Hans Olav Melberg

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Hans Olav Melberg er professor i helseøkonomi og helsetjenesteforskning ved Universitetet i Tromsø.

Articles by Hans Olav Melberg

Useful perspective on an overweight population

Hans Olav Melberg

27.09.2023: It is well-known that obesity is related to other health problems, but few researchers have been able to measure the relationship in monetary terms. Even fewer have examined the issue from a population perspective. In the study by Edwards et al. that appears in this issue of the Journal of the...

Hospital expenses towards the end of life

Hans Olav Melberg,
Geir Godager,
Fredrik Alexander Gregersen

23.04.2013: Several international studies show that a considerable proportion of health expenses are spent on treatment in the final phase of life, but the estimates vary greatly (1) – (6). Some of this variation occurs because the studies have different time frames, include different expenses and consider...