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Scientist profile

Muhammad Kamrul Islam

Forsker II

Title: Forsker II

Phone: +47 55 58 38 93

E-mail:

Visiting address: Nygårdsgt. 5

  • Health Economics

  • Social Insurance Economics

  • Applied Microeconometrics

BSc & MSc in Econ (JU, BD)

MSc in Health Econ (York, UK);

PhD in Health Econ (Lund, Sweden)

Publications in Cristin

Selected International Publications

• "Does variation in general practitioner (GP) practice matter for the length of sick leave? A multilevel analysis based on Norwegian GP-patient data". Social Science and Medicine, 70, 1590–1598, 2010 (With Arild Aakvik and Tor Helge Holmås).

• "Does income-related health inequality change as the population ages? Evidence from Swedish panel data". Health Economics, 19 (3), 334-349, 2010. (With U-G. Gerdtham, P. Clarke and K. Burström).

• Social capital externalities and mortality in Sweden". Economics and Human Biology, 6 (1), 19-42, 2008. (With U-G. Gerdtham, B. Gullberg, M. Lindström and J. Merlo).

• "Does it really matter where you live? A panel data multilevel analysis of Swedish municipality level social capital on individual health-related quality of life." Health Economics, Policy and Law, 1(3), 209-235, 2006. (With J. Merlo, I. Kawachi, M. Lindström, K. Burström and U-G. Gerdtham).

• "Social capital and health: Does egalitarianism matter? A literature review", International Journal for Equity in Health, 5 (3), 2006. ( With J. Merlo, I. Kawachi, M. Lindström and U-G. Gerdtham).

• "Formal and informal care for people with Dementia: variation in costs over time." Ageing & Society, 23, 303-326, 2003. (With Justine Schneider, et al.).

• "Formal and informal care for people with Dementia: Factors associated with service receipt". Aging & Mental Health, 6 (3), 255-265, 2002. (With Justine Schneider, et al.).

• "Costing non-market activities in health care: probable options: Bangladesh perspective". Jahangirnagar Economic Review,  12(1):11-20, 2001. (with T. Pervin and M.N. Hoque).

•"Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) as a measure of health utility", Jahangirnagar Economic Review, 11 (1): 63-73, 2000. (with M.N. Hoque and A. Hossain).

• "Domestic resource mobilization efforts since independence." In 'Bangladesh at 25', Chapter 8, edited by Abdul Bayes and Anu Muhammad, University Press Limited (UPL), Dhaka, 1998. (With M. Mahmud and S.M. Harun).

• "Influences of fiscal and monetary policy instruments on economic activity: The case of Bangladesh". Jahangirnagar Economic Review, 9(1): 1-11, 1997. (with K. Munim)

Referred working papers

Islam M. K., Gerdtham U-G (2006). The costs of maternal-newborn illness and mortality. Discussion paper series: Moving towards universal coverage – Maternal-newborn health and poverty, Working Paper N0. 2. WHO, Geneva. ISBN:9241594497.

Work in progress

• "Teachers' sickness absence in primary schools: A panel data multilevel analysis". With Espen Bratberg, Tor Helge Holmås and Kjell Vaage. Submitted.

• "Sickness Absence among Immigrants in Norway: Does Occupational difference Matter?" with Hans-Tore Hansen, Tor Helge Holmås,  Gazala Naz.

• "Interdependence between Social Care and Hospital Care: the Case of Hospital Length of Stay". With Tor Helge Holmås and Egil Kjerstad.

• "The Social Capital and Health Hypothesis:  A theory and new empirics featuring the Norwegian HUNT data" With  Sherman Folland and Oddvar Kaarboe.

• "Hospitals' Bed Blocking by Elderly Patients: Do Social Care Resources Matter?" With Tor Helge Holmås and Egil Kjerstad.

 

Health Economics (ECON 321)