorities had to enact priority-setting strategies for mass ...
    • The Devils in the DALY: Prevailing Evaluative Assumptions 

      Solberg, Carl Tollef; Sørheim, Preben; Muller, Karl Erik; Gamlund, Espen; Norheim, Ole Frithjof; Barra, Mathias (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      In recent years, it has become commonplace among the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study authors to regard the disability-adjusted life year (DALY) primarily as a descriptive health metric. During the first phase of the ...
    • The disvalue of death in the global burden of disease 

      Solberg, Carl Tollef; Norheim, Ole Frithjof; Barra, Mathias (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)
      In the Global Burden of Disease study, disease burden is measured as disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). The paramount assumption of the DALY is that it makes sense to aggregate years lived with disability (YLDs) and ...
    • Døden som et onde: En oversiktsartikkel 

      Solberg, Carl Tollef (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-03-05)
      Siden 1970 har det utviklet seg en særegen og sofistikert diskurs om døden innen analytisk filosofi. Denne debatten oppsto som følge av en direkte imøtekommelse av Epikurs sekulære filosofi om døden. Epikur argumenterte ...
    • Er covid-19 alvorlig? Det norske alvorlighetskriteriet for helseprioriteringer i møte med en pandemi 

      Horn, Sindre August; Jølstad, Borgar; Barra, Mathias; Solberg, Carl Tollef (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Koronapandemien har synliggjort nødvendigheten av prioriteringer i helsetjenesten vår. Helseprioriteringer i Norge skal gjøres etter de tre kriteriene nytte, ressurs og alvorlighetsgrad. Nytte- og ressurskriteriene utgjør ...
    • Mandatory childhood vaccination: Should Norway follow? 

      Gamlund, Espen; Muller, Karl Erik; Paquet, Kathrine Knarvik; Solberg, Carl Tollef (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Systematic public vaccination constitutes a tremendous health success, perhaps the greatest achievement of biomedicine so far. There is, however, room for improvement. Each year, 1.5 million deaths could be avoided with ...
    • Public health priority setting: A case for priority to the worse off in well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic 

      Horn, Sindre August; Barra, Mathias; Norheim, Ole Frithjof; Solberg, Carl Tollef (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      In Norway, priority for health interventions is assigned on the basis of three official criteria: health benefit, resources, and severity. Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have mainly happened through intersectoral public ...
    • Severity as a priority setting criterion: Setting a challenging research agenda 

      Barra, Mathias; Broqvist, Mari; Gustavsson, Erik; Henriksson, Martin; Juth, Niklas; Sandman, Lars; Solberg, Carl Tollef (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-05-22)
      Priority setting in health care is ubiquitous and health authorities are increasingly recognising the need for priority setting guidelines to ensure efficient, fair, and equitable resource allocation. While cost-effectiveness ...