Browsing Institutt for helse og samfunn by Author "Røttingen, John-Arne"
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Grépin, Karen A.; Pinkstaff, Crossley B.; Hole, Arne Risa; Henderson, Klara; Norheim, Ole Frithjof; Røttingen, John-Arne; Ottersen, Trygve (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Most donors of external financing for health use allocation policies to determine which countries are eligible to receive financial support and how much support each should receive. Currently, most of these policies place ...
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Kinge, Jonas Minet; Roxrud, Ingrid; Vollset, Stein Emil; Skirbekk, Vegard; Røttingen, John-Arne (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)Background The relationship between research funding across therapeutic areas and the burden of disease in Norway has not been investigated. Further, few studies have looked at the association between national research ...
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Ottersen, Trygve; Moon, Suerie; Røttingen, John-Arne (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)Recent developments have transformed the role and characteristics of middle-income countries (MICs). Many stakeholders now question the appropriate role of MICs in the system of development assistance for health (DAH), and ...
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Årdal, Christine; Alstadsæter, Annette; Røttingen, John-Arne (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2011)Background Innovation through an open source model has proven to be successful for software development. This success has led many to speculate if open source can be applied to other industries with similar ...
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Gopinathan, Unni; Watts, Nicholas; Hougendobler, Daniel; Lefebvre, Alexandre; Cheung, Arthur; Hoffman, Steven J.; Røttingen, John-Arne (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)Background Two themes consistently emerge from the broad range of academics, policymakers and opinion leaders who have proposed changes to the World Health Organization (WHO): that reform efforts are too slow, and that ...
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Outterson, Kevin; Gopinathan, Unni; Clift, Charles; So, Anthony D.; Morel, Chantal M.; Røttingen, John-Arne (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)Summary Points: The current business model for antibiotics is plagued by market failures and perverse incentives that both work against conservation efforts and provide insufficient rewards to drive the development of ...
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Ottersen, Trygve; Kamath, Aparna; Moon, Suerie; Martinsen, Lene; Røttingen, John-Arne (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)After years of unprecedented growth in development assistance for health (DAH), the system is challenged on several fronts: by the economic downturn and stagnation of DAH, by the epidemiological transition and increase in ...
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Ottersen, Trygve; Moon, Suerie; Røttingen, John-Arne (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)After years of unprecedented growth in development assistance for health (DAH), the DAH system is challenged on several fronts: by the economic downturn and stagnation of DAH, by the epidemiological transition and increase ...
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Henao-Restrepo, Ana Maria; Camacho, Anton; Longini, Ira M; Watle, Sara Sofie Viksmoen; Norheim, Gunnstein; Røttingen, John-Arne (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)Background rVSV-ZEBOV is a recombinant, replication competent vesicular stomatitis virus-based candidate vaccine expressing a surface glycoprotein of Zaire Ebolavirus. We tested the effect of rVSV-ZEBOV in preventing Ebola ...
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Årdal, Christine Oline; Røttingen, John-Arne (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)Background Nodding syndrome is a neurological disease with no known cure or treatment, impacting children aged 3–18 years old, mainly in East Africa. Children progressively develop varying degrees of cognitive impairment ...
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Balasegaram, Manica; Brechot, Christian; Farrar, Jeremy; Heymann, David; Ganguly, Nirmal; Khor, Martin; Levy, Yves; Matsoso, Precious; Minghui, Ren; Pecoul, Bernard; Peilong, Liu; Tanner, Marcel; Røttingen, John-Arne (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)Anti-microbial resistance, emerging infectious diseases, and neglected diseases are all important public health concerns and priorities with serious market failures, deficits, and identified needs in biomedical innovation. It ...
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Gopinathan, Unni; Watts, Nick; Lefebvre, Alexandre; Cheung, Arthur; Hoffman, Steven J; Røttingen, John-Arne (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)This comparative case study investigated how two intergovernmental organisations without formal health mandates – the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) – have engaged with ...
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Årdal, Christine; Baraldi, Enrico; Theuretzbacher, Ursula; Outterson, Kevin; Plahte, Jens; Ciabuschi, Francesco; Røttingen, John-Arne (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Background Antibiotic innovation has dwindled to dangerously low levels in the past 30 years. Since resistance continues to evolve, this innovation deficit can have perilous consequences on patients. A ...
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Kållberg, Cecilia Birgit Maria; Årdal, Christine Oline; Blix, Hege Salvesen; Klein, Eili; Martinez, Elena M; Lindbæk, Morten; Outterson, Kevin; Røttingen, John-Arne; Laxminarayan, Ramanan (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Background Despite the urgent need for new, effective antibiotics, few antibiotics of value have entered the market during the past decades. Therefore, incentives have been developed to stimulate antibiotic R&D. For ...
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Ottersen, Trygve; Grépin, Karen A.; Henderson, Klara; Pinkstaff, Crossley Beth; Norheim, Ole Frithjof; Røttingen, John-Arne (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)The distributions of income and health within and across countries are changing. This challenges the way donors allocate development assistance for health (DAH) and particularly the role of gross national income per capita ...
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Årdal, Christine Oline; Røttingen, John-Arne (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)Greater investment is required in developing new drugs and vaccines against malaria in order to eradicate malaria. These precious funds must be carefully managed to achieve the greatest impact. We evaluate existing efforts ...
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Kriegner, Sabrina; Ottersen, Trygve; Røttingen, John-Arne; Gopinathan, Unni (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)Background: Intersectoral collaboration is critical to the successful implementation of many public health interventions (PHIs). Little attention has been paid to whether and how processes at the stage of evaluation can ...
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Kållberg, Cecilia Birgit Maria; Hudson, Jemma; Blix, Hege Salvesen; Årdal, Christine Oline; Klein, E; Lindbæk, Morten; Outterson, Kevin; Røttingen, John-Arne; Laxminarayan, Ramanan (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)When patented, brand-name antibiotics lose market exclusivity, generics typically enter the market at lower prices, which may increase consumption of the drug. To examine the effect of generic market entry on antibiotic ...
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Ottersen, Trygve; Elovainio, Riku; Evans, David B.; McCoy, David; McIntyre, Di; Meheus, Filip; Moon, Suerie; Ooms, Gorik; Røttingen, John-Arne (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)The articles in this special issue have demonstrated how unprecedented transitions have come with both challenges and opportunities for health financing. Against the background of these challenges and opportunities, the ...
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McIntyre, Di; Meheus, Filip; Røttingen, John-Arne (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)Global discussions on universal health coverage (UHC) have focussed attention on the need for increased government funding for health care in many low- and middle-income countries. The objective of this paper is to explore ...