Browsing Bergen Open Research Archive by Journals "Health Economics"
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Balancing health and financial protection in health benefit package design
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Policymakers face difficult choices over which health interventions to publicly finance. We developed an approach to health benefits package design that accommodates explicit tradeoffs between improvements in health and ... -
Cycle-network expansion plan in Oslo: Modeling costeffectiveness analysis and health equity impact
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Physical inactivity is the leading cause of non-communicable diseases, and further research on the cost-effectiveness of interventions that target inactivity is warranted. Socioeconomic status is vital in this process. We ... -
Health effects of reduced workload for older employees
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)To keep elder employees in the labour force, introducing age-dependent job conditions can be a policy measure. However, we know little about the effect of such initiatives. We investigate the effects of a particular programme ... -
Why physicians are lousy gatekeepers: Sicklisting decisions when patients have private information on symptoms
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)In social insurance systems that grant workers paid sick leave, physicians act as gatekeepers, supposedly granting sickness certificates to the sick and not to shirkers. Previous research has emphasized the physician's ...