Publications from the project Ethics of priority setting global health

Global Health

Clinical medical ethics (1-12), Priority setting in Norway (13-24), Priority setting in global health (25-47).

1.             Norheim OF. Soft paternalism and the ethics of shared electronic patient records. BMJ. 2006 Jul 1;333(7557):2-3.

2.             Miljeteig I, Sayeed SA, Jesani A, Johansson KA, Norheim OF. Impact of ethics and economics on end-of-life decisions in an Indian neonatal unit. Pediatrics. 2009 Aug;124(2):e322-8.

3.             Miljeteig I, Johansson KA, Norheim OF. Etiske valg ved medisinsk nytteløs behandling [Ethical choices in medically futile treatment]. Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen. 2008 Oct 9;128(19):2185-9.

4.             Miljeteig I, Markestad T, Norheim OF. Physicians' use of guidelines and attitudes to withholding and withdrawing treatment for extremely premature neonates in Norway. Acta Paediatr. 2007 Jun;96(6):825-9.

5.             Miljeteig I, Norheim OF. My job is to keep him alive, but what about his brother and sister? How Indian doctors experience ethical dilemmas in neonatal medicine. Dev World Bioeth. 2006 Mar;6(1):23-32.

6.             Baeroe K. Priority setting in health care: on the relation between reasonable choices on the micro-level and the macro-level. Theor Med Bioeth. 2008;29(2):87-102.

7.             Baeroe K. Priority-setting in healthcare: a framework for reasonable clinical judgements. J Med Ethics. 2009 Aug;35(8):488-96.

8.             Baeroe K. Patient autonomy, assessment of competence and surrogate decision-making: a call for reasonableness in deciding for others. Bioethics. 2009 Feb;24(2):87-95.

9.             Cappelen AW, Norheim OF, Tungodden B. Genomics and equal opportunity ethics. J Med Ethics. 2008 May;34(5):361-4.

10.           Fattah S, Johnsen KH, Norheim OF. Livsforlengende behandling – analyse av to kasuistikker. Tidsskr Nor Lægeforen. 2007;127:878-81.

11.           Cappelen AW, Norheim OF. Responsibility, fairness and rationing in health care. Health Policy. 2006;76:312-19.

12.           Cappelen AW, Norheim OF. Responsibility in health care: a liberal egalitarian approach. J Med Ethics. 2005 Aug;31(8):476-80.

13.           Johansson KA, Miljeteig I, Norheim OF. Høykostnadsmedisin – mangler vi åpne og legitime prosedyrer for prioritering? [High-cost medicine--do we lack open and legitimate procedures for prioritising?]. Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen. 2009 Jan 1;129(1):17-20.

14.           Norheim OF. Healthcare rationing-are additional criteria needed for assessing evidence based clinical practice guidelines? BMJ. 1999;319(7222):1426-9.

15.           Norheim OF, Gjelsvik B, Kjeldsen SE, Klemsdal TO, Madsen S, Meland E, et al. Retningslinjer for individuell primærforebygging av hjerte- og karsykdommer [Norwegian]. Oslo: Helsedirektoratet 2009 Contract No.: IS-1550.

16.           Wisløff T, Norheim OF, Halvorsen S, Selmer RM, Kristiansen IS. Kostnader og leveårsgevinster ved medikamentell primærforebygging av hjertekarsykdom. Rapport nr 29-2008. Oslo: Nasjonalt kunnskapssenter for helsetjenesten 2008.

17.           Fretheim A, Håheim LL, Brørs O, Kjeldsen SE, Kristiansen IS, Madsen S, et al. Primærforebygging av hjerte- og karsykdom. Rapport nr 20-2008. Oslo: Nasjonalt kunnskapssenter for helsetjenesten2008.

18.           Carlsen B, Aakvik A, Norheim OF. Variation in practice: a questionnaire survey of how congruence in attitudes between doctors and patients influences referral decisions. Med Decis Making. 2008 Mar-Apr;28(2):262-8.

19.           Carlsen B, Norheim OF. "What lies beneath it all?"--an interview study of GPs' attitudes to the use of guidelines. BMC Health Serv Res. 2008;8:218.

20.           Norheim OF. The role of formal outcome evaluations in health policy making: a normative perspective. In: In ter-Meulen R, Biller-Andorno N, Lenk C, Lie R, editors. Evidence-Based Practice in Medicine & Health Care A Discussion of the Ethical Issues. Berlin: Springer; 2005. p. 139-49.

21.           Norheim OF. Rights to specialized health care in Norway: a normative perspective. J Law Med Ethics. 2005 Winter;33(4):641-9.

22.           Norheim OF. Hva hindrer åpenhet om prioriteringer? Tidsskrift for Norsk Velferdsforskning. 2005;2(15):34-42.

23.           Norheim OF. Praktisering av prioriteringsforskriften i Helse Vest. Sluttrapport. Desember 2005. Bergen: Helse Vest2005.

24.           Carlsen B, Norheim OF. "Saying no is no easy matter" a qualitative study of competing concerns in rationing decisions in general practice. BMC Health Serv Res. 2005 Nov 9;5:70.

25.           Robberstad B, Olsen JA. The health related quality of life of people living with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa - a literature review and focus group study. Cost Eff Resour Alloc. 2010;8:5.

26.           Johansson K, Robberstad B, Norheim O. Further benefits by early start of HIV treatment in low income countries: A meta-analysis and survival estimates of early versus deferred antiretroviral therapy. AIDS Research and Therapy. 2010;7(3).

27.           Chola L, Robberstad B. Estimating average inpatient and outpatient costs and childhood pneumonia and diarrhoea treatment costs in an urban health centre in Zambia. Cost Eff Resour Alloc. 2009;7:16.

28.           Bikilla AD, Jerene D, Robberstad B, Lindtjorn B. Cost-effectiveness of anti-retroviral therapy at a district hospital in southern Ethiopia. Cost Eff Resour Alloc. 2009;7:13.

29.           Bikilla AD, Jerene D, Robberstad B, Lindtjorn B. Cost estimates of HIV care and treatment with and without anti-retroviral therapy at Arba Minch Hospital in southern Ethiopia. Cost Eff Resour Alloc. 2009;7:6.

30.           Robberstad B, Hemed Y, Norheim OF. Cost-effectiveness of medical interventions to prevent cardiovascular disease in a sub-Saharan African country--the case of Tanzania. Cost Eff Resour Alloc. 2007;5:3.

31.           Robberstad B, Cairns J. Time preferences for health in northern Tanzania: an empirical analysis of alternative discounting models. Pharmacoeconomics. 2007;25(1):73-88.

32.           Wandwalo E, Robberstad B, Morkve O. Cost and cost-effectiveness of community based and health facility based directly observed treatment of tuberculosis in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Cost Eff Resour Alloc. 2005 Jul 14;3:6.

33.           Robberstad B. QALYs vs DALYs vs LYs gained: What are the differences, and what difference do they make for health care priority setting? Norsk Epidemiologi. 2005;15(2):183-91.

34.           Robberstad B. Estimation of private and social time preferences for health in northern Tanzania. Soc Sci Med. 2005 Oct;61(7):1597-607.

35.           Norheim OF. Priority to the young or to those with least lifetime health? Am J Bioeth. 2010 Apr;10(4):60-1.

36.           Sofaer N, Kapiriri L, Atuyambe LM, Otolok-Tanga E, Norheim OF. Is the selection of patients for anti-retroviral treatment in Uganda fair?: A qualitative study. Health Policy. 2009 June;91(1):33-42.

37.           Norheim OF, Asada Y. The ideal of equal health revisited: definitions and measures of inequity in health should be better integrated with theories of distributive justice. Int J Equity Health. 2009;8:40 pages.

38.           Norheim OF. A note on Brock: prioritarianism, egalitarianism and the distribution of life years. J Med Ethics. 2009 Sep;35(9):565-9.

39.           Norheim OF. Implementing the Marmot Commission's Recommendations: Social Justice Requires a Solution to the Equity-Efficiency Trade-Off. Public Health Ethics. 2009;doi: 10.1093/phe/php006.

40.           Maestad O, Norheim OF. Eliciting people's preferences for the distribution of health: A procedure for a more precise estimation of distributional weights. J Health Econ. 2009 May;28(3):570-7.

41.           Kapiriri L, Norheim OF, Martin DK. Fairness and accountability for reasonableness. Do the views of priority setting decision makers differ across health systems and levels of decision making? Soc Sci Med. 2009 Feb;68(4):766-73.

42.           Ottersen T, Mbilinyi D, Maestad O, Norheim OF. Distribution matters: equity considerations among health planners in Tanzania. Health Policy. 2008 Feb;85(2):218-27.

43.           Johansson KA, Jerene D, Norheim OF. National HIV treatment guidelines in Tanzania and Ethiopia: are they legitimate rationing tools? J Med Ethics. 2008 June 1, 2008;34(6):478-83.

44.           Makundi E, Kapiriri L, Norheim OF. Combining evidence and values in priority setting: testing the balance sheet method in a low-income country. BMC Health Serv Res. 2007;7:152.

45.           Kapiriri L, Norheim OF, Martin DK. Priority setting at the micro-, meso- and macro-levels in Canada, Norway and Uganda. Health Policy. 2007 Jun;82(1):78-94.

46.           Olsen OE, Ndeki S, Norheim OF. Human resources for emergency obstetric care in northern Tanzania: distribution of quantity or quality? Hum Resour Health. 2005 Jul 29;3:5.

47.           Norheim OF. Clinical priority setting. BMJ. 2008;Oct 9;337:a1846. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a1846.

* = Includes both articles and public reports