Doctoral thesis

Johansson, N. (2021) Price sensitivity and regional variation in health care. [Doctoral thesis, University of Gothenburg]. Gothenburg University Publications Electronic Archive gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/67121 

Peer-reviewed publications

13. de Brun M*, Johansson N*, Simmons D, Montgomery S, (...) Ryen L, Backman H (2025). Implications of Changing the Diagnostic Criteria for Gestational diabetes mellitus (CDC4G): a healthcare cost analysis alongside a stepped wedge cluster randomised trial. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Accepted August 2025.

12. Svensson, M., Siverskog, J., Johansson, N. & Henriksson, M. (2025). Reproducibility of published model-based cancer drug cost-effectiveness analyses: a study protocol for a cross-sectional analysis. BMJ Open, 15(6)

11. Johansson, N., Nystrand, C. & Blom, J. (2024). Costs of colorectal cancer screening in Sweden: an observational, longitudinal cost description. BMJ Open Gastroenterology,  11: e001574.

10. Hansson, S., Johansson, N., Lindsten, R., Petrén, S.  & Bazargani, F. (2024) Posterior crossbite corrections in the early mixed dentition with quad helix or rapid maxillary expander: a cost-effectiveness analysis of a randomized controlled trial. European Journal of Orthodontics, 46(3).

9. Svensson, M., Chauca Strand, G., Bonander, C. Johansson, N. & Jakobsson, N. (2024). Analyses of quality of life in cancer drug trials - a review of measurements and analytical choices in post-reimbursement studies. BMC Cancer, 24:311. 

8. Johansson, N., Jakobsson, N., & Svensson, M. (2024). Place or patient as the driver of regional variation in healthcare spending - discrepancies by category of care. Social Science & Medicine, 342, 116571.

7. Fledsberg, S., Svensson, M. & Johansson, N. (2023). Lifetime healthcare expenditures across socioeconomic groups in Sweden. European Journal of Public Health 33(6), 994-1000. 

6. Chauca Strand, G., Johansson, N., Jakobsson, N., Bonander, C., & Svensson, M. (2023). Cancer Drugs Reimbursed with Limited Evidence on Overall Survival and Quality of Life: Do Follow‑Up Studies Confirm Patient Benefts? Clinical Drug Investigation 43, 621-633. 

5. Johansson, N., de New, S. C., Kunz, J. S., Petrie, D., & Svensson, M. (2023). Reductions in out-of-pocket prices and forward-looking moral hazard in health care demand. Journal of Health Economics, 87, 102710. 

4. Chauca Strand, G., Bonander, C., Jakobsson, N., Johansson, N., & Svensson, M. (2022). Assessment of the clinical and cost-effectiveness evidence in the reimbursement decisions of new cancer drugs. ESMO Open 7(5). 

3. Johansson, N., & Svensson, M. (2022). Regional variation in prescription drug spending: Evidence from regional migrants in Sweden. Health Economics, 31(9), 1862-1877. 

2. Johansson, N., Jakobsson, N., & Svensson, M. (2019). Effects of primary care cost-sharing among young adults: varying impact across income groups and gender. European Journal of Health Economics, 20(8), 1271-1280.

1. Johansson, N., Jakobsson, N., & Svensson, M. (2018). Regional variation in health care utilization in Sweden - the importance of demand-side factors. BMC Health Services Research, 18, 403. 

Work in progress

Digital healthcare for children - effects on demand for healthcare

Health economic aspects of colorectal cancer screening - cost-effectiveness, cost-of-illness and consequences of false positive tests

Can we trust health economic evaluations of new pharmaceuticals? Researcher’s degrees of freedom in many-analysts approach

International mobility

Visiting PhD student at the Centre for Health Economics, Monash University, 2019.09-2019.11

Teaching  

Scientific perspectives, Region Örebro, 2022-2023

Microeconomics & health economics, various courses, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, 2017-2022

Medical statistics, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, 2016-2017

Supervision

Jenny Karlsson, PhD student, Karolinska Institute, 2023 - ongoing

Gabriella Chauca Strand, PhD student, University of Gothenburg, 2022 - ongoing

Master's theses, Masters program in Health economics, policy and management, Karolinska Institutet, 2025

Master's theses, Masters program in Public Health, University of Gothenburg, 2022-2023

Bachelor's thesis, Economics, Örebro University, 2023-2024

Bachelor's theses, Occupational therapist program, Örebro University, 2022-2023

Media coverage 

LIfetime healthcare expenditures across socioeconomic groups 

• Svenska Dagbladet (web 1 Jan 2024) Forskning: Svenskarna som lever längst – och kostar minst 

Patient out-of-pocket prices and forward-looking moral hazard 

• Svenska Dagbladet (print & web 17 Dec 2022) 85-plussare bryr sig inte om gratis vård 

• Läkartidningen (web 13 Dec 2022) Ny studie: Avgiftsfri primärvård för de äldsta ledde inte till fler vårdbesök 

Regional variation in health care expenditures

• Svenska Dagbladet  (print & web 2 Sept 2021) Många läkarbesök i Stockholm – färre ute i landet 

• SVT Forum (TV & online Sept 2021) Vård på lika villkor?  

• Läkartidningen (web 6 Sept 2021)  Forskare: Bättre data krävs för att förstå regionala skillnader

Patient out-of-pocket prices and socioeconomic differences 

• Dagens medicin (print & web 21 Mars 2018) Patientavgift skrämde bort lågavlönade unga  

• Aftonbladet (web 21 Aug 2019) Färre läkarbesök när unga måste betala 

Leadership    

Chair of the PhD Student Council at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, 2019-2020. Member of the PhD Student Council and PhD Student representative in various faculty councils for research and research education, 2017 - 2020. 

Initiator and member of the PhD Student Committee at the Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, 2018-2021. 

Part of the organizing team of the SHEA PhD students' network (Swedish Health Economics Association's PhD students' network), 2018-2021.