The Swedish Institute 
for Health Economics
Box 2127
S-220 02 Lund 
Visiting address: 
Råbygatan 2 
Phone: +46 46 - 32 91 00
info@ihe.se

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.
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