• Combining education and income into a socioeconomic position score for use in studies of health inequalities 

      Lindberg, Marie Hella; Chen, Gang; Olsen, Jan Abel; Abelsen, Birgit (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-05-13)
      Background: In studies of social inequalities in health, there is no consensus on the best measure of socioeconomic position (SEP). Moreover, subjective indicators are increasingly used to measure SEP. The aim of this paper was to develop a composite score for SEP based on weighted combinations of education and income in estimating subjective SEP, and examine how this score performs in predicting ...
    • eRegTime, Efficiency of Health Information Management Using an Electronic Registry for Maternal and Child Health: Protocol for a Time-Motion Study in a Cluster Randomized Trial 

      Lindberg, Marie Hella; Venkateswaran, Mahima; Abu Khader, Khadija; Awwad, Tamara; Ghanem, Buthaina; Hijaz, Taghreed; Blom-Bakke, Kjersti Mørkrid; Frøen, J. Frederik (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-08-07)
      <i>Background</i>: Paper-based routine health information systems often require repetitive data entry. In the West Bank, the primary health care system for maternal and child health was entirely paper-based, with care providers spending considerable amounts of time maintaining multiple files and client registers. As part of the phased national implementation of an electronic health information system, ...
    • Explaining subjective social status in two countries: The relative importance of education, occupation, income and childhood circumstances 

      Lindberg, Marie Hella; Chen, Gang; Olsen, Jan Abel; Abelsen, Birgit (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-07-03)
      In the literature on social inequalities in health, subjective socioeconomic position (SEP) is increasingly applied as a determinant of health, motivated by the hypothesis that having a high subjective SEP is health-enhancing. However, the relative importance of determinants of subjective SEP is not well understood. Objective SEP indicators, such as education, occupation and income, are assumed to ...
    • Health and wellbeing in Norway: Population norms and the social gradient 

      Olsen, Jan Abel; Lindberg, Marie Hella; Lamu, Admassu Nadew (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-07-03)
      Measures of health-related quality of life are important in health technology assessments, and useful when analysing health inequalities across population sub-groups. This paper provides population norms on health and wellbeing in Norway based on two waves of a comprehensive health survey: Wave 6 of The Tromsø Study conducted in 2007/08 (N = 12,981) and Wave 7 conducted in 2015/16 (N = 21,083). By ...
    • Measuring socioeconomic position in studies of health inequalities 

      Lindberg, Marie Hella (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2024-02-08)
      <p>There is a consistent finding that the higher the socioeconomic position (SEP), the better the health. The choice of SEP indicator is crucial in explaining these socioeconomic inequalities. However, a poorly motivated use of SEP indicators prevails in the literature on social health inequalities, hampering the transparency and comparability across studies. Its primary aim is to explore different ...