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Björn Smedby – contributions to the Health Services
Research and Classifications
Björn Smedby, M.D., Ph.D., Professor Emeritus Health Services Research
Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences Uppsala University, Sweden
E-mail: [email protected]
(Compiled by Lars Berg, Head of WHO FIC Centre in Norway)
Start of research• MD 1959, Gothenburg• 1962 recruited to Uppsala to work with an
international comparative study of the health care systems in the U.S., U.K. and Sweden – aiming at elucidating the effects of the health
system on medical care use and health outcomes
– Publication in Lancet 1968• 1964 piloting the use of in-patient register in
Uppsala Region – with the use of ICD-7 Swedish Clinical
Modification for Morbidity and a Classification of Operations
– became a start of a national in-patient register in Sweden
• PhD 1972
(Photo from paper in Läkartidningen - The Swedish Medical Association Journal - 1967)
Professor 1980 in Health Services Research, Uppsala University
• Academic – Supervised 25 PhD students– Several Swedish research-political commissions
• Classifications and use of classifications– 50 years of work with the Swedish ICD, start 1962, ongoing
work ...some examples• ICD-7 (1964), 8,9,10 Swedish translation & implementation • ICD-8 (1977), ICD-9,10 Swedish Primary Health Care adaptations,
based on ICD • Reporting Basic Data from Primary Health Care (1981-83)
… and still consultant on Classifications for the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare
WHO FIC Network
• 25 years of WHO FIC Network attendance• 1987 initiating the Nordic Collaborating Centre in
Uppsala, Sweden, first Head of Centre 1987-2002Examples of contributions to WHO FIC Network: • A recommended shortlist of diagnoses for hospital
activity analysis. – Final report from the Expert Group on Shortlists for the
EU Hospital Data Project. • A selected shortlist of hospital procedures• Health Classifications in the Nordic Countries
http://nomesco-eng.nom-nos.dk/filer/publikationer/KlassifikationshistorieWeb.pdf
A follow up after half a century …
• Smedby, B., Andersen, R. (2010). International comparisons of health care systems: Conceptual and methodological developments over half a century. Socialmedicinsk Tidskrift, vol. 87, ss. 439-452.
Available in full text (in English): http://journals.sfu.ca/smt/index.php/smt/article/download/749/567
Björn: motto and characteristicsMotto: “A thing worth doing is worth doing well”
Characteristics: curious, hard-working, careful (exact)
Björn working place at home (March 2012, age 80).
From interview in the local newspaper: Upsala Nya Tidning.
The World Health OrganizationFamily of International Classifications
Lifetime Achievement Award
to
Professor Björn Smedby
who has made extensive contributions of outstanding scientific significance to the field of
Classifications at international level
Brasilia, 18 October 2012 WHO FIC Annual Network Meeting
