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Soziale Ungleichheit und Gesundheit: Erklärungsansätze und gesundheitspolitische Folgerungen

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Social Inequalities in Health: New Evidence and Policy Implications has been highly commended in the recend British Medical Association Book Awards, awarded on the 12th of September, 2007.

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Professor Dr. Johannes Siegrist

Director, Dept. of Medical Sociology, University of Duesseldorf and

Director of the Postgradual Training Program 'Public Health', University of Duesseldorf

 

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Education / Training

1973 Habilitation in Sociology at the University of Freiburg i. Br., Germany
1969 Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Freiburg i. Br., Germany
1967 M.A in Sociology, University of Freiburg i. Br., Germany
1963-1969 Studies of sociology, social psychology, philosophy and history at the University of Basel and Freiburg i. Br.

Positions, Honors & Awards

1973-1992 Professor of Medical Sociology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Marburg, Germany (interrupted by visiting Professorships at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Vienna, Austria (1977-1979) and at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA (1991))
Since 1992 Professor of Medical Sociology and Director of the Postgraduate Training Program on Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Heinrich Heine-University Duesseldorf, Germany
Honors and Awards (Chronological)
- Hans Roemer Award (German College of Psychosomatic Medicine 1979)
- Belle van Zuylen Chair (University of Utrecht, Netherlands 1994)
- Honorary member European Society of Health and Medical Sociology 1998
- Elected Member Academia Europaea London 2000
- Salomon Neumann Award German Society of Social Medicine and Prevention 2001
- Fellow European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology 2003
- Honorary Member German Society of Medical Sociology 2003
- Research Award European Society of Health and Medical Sociology 2004
- Corresponding Member, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences 2004

Memberships, Offices & Committee Assignments

President of the International Society of Behavioural Medicine (1996-1998), of the European Society of Health and Medical Sociology (1990-1992); Director European Science Foundation Program on Social Variations in Health Expectancy in Europe (1999-2003); Chair Section "Behavioural Sciences", Academia Europaea (since 2004)

Major Research Interests

Chronic psychosocial stress at work and development of chronic diseases
Social determinants of health in early old age
Concepts and measurements of social inequalities in health
Sociological aspects of clinical decision-making and evaluation research

Forschung

Das Modell beruflicher Gratifikationskrisen - The Model of Effort-Reward Imbalance

Publikationen / Bücher

Ein Verzeichnis sämtlicher Publikationen von 1992 bis 2009 findet sich im Institutsbericht.

 

Publikationen 2006

 

Kopp M, Skrabski A, Szanto Z, Siegrist J: Psychosocial determinants of premature cardiovascular mortality differences within Hungary. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 60: 782-788.

 

Kröger K, Atang A, Kondratieva J, Moebus S, Beck E, Schmermund A, Möhlenkamp S, Dragano N, Siegrist J, Jöckel KH, Erbel R on behalf of the Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study Group: Prevalence of peripheral arterial disease – results of the Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study. European Journal of Epidemiology 21: 279-285.

 

Peter R, Hammarström A, Hallqvist J, Siegrist J, Theorell T and the SHEEP Study Group: Does occupational gender segregation influence the association of effort-reward imbalance with myocardial infarction in the SHEEP Study? International Journal of Behavioral Medicine 1: 34-43.

 

Siegrist J, Rödel A: Work stress and health risk behavior. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health 32: 473-481.

 

Siegrist J, Wahrendorf M, von dem Knesebeck O, Jürges H, Börsch-Supan A: Quality of work, well-being, and intended early retirement of older employees – baseline results from the SHARE Study. The European Journal of Public Health 17: 62-68.


Siegrist J: Dragano N: Berufliche Belastungen und Gesundheit. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie Sonderheft 46: 109-124.

 

Siegrist J: Was trägt Stressforschung zur Erklärung des sozialen Gradienten koronarer Herzkrankheiten bei? (The contribution of stress research towards explaining the social gradient of coronary heart disease) Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift 131: 762-766.

 

Siegrist J: Work, health and welfare: new challenges. International Journal of Social Welfare 15: 5-12.

 

Stang A, Moebus S, Möhlenkamp S, Dragano N, Schmermund A, Beck EM, Siegrist J, Erbel R, Jöckel KH, on behalf of the Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study Investigative Group (2006) Algorithms for converting Hawksley random zero to automated oscillometric blood pressure values and vice versa. American Journal of Epidemiology 164: 85-94.

 

Wahrendorf M, von dem Knesebeck O, Siegrist J: Social productivity and well-being of older people: Baseline results from the SHARE study. European Journal of Ageing 3(2): 67-73.

 

Weyers S, Peter R, Boggild H, Jeppesen HJ, Siegrist J: Psychosocial work stress is associated with poor self-rated health in Danish nurses: a test of the effort-reward imbalance model. Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences 20: 26-34.

 

Publikationen 2007

Bönte M, von dem Knesebeck O, Siegrist J, Marceau L, Link C, McKinlay J: Einfluss von Patientenalter und Patientengeschlecht auf ärztliche Entscheidungen bei koronarer Herzkrankheit. Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift 132: 2251-2255.

 

Chandola T, Marmot M, Siegrist J: Failed reciprocity in close social relationships and health: findings from the Whitehall II study. Journal of Psychosomatic Research 63: 403-411.

 

Dragano N, Bobak M, Wege N, Perasey A, Verde PE, Kubinova R, Weyers S, Moebus S, Möhlenkamp S, Stang A, Erbel R, Jöckel KH, Siegrist J, Pikhart H: Neighbourhood socio-economic status and cardiovascular risk factors: a multilevel analysis of nine cities in the Czech Republic and Germany. BMC Public Health 7: 255.

 

Dragano N, Verde P, Möbus S, Stang A, Schmermund A, Roggenbuck U, Möhlenkamp S, Peter R, Jöckel KH, Erbel R, Siegrist J for the Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study: Subclinical coronary atherosclerosis is more pronounced in men and women with lower socioeconomic status. Associations in a population based study. European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation 14: 568-574.

 

Erbel R, Möhlenkamp S, Lehmann N, Schmermund A, Möbus S, Stang A, Dragano N, Hoffmann B, Grönemeyer D, Seibel R, Mann K, Kröger K, Broecker-Preuss M, Volbracht L, Siegrist J, Jöckel KH: Kardiovaskuläre Risikofaktoren und Zeichen der subklinischen Atherosklerose in der bevölkerungsbezogenen Heinz Nixdorf Recall Studie. Deutsches Ärzteblatt 105: 1-8.

 

Eum KD, Li J, Lee HE, Kim SS, Paek D, Siegrist J, Cho SI: Psychometric properties of the Korean version of the effort-reward imbalance questionnaire: a study in a petrochemical company. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health 80: 653-661.

 

Head J, Kivimäki M, Siegrist J, Ferrie JE, Vahtera J, Shipley MJ, Marmot MG: Effort-reward imbalance and relational injustice at work predict sickness absence: the Whitehall II study. Journal of Psychosomatic Research 63: 433-440.

 

Kivimäki M, Vahtera J, Elovainio M, Virtanen M, Siegrist J: Effort-reward imbalance, procedural injustice and relational injustice as psychosocial predictors of health: complementary or redundant models? Occupational and Environmental Medicine 64: 659-665.

 

von dem Knesebeck O, Wahrendorf M, Hyde M, Siegrist J: Socio-economic position and quality of life among older people in 10 European countries: results of the SHARE study. Ageing & Society 27: 269-284.

 

Lee MS, Paek D, Eum KD, Siegrist J, Li J, Lee H-E, Cho SI: Paternal work stress and prolonged time to pregnancy. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health 82: 209-216.

 

Möhlenkamp S, Möbus S, Schmermund A, Lehmann N, Hoffmann B, Neumann T, Stang A, Dragano N, Kerkhoff G, Naber C, Kälsch H, Beck EM, Bröcker-Preuss M, Kröger K, Budde T, Siegrist J, Mann K, Jöckel KH, Erbel R für die Studiengruppe der Heinz Nixdorf Recall Studie: Analyse des natürlichen Verlaufs der Koronargefäßverkalkung und Identifizierung ihrer Determinanten. Herz 32: 108-120.

 

Richter M, Lob G, Pühlhofer F, Siegrist J, Becker C, Dreinhöfer K, Ekkernkamp A, Feldmann M, Fieguth A, Haasper C, Gebhard F, Icks A, Klewinert J, Knobloch K, Lampl L, Liener U, Märzheuser S, Oestern HJ, Pistor G,  von  Renteln-Kruse W, Seifert J, Wildner M: Prävention von Verletzungen als ärztliche Aufgabe. Unfallchirurg 110: 734-744.

 

Siegrist J, Wahrendorf M, von dem Knesebeck O, Jürges H, Börsch-Supan A: Quality of work, well-being, and intended early retirement of older employees – baseline results from the SHARE Study. European Journal of Public Health 17: 62-68.

 

Stang A, Dragano N, Poole C, Moebus S, Möhlenkamp S, Schmermund A, Siegrist J, Erbel R, Jöckel KH: Daily siesta, cardiovascular risk factors, and measures of subclinical atherosclerosis: Results of the Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study. Sleep 30 (9): 1111-1119.

 

Publikationen 2008

Bönte M, von dem Knesebeck O, Siegrist J, Marceau L, Link C, Arber S, Adams A, McKinlay JB: Women and men with coronary heart disease in three countries: are they treated differently? Womens Health Issues 18(3): 191-198.

 

Buddeberg-Fischer B, Klaghofer R, Stamm M, Siegrist J, Buddeberg C: Work stress and reduced health in young physicians: prospective evidence from Swiss residents. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health 82(1): 31-38.

 

de Jonge J, van der Linden S, Schaufeli W, Peter R, Siegrist J: Factorial invariance and stability of the Effort-Reward Imbalance Scales: a longitudinal analysis of two samples with different time lags. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine 15(1): 62-72.

Dragano N, He Y, Moebus S, Jöckel KH, Erbel R, Siegrist J, Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study: Two models of job stress and depressive symptoms. Results from a population-based study. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 43(1): 72-78.

 

Erbel R, Möhlenkamp S, Lehmann N, Schmermund A, Moebus S, Stang A, Grönemeyer D, Seibel R, Mann K, Volbracht L, Dragano N, Siegrist J, Jöckel KH, Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study Investigative Group: S related cardiovascular risk stratification based on quantification of atherosclerosis and inflammation. Atherosclerosis 197(2): 662-672.

 

Erbel R, Möhlenkamp S, Lehmann N, Schmermund A, Moebus S, Stang A, Dragano N, Hof fmann B, Grönemeyer D, Seibel R, Mann K, Kröger  K, Bröcker-Preuss M, Volbracht L, Siegrist J, Jöckel KH: Kardiovaskuläre Risikofaktoren und Zeichen sublinischer Atherosklerose. Deutsches Ärzteblatt 105. Jg: 1-8.

 

Erbel R, Möhlenkamp S, Lehmann N, Schmermund A, Moebus S, Stang A, Grönemeyer D, Seibel R, Mann K, Volbracht L, Dragano N, Siegrist J, Jöckel KH, on behalf of the Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study Investigative Group: Sex related cardiovascular risk stratification based on quantification of atherosclerosis and inflammation. Atherosclerosis 197: 662-672.

 

Huppert F, Marks N, Clark A, Siegrist J, Stutzer A, Vitterso J & Wahrendorf M:  Measuring well-being across Europe: Description of the ESS Well-being Module and preliminary findings, Social Indicators Research 91(3): 301-315. 

 

 

Moebus S, Stang A, Möhlenkamp S, Dragano N, Schmermund A, Slomiany U, Hoffmann B, Bauer M, Broecker-Preuss M, Mann K, Siegrist J, Erbel R, Jöckel KH; Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study Group: Association of impaired fasting glucose and coronary artery calcification as a marker of subclinical atherosclerosis in a population-based cohort - results of the Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study. Diabetologia 52: 81-89.

 

Siegrist J, Dragano N: Psychosoziale Belastungen und Erkrankungsrisiken im Erwerbsleben [Psychosocial stress and disease risks in occupational life. Results of international studies on the demand-control and the effort-reward imbalance models]
Bundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz 51(3): 305-312.


Siegrist J, Wege N, Pühlhofer F, Wahrendorf M: A short generic measure of work stress in the era of globalization: effort-reward imbalance. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health 82: 1005-1013.

 

Siegrist J: Chronic psychosocial stress at work and risk of depression: evidence from prospective studies. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience 258: 115-119.

Siegrist J: Effort-reward imbalance and health in a globalized economy. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, Suppl. 6: 163-168.

 

Siegrist J: Social determinants of health – a cross-cultural perspective. International Journal of Public Health 53: 277-279.

 

Stang A, Dragano N, Moebus S, Mohlenkamp S, Schmermund A, Siegrist J, Erbel R, Jockel KH: Short sleep duration at night: Gender specificity mainly due to ineffectively treated hypertension? American Journal of Epidemiology 167, Suppl. (11): S65-S65.

 

von dem Knesebeck O, Bönte M, Siegrist J, Marceau L, Link C, Arber S, Adams A, McKinlay J:Country differences in the diagnosis and management of coronary heart disease - a comparison between the US, the UK and Germany. BMC Health Services Research 8: 198.

 

Wahrendorf M, Ribet C, Zins M, Siegrist J: Social productivity and depressive symptoms in early old age-results from the GAZEL study. Aging & Mental Health 12(3): 310-316.

Wege N, Dragano N, Erbel R, Jockel KH, Moebus S, Stang A, Siegrist J: When does work stress hurt? Testing the interaction with socioeconomic position in the Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 62(4): 338-341.

 

Wirtz PH, Siegrist J, Rimmele U, Ehlert U: Higher overcommitment to work is associated with lower norepinephrine secretion before and after acute psychosocial stress in men. Psychoneuroendocrinology 33(1): 92-99.

 

Publikationen 2009

Dragano N, Hoffmann B, Moebus S, Möhlenkamp S, Stang S, Verde PE, Jöckel K-H, Erbel R, Siegrist J, Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study Investigative Group (2009) Traffic exposure and subclinical cardiovascular disease: is the association modified by socioeconomic characteristics of individuals and neighbourhoods? Results from a multilevel study in an urban region. Occupational and Environmental Medicine [Epub ahead of print]

 

Dragano N, Hoffmann B, Stang A, Moebus S, Verde PE, Weyers S, Möhlenkamp S, Schmermund A, Mann K, Jöckel KH, Erbel R, Siegrist J, Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study Investigative Group: Subclinical coronary atherosclerosis and neighbourhood deprivation in an urban region. European Journal of Epidemiology 24: 25-35.

 

Fischer JC, Kudielka BM, Känel R von, Siegrist J, Thayer JF, Fischer JE: Bone-narrow derived progenitor cells are associated with psychosocial determinants of health after controlling for classical biological and behavioural cardiovascular risk factors. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity 23: 419-426.

 

Huppert FA, Marks N, Clark A, Siegrist J, Stutzer A, Vitterso, Wahrendorf M: Meauring Well-being across Europe: Description of the ESS Well-being Module and Preliminary Findings. Soc Indic Res 91:301-315

 

Jöckel KH, Lehmann N, Jaeger BR, Moebus S, Möhlenkamp S, Schmermund A, Dragano N, Stang A, Grönemeyer D, Seibel R, Mann K, Volbracht L, Siegrist J, Erbel R: Smoking cessation and subclinical atherosclerosis – Results from the Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study. Atheroclerosis 203: 221-227.

 

von dem Knesebeck O, Dragano N, Moebus S, Jöckel KH, Erbel R, Siegrist J, Heinz-Nixdorf-Recall-Studiengruppe: Psychosoziale Belastungen in sozialen Beziehungen und gesundheitliche Einschränkungen. Psychotherapie Psychosomatik Medizinische Psychologie 59: 186-193.

 

Li J, Siegrist J: Measuring effort-reward imbalance in school settings: a novel approach and its association with self-rated health. Journal of Epidemiology [forthcoming].

 

Lutfey KE, Link CL, Marceau LD, Grant RW, Adams A, Arber S, Siegrist J, Bönte M, von dem Knesebeck O, McKinlay JB: Diagnostic Certainty as a source of medical practice variation on coronary heart disease: results from a cross-national experiment of clinical decision making. Medical Decision Making [forthcoming].

 

Moebus S, Stang A, Möhlenkamp S, Dragano N, Schmermund A, Slomiany U, Hoffmann B, Bauer M, Broecker-Preuss, Mann K, Siegrist J, Erbel R, Jöckel KH: Association of impaired fasting glucose and coronary artery calcification as a marker of subclinical atherosclerosis in a population-based cohort – results of the Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study Group. Diabetologia 52: 81-89.

 

Polidori C, Carillo JC, Verde PE, Sies H, Siegrist J, Stahl W: Plasma micronutrient status is improved after a 3-month dietary intervention with 5 daily portions of fruits and vegetables: implications for optimal antioxidant levels. Nutrition Journal 8: 10.

 

Salavecz G, Chandola T, Pikhart H, Dragano N, Siegrist J, Jöckel K-H, Erbel R, Pajak A, Malyutina S, Kubinova R, Marmot M, Bobak M, Kopp M: Work Stress and Health in Western European and Post-Communist Countries: an East-West Comparison Study. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

 

Siegrist J: Armut und Arbeitslosigkeit – Zur Bedeutung des sozialen Gradienten für die notfallmedizinische Praxis. Notfall und Rettungsmedizin 12: 9-12.

 

Siegrist J: Unfair exchange and health: Social bases of stress-related diseases. Social Theory & Health [forthcoming].

                       

Siegrist J, Wahrendorf M: Participation in socially productive activities and quality of life in early old age: Findings from SHARE, Journal of European Social Policy 19 (4) [Special Issue] [forthcoming].

 

Siegrist J, Wahrendorf M: Quality of work, health, and retirement. Comment. Lancet [forthcoming].

 

Tsutsumi A, Iwata N, Watanabe N, De Jonge J, Pikhart H, Fernandez-Lopez JA, Peter R, Knutsson A, Niedhammer I, Kawakami N, Siegrist J: Application of item response theory to achieve cross-cultural comparability of occupational stress measurement. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research 18: 58-67.

 

Wirtz P, Siegrist J, Schuhmacher A, Hoefels A, Maier W, Zobel AM: Higher overcommitment to work is associated with higher plasma cortisol but not ACTH responses in the combined dexamethasone/CRH test in apparently healthy men and women. Psychoneuroendocrinology [forthcoming].