Ulf-G Gerdtham
Professor | Ph.D. | Research Director
Work areas
Demand for Health and Health Care
Health-related Lifestyles and Addicted Behaviors
Equity in Health
International Health Expenditure
Health System and Organization
Pharmaceutical Economics
Selected publications
Jarl J, Gerdtham U-G, Ludbrook A & Pietri D
On Measurement of Avoidable and Unavoidable Cost of Alcohol: An Application of Method for Estimating Costs Due To Prior Consumption
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2010; 7: 2881-2895
Saha S, Gerdtham U-G & Johansson P
Economic Evaluation of Lifestyle Interventions on prevention of diabetes and cardiovascular diseases
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2010; 7: 3150-3195
Allanson P, Gerdtham U G & Petrie D
Longitudinal analysis of income-related health inequality
Journal of Health Economics 2010; 29(1): 78-86
Islam K, Gerdtham U G, Clarke C & Burström K
Does income-related health inequality change as the population ages? Evidence from Swedish panel data
Health Economics 2010; 19(3): 334-349
Jarl J & Gerdtham U G
Wage Penalty of Abstinence and Wage Premium of Drinking - A misclassification bias due to pooling of drinking groups?
Addiction Research and Theory, 2010; 18: 284-297
Ljungvall A & Gerdtham U G
More equal but heavier: a longitudinal analysis of income-related obesity inequality in an adult Swedish cohort
Social Science & Medicine 2010; 70(2): 221-231
Gerdtham UG, Andersson LF, Ericsson A, Borg S, Jansson SA, Rönmark E & Lundbäck B
Factors affecting chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)-related costs: a multivariate analysis of a Swedish COPD cohort
The European Journal for Health Economics 2009 May; 10(2): 217-226
Gerdtham, U-G, Johannesson, M. Do Life-Saving Regulations Save Lives? Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 2002; 24: 231-249.
Gerdtham, U-G, Johannesson, M. Absolute Income, Relative Income, Income Inequality and Mortality? Journal of Human Resources 2004; 39: 228-247.
Gerdtham, U-G, Lundin, D, Saez-Marti, M. The Ageing of Society, Health Services Provision and Taxes. Journal of Population Economics 2005; 18, 519-537.
Gerdtham, U-G, Ruhm, CJ. Deaths Rise in Good Economic Times: Evidence from the OECD. Economics and Human Biology 2006; 4: 298-316.
Clarke, P, Fiebig, DG, Gerdtham, U-G. Optimal recall length in survey design. Journal of Health Economics 2008; 27: 1275-1284.