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Increasing socio-economic inequalities in life expectancy and QALYs in Sweden 1980-1997Kristina Burstrom
Department of Public Health Sciences, Division of Social Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Health Econ 14:831-50. 2005..The widening socio-economic inequalities over time were more stable for men than for women. We conclude that our results suggest that the socio-economic inequality in health has increased between 1980 and 1997 in Sweden...
A comparison of individual and social time trade-off values for health states in the general populationKristina Burstrom
Department of Public Health Sciences, Division of Social Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Norrbacka, SE 171 76 Stockholm, Sweden
Health Policy 76:359-70. 2006..The social EQ-5D index tariff may also underestimate the severity in health status at older ages; age appears to correlate with additional health problems not captured by the EQ-5D classification...
Deteriorating health status in Stockholm 1998-2002: results from repeated population surveys using the EQ-5DKristina Burstrom
Department of Public Health Sciences, Division of Social Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Norrbacka, 171 76 Stockholm, Sweden
Qual Life Res 16:1547-53. 2007..CONCLUSION: The observed deterioration in health status over time gives reason for concern. Investigation of reasons for the declining health status should be a research priority...
Regional differences in health status in China: population health-related quality of life results from the National Health Services Survey 2008Sun Sun
Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Medical Management Centre, Karolinska Institutet, Nobels väg 15a, SE 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
Health Place 17:671-80. 2011..Data were obtained via face-to-face interviews on a national representative sample (n=120,703, 15-103 years). The EQ-5D instrument was used to measure health status...
Testing a Swedish child-friendly pilot version of the EQ-5D instrument--initial resultsKristina Burstrom
Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Medical Management Centre, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Eur J Public Health 21:178-83. 2011..A Swedish child-friendly pilot version of the EQ-5D instrument has been developed. The aim of this article is to report on its assessment of feasibility and discriminative validity...
Health-related quality of life (EQ-5D) among homeless persons compared to a general population sample in Stockholm County, 2006Sun Sun
Medical Management Centre, Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Scand J Public Health 40:115-25. 2012..To describe and compare health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among homeless persons with a general population sample in Stockholm County, 2006, and to analyse the importance of certain social determinants of health among the homeless...
The value of the change in health in Sweden 1980/81 to 1996/97Kristina Burstrom
Department of Public Health Sciences, Division of Social Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Norrbacka, Stockholm, Sweden
Health Econ 12:637-54. 2003..15 (115,000 dollars) and 0.80 (80,000 dollars), respectively. It is concluded that older persons have experienced considerable health gains whereas the health gains have been small or non-existent for younger women...
Population health status in China: EQ-5D results, by age, sex and socio-economic status, from the National Health Services Survey 2008Sun Sun
Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Medical Management Centre, Karolinska Institutet, Nobels väg 15a, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
Qual Life Res 20:309-20. 2011..To measure and analyse national EQ-5D data and to provide norms for the Chinese general population by age, sex, educational level, income and employment status...
A Swedish child-friendly pilot version of the EQ-5D instrument--the development processKristina Burstrom
Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Medical Management Centre, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Eur J Public Health 21:171-7. 2011..The aim of this article is to describe and discuss the development process of a Swedish child-friendly pilot version of the EQ-5D instrument...
