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Jan Abel Olsen is affiliated with the University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway in Norway. Their research primarily spans the fields of Health Professions, Social Sciences, and Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with a particular focus on subfields including General Health Professions, Economics and Econometrics, Health, Clinical Psychology, and Sociology and Political Science.

Their work concentrates on several key topics such as Health disparities and outcomes, Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, and Quality of Life, Global Health Care Issues, Employment and Welfare Studies, Healthcare Policy and Management, Workplace Health and Well-being, and Hip and Femur Fractures.

Jan Abel Olsen has contributed to publication venues with multiple articles, notably:

  • BMC Public Health
  • Social Science & Medicine
  • Quality of Life Research
  • Value in Health
  • PLoS ONE

The following papers authored or co-authored by Olsen illustrate their focus areas and have been referenced by other researchers:

  • Health and wellbeing in Norway: Population norms and the social gradient, 2020, Social Science & Medicine
  • Combining education and income into a socioeconomic position score for use in studies of health inequalities, 2022, BMC Public Health
  • Filling the psycho-social gap in the EQ-5D: the empirical support for four bolt-on dimensions, 2020, Quality of Life Research
  • Advancing Palliative Care in Patients With CKD: From Ideas to Practice, 2020, American Journal of Kidney Diseases
  • Explaining subjective social status in two countries: The relative importance of education, occupation, income and childhood circumstances, 2021, SSM - Population Health

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Gang Chen
  • Admassu N. Lamu
  • Birgit Abelsen
  • Marie Hella Lindberg
  • Nils Gutacker

Best Publications

  • Theory versus practice: a review of ‘willingness‐to‐pay’ in health and health care

    Jan Abel Olsen;Richard D. Smith

  • Cost-Effectiveness of Telemedicine in Remote Orthopedic Consultations: Randomized Controlled Trial.

    Astrid Buvik;Trine S Bergmo;Einar Bugge;Arvid Smaabrekke

  • The role of adaptation to disability and disease in health state valuation: a preliminary normative analysis

    Paul Menzel;Paul Dolan;Jeff R J Richardson;Jan A Olsen

  • Health-related quality of life assessment by the EuroQol-5D can provide cost-utility data in the field of low-back surgery.

    Tore K. Solberg;Jan Abel Olsen;Tor Ingebrigtsen;Dag Hofoss

  • HELICOPTERS, HEARTS AND HIPS: USING WILLINGNESS TO PAY TO SET PRIORITIES FOR PUBLIC SECTOR HEALTH CARE PROGRAMMES

    Jan Abel Olsen;Cam Donaldson

  • Estimating QALY Gains in Applied Studies: A Review of Cost-Utility Analyses Published in 2010

    Torbjørn Wisløff;Torbjørn Wisløff;Gunhild Hagen;Vida Hamidi;Espen Movik

  • An inquiry into the different perspectives that can be used when eliciting preferences in health.

    Paul Dolan;Paul Dolan;Jan Abel Olsen;Jan Abel Olsen;Paul Menzel;Jeffrey Ralph James Richardson

  • Theories of justice and their implications for priority setting in health care

    Jan Abel Olsen

  • Risk of malnutrition and health-related quality of life in community-living elderly men and women: The Tromsø study

    Jan-Magnus Kvamme;Jan Abel Olsen;Jon Florholmen;Jon Florholmen;Bjarne Koster Jacobsen

  • Clarifying Associations between Childhood Adversity, Social Support, Behavioral Factors, and Mental Health, Health, and Well-Being in Adulthood: A Population-Based Study

    Mashhood Ahmed Sheikh;Birgit Abelsen;Jan Abel Olsen

  • On what basis should health be discounted

    Jan Abel Olsen

  • Production gains from health care: what should be included in cost-effectiveness analyses?

    Jan Abel Olsen;Jeff Richardson

  • Combining education and income into a socioeconomic position score for use in studies of health inequalities

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  • Societal views on orphan drugs: cross sectional survey of Norwegians aged 40 to 67

    Arna S Desser;Dorte Gyrd-Hansen;Jan Abel Olsen;Sverre Grepperud

  • The moral relevance of personal characteristics in setting health care priorities

    Jan Abel Olsen;Jeff R J Richardson;Paul Dolan;Paul Dolan;Paul Menzel

  • Time preferences for health gains: an empirical investigation.

    Jan Abel Olsen

  • The relative importance of health, income and social relations for subjective well-being: An integrative analysis.

    Admassu Nadew Lamu;Jan Abel Olsen

  • The impact of pecuniary and non-pecuniary incentives for attracting young doctors to rural general practice

    Jon Helgheim Holte;Trine Kjaer;Birgit Abelsen;Jan Abel Olsen

  • Persons vs years: two ways of eliciting implicit weights.

    Jan Abel Olsen

  • The insensitivity of `willingness-to-pay' to the size of the good: New evidence for health care

    Jan Abel Olsen;Jan Abel Olsen;Cam Donaldson;João Pereira

  • Aiding priority setting in health care: is there a role for the contingent valuation method?

    Jan Abel Olsen

  • A monoclonal antibody against HER-2 (trastuzumab) for metastatic breast cancer: a model-based cost-effectiveness analysis

    J. Norum;T. Risberg;J. A. Olsen;J. A. Olsen

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeff Richardson
Jeff Richardson Monash University
Richard Smith
Richard Smith University of Exeter
Dorte Gyrd-Hansen
Dorte Gyrd-Hansen University of Southern Denmark
Oddgeir Friborg
Oddgeir Friborg University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Jan H. Rosenvinge
Jan H. Rosenvinge University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Ole Frithjof Norheim
Ole Frithjof Norheim University of Bergen
Job van Exel
Job van Exel Erasmus University Rotterdam
László Gulácsi
László Gulácsi Óbuda University

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