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Ulf-G. Gerdtham

Ulf-G. Gerdtham

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Economics and Finance
Sweden
2026

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
64
Citations
17656
World Ranking
646
National Ranking
5

Ulf-G. Gerdtham publication distribution in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Economics and Finance in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ulf-G. Gerdtham sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 234 publications — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 521 publications or more.

Ulf-G. Gerdtham D-index placement in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Economics and Finance scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ulf-G. Gerdtham sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 101+

This scientist: 64 D-Index — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 101 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Ulf-G. Gerdtham is affiliated with Lund University in Sweden and works primarily within the fields of Medicine and Social Sciences. Their research spans 28 publications in Medicine and 23 in Social Sciences, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach that integrates economic and health-related perspectives.

The scientist's subfields of study include Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Health, Surgery, and Psychiatry and Mental Health. These areas indicate a strong focus on health economics and the broader implications of health policies and clinical practices.

The main topics of Ulf-G. Gerdtham's research encompass:

  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Healthcare Policy and Management
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Family and Disability Support Research
  • Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders

Ulf-G. Gerdtham has contributed to a range of scientific publications with recent notable papers including:

  • "Experience-Based Swedish TTO and VAS Value Sets for EQ-5D-5L Health States" (2020), published in PharmacoEconomics
  • "Inequality and heterogeneity in health-related quality of life: findings based on a large sample of cross-sectional EQ-5D-5L data from the Swedish general population" (2021), published in Quality of Life Research
  • "Healthcare costs of dementia diseases before, during and after diagnosis: Longitudinal analysis of 17 years of Swedish register data" (2022), published in Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • "Healthcare costs after kidney transplantation compared to dialysis based on propensity score methods and real world longitudinal register data from Sweden" (2023), published in Scientific Reports
  • "Education, immigration and rising mental health inequality in Sweden" (2020), published in Social Science & Medicine

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Ulf-G. Gerdtham include:

  • Johan Jarl
  • Sanjib Saha
  • Gawain Heckley
  • Anna Linder
  • Ann I. Alriksson-Schmidt

Ulf-G. Gerdtham's work is often published in key venues such as Health Economics, Social Science & Medicine, SSRN Electronic Journal, HRB Open Research, and Alzheimer's & Dementia. The most frequent publication venue is Health Economics with six publications.

Best Publications

  • Economic Burden of Obesity: A Systematic Literature Review

    Maximilian Tremmel;Ulf G. Gerdtham;Peter M. Nilsson;Sanjib Saha

  • Income-related inequalities in health: some international comparisons.

    E van Doorslaer;A Wagstaff;H Bleichrodt;S Calonge

  • Social capital and health : does egalitarianism matter? A literature review

    M Kamrul Islam;Juan Merlo;Ichiro Kawachi;Martin Lindström

  • Equity in the delivery of health care in Europe and the US

    Eddy Van Doorslaer;Adam Wagstaff;Hattem Van Der Burg;Terkel Christiansen

  • An econometric analysis of health care expenditure: a cross-section study of the OECD countries.

    Ulf G. Gerdtham;Jes Søgaard;Fredrik Andersson;Bengt Jönsson

  • The relationship between happiness, health, and socio-economic factors : Results based on Swedish microdata

    Ulf G. Gerdtham;Magnus Johannesson

  • International comparisons of health expenditure: Theory, data and econometric analysis

    Ulf-G Gerdtham;Bengt Jonsson

  • Equity in the finance of health care: some further international comparisons

    Adam Wagstaff;Eddy Van Doorslaer;Hattem Van Der Burg;Samuel Calonge

  • Swedish experience-based value sets for EQ-5D health states

    Kristina Burström;Kristina Burström;Sun Sun;Sun Sun;Ulf-G Gerdtham;Martin Henriksson

  • On stationarity and cointegration of international health expenditure and GDP.

    Ulf G. Gerdtham;Mickael Löthgren

  • Does inequality in self-assessed health predict inequality in survival by income? Evidence from Swedish data.

    Eddy van Doorslaer;Ulf G Gerdtham;Ulf G Gerdtham

  • A note on the effect of unemployment on mortality.

    Ulf-G Gerdtham;Magnus Johannesson

  • The redistributive effect of health care finance in twelve OECD countries.

    Eddy Van Doorslaer;Adam Wagstaff;Hattem Van Der Burg;Terkel Christiansen

  • Equity in Health Care Utilization: Further Tests Based on Hurdle Models and Swedish Micro Data

    Ulf G. Gerdtham

  • Absolute Income, Relative Income, Income Inequality, and Mortality

    Ulf-G. Gerdtham;Magnus Johannesson

  • Forgetting to remember or remembering to forget: A study of the recall period length in health care survey questions.

    Gustav Kjellsson;Philip Clarke;Ulf-G Gerdtham

  • The determinants of health expenditure in the OECD countries: a pooled data analysis.

    Ulf-G Gerdtham;Bengt Jönsson;Maitland MacFarlan;Howard Oxley

  • Optimal recall length in survey design.

    Philip M Clarke;Denzil G Fiebig;Ulf-G Gerdtham;Ulf-G Gerdtham

  • On correcting the concentration index for binary variables.

    Gustav Kjellsson;Ulf-G. Gerdtham;Ulf-G. Gerdtham

  • Business cycles and mortality: results from Swedish microdata.

    Ulf-G. Gerdtham;Magnus Johannesson

  • Chapter 1 International comparisons of health expenditure : Theory, data and econometric analysis

    Ulf G. Gerdtham;Bengt Jönsson

  • Health financing for the poor produces promising short-term effects on utilization and out-of-pocket expenditure: evidence from Vietnam

    Henrik Axelson;Henrik Axelson;Sarah Bales;Pham Duc Minh;Björn Ekman

Frequent Co-Authors

Magnus Johannesson
Magnus Johannesson Stockholm School of Economics
Juan Merlo
Juan Merlo Lund University
Philip Clarke
Philip Clarke University of Oxford
Martin Lindström
Martin Lindström Lund University
Peter M. Nilsson
Peter M. Nilsson Lund University
Carol Propper
Carol Propper Imperial College London
Eddy van Doorslaer
Eddy van Doorslaer Erasmus University Rotterdam
Adam Wagstaff
Adam Wagstaff World Bank
Kristina Sundquist
Kristina Sundquist Lund University
Brian Nolan
Brian Nolan University of Oxford

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