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On these pages we report on activities of our team that took place a little further back in time. Please contact us if you have any questions about these reports.

 

December 2024

In honor of the scientific activities ofProf. Dr. Siegfried Geyerthe Research and Teaching Unit Medical Sociology is organizing a symposium on Thursday, 5 December 2024 on the topic "The thesis of morbidity compression and other medical sociology papers in honour of Prof. Dr. Siegfried Geyer". Several of his companions will report on their joint projects and his scientific career will be honored.

The symposium will take place from 3 to 5 p.m. in lecture hall H, building J1. Registration is not required. Afterwards, there will be a small reception with sparkling wine and snacks.

September 2024

We congratulatePD Dr. Johannes Belleron his habilitation in Medical Sociology and look forward to his continued active participation in the Department's research and teaching activities!

 

In September, all eight members of the project team "Morbidity development over time" attended the joint congress of our professional society DGMS, DG Epi, DGSMP and DGPH in Dresden and gave three poster presentations and five lectures.

 

June 2024

Since June 2024, PD Dr. Stefanie Sperlich has taken on the role of Deputy Head of Medical Sociology. She is also responsible for issues relating to the organization of teaching in the Department.

 

May 2024

Dr. Dr. Johannes Beller is now a member of the editorial board of the renowned journal Scientific Reports. We congratulate him on this recognition of his research work and his commitment to the scientific community.

 

April 2024

Our former employee Dr. Fabian Tetzlaff has conducted an elaborate analysis of the underlying causes of death of regional social inequality in life expectancy in Germany, which has been published in the Lancet Public Health. Congratulations on this success!

 

March 2024

On March 20 and 21, 2024, this year's workshop of the Working Group on the Collection and Use of Secondary Data (AGENS) took place in Hanover. With 22 presentations, an exciting keynote speech by Prof. Siegfried Geyer and a discussion contribution by Dr. Steffen Heß from the FDZ Gesundheit as well as extensive breaks for networking and exchange, almost 100 participants spent two wonderful days in Hanover.

 

January 2024

We welcome our new project team member Susanne Steffens to the research project "Rethinking morbidity compression". A warm welcome!

 

December 2023

Lotte Mond started her work in the new DFG-funded research project"Occurrence of mental illness in existing type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease". We are very excited about the results! The project is scheduled to run for three years.

 

October 2023

The DFG has approved the research proposal by PD Dr. Stefanie Sperlich entitled"Development of subjective health against the background of the increase in higher school-leaving qualifications - A gender- and age-group-differentiated analysis of structural, psychosocial and behavioral influencing factors from 1994 to 2019". We are very pleased about this and would like to congratulate Ms. Sperlich!

From October 9 to 11, 2023, Batoul Safieddine will attend the congress of the Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies in Munich. She will present her findings on health inequalities in comorbidities in diabetes over time.

 

September 2023

On September 28, 2023, Stefanie Sperlich will give a presentation to the expert commission of the family report on "Health promotion and prevention approaches for single parents" as part of the hearing on the 10th family report in Berlin.

From September 26 to 28, 2023, Juliane Tetzlaff and Jelena Epping will travel to the annual congress of the German Society for Epidemiology to Würzburg and will present substantive findings on healthy working lives as well as data methodological considerations on indicators of health inequality.

From September 20 to 22, several members of the Medical Sociology department will be attending the annual congress of the German Society for Medical Sociology in Giessen, which is being held jointly with the German Society for Medical Psychology. The title of this year's congress is"Moving times: Lifeworlds in Transition".

The workshop of the Health, Morbidity, and Mortality Working Group of the European Association for Population Studies is taking place at the same time as the congress in Giessen. Juliane Tetzlaff will represent us there and present her findings on the development of working life free of musculoskeletal disorders.

As part of the symposium "Single-parent families in Bremen - new perspectives on familiar topics" organized by the Network of Single Parents in Bremen, Stefanie Sperlich gave a keynote speech on 6 September 2023 on the topic "Diversity of life situations of single parents - What does this mean for practice?".

 

August 2023

Prof. Dr. Dr. Siegfried Geyer presented a poster on the course of the study and the results to date in the project "Return to everyday life after breast cancer", which is currently being funded by the German Cancer Aid Foundation, at the Lower Saxony Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCC-N) symposium on healthcare research on 30 August 2023.

 

June 2023

On June 20, the Müttergenesungswerk invited representatives of the 72 mother/father/child prevention and rehabilitation clinics in the network to the Clinical Department Conference in Berlin. As part of a World Café, Claudia Kirsch was asked to give a keynote speech on family measures in the setting of inpatient mother/father-child preventive measures. The results presented in the lecture were then discussed in detail by the participants at a themed table

 

On June 15, Claudia Kirsch gave a 1.5-hour online presentation entitled "We're not going on vacation here" - On the effectiveness of inpatient mother/father-child measures for the members' meeting of the Working Group on Women and Family Health/Maternal Recovery. In particular, she presented the results of the RessQu study on the resources and health-related quality of life of mothers, fathers and their children and discussed these at length with the 20 or so participants.

 

May 2023

  • We welcome two new members of staff, Julia Graßhoff and Dr. Julia Habermann, and wish them every success and lots of fun in their new roles.
  • PD Dr. Stefanie Sperlich, Prof. Dr. Siegfried Geyer and Batoul Safieddine will be speaking at the DGMS satellite event 'Aging in transition - sick later and healthy longer?' at the German Congress for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy from 3 to 5 May 2023 in Berlin. In this satellite event organized by the Medical Sociology Department of the MHH, the empirical evidence of the different future scenarios of morbidity development over time will be reviewed and the topic of 'Aging in Transition' will be examined from a medical sociological perspective.

 

Future Day 2023

On Future Day, April 27, 2023, two Year 5 pupils gained an exciting insight into the profession of a scientist in the Department of Medical Sociology. Under the supervision of Dr. Johannes Beller, they learned about the basic principles of science, university teaching and statistical data analysis with R. They found out why sitting for long periods of time is not good for your health and in which European country young people sit the most (the Czech Republic). They and we had a lot of fun discovering the world of medical sociology. We look forward to the next Future Day!

 

Doctoral prize!

Our former employee and PhD student in Medical Sociology Dr. Fabian Tetzlaff was awarded a doctoral prize at the annual conference of the German Society for Demography. The topic of his doctorate was "Live longer, fall ill later? Morbidity and mortality trends in lung cancer in the context of increased life expectancy". We are very proud of our colleague and congratulate him warmly!

 

MHH runs and Medical Sociology runs with it!

Under the motto "MHH-K23 runs!" , employees from the School for Speech Therapy, the Clinical Department of Phoniatrics and Pediatric Audiology and the Medical Sociology Department took part in the MHH relay race at the Hannover Marathon 2023 on Sunday, March 26, 2023. It was a great experience!

 

March 2023

 

February 2023

  • Claudia Kirsch, Monique Förster and Dr. Dorothee Noeres are represented with contributions at this year's 32nd Rehab Colloquium. Prof. Dr. Dr. Siegfried Geyer will give a plenary lecture there on 22 February.
  • Batoul Safieddine presents her ePoster at the ATTD Congress in Berlin (Advanced Technologies & Treatments for Diabetes).

 

January 2023

The DFG approved Dr. Jelena Epping's research proposal entitled"Incidence of mental illness in existing type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease: Health inequalities and identification of vulnerable groups in health insurance data in time trends between 2005 and 2019" has been approved. We are very pleased about this and congratulate Ms. Epping!

 

September 2022

Congress month: In September, we gave presentations at the congresses of the German Society for Medical Sociology in Magdeburg, the German Society for Psychology in Hildesheim and the German Society for Epidemiology in Greifswald , and Dr. Juliane Tetzlaff and Dr. Jelena Epping were in Prague at the end of September for the working meeting of the Health, Morbidity and Mortality Working Group of the European Association for Population Studies.

July 2022

We congratulate Dr. Johannes Beller on receiving funding from the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture for the research project "Modern Work - Healthy Work? Change in work-related physical activity as an explanatory factor of physical and mental morbidity development", which fits perfectly into the overall research project of Medical Sociology "Morbidity compression and its alternatives".

June 2022

We warmly welcome our new colleagues Lotte Mond and Dr. Johanna Schneider, who now strengthen the team of the research project "Morbidity compression and its alternatives" in the field of drug analyses over time.

December 2021

Our employee Fabian Tetzlaff leaves our project team and moves to Berlin to fulfill new professional challenges. We were very happy to have Fabian with us and wish him all the best for his future career! We will certainly see you at one or the other congress or AGENS workshop.


November 2021

We are proud and happy to announce that the German Research Foundation has agreed to fund our research project "Rethinking morbidity compression and morbidity expansion: differential morbidity development and social inequalities in health impairments and chronic diseases". This enables the project team to work on the research topic in greater depth and present new differential results, e.g. by age group.

September 2021

Several employees took part in congresses of the German Society for Medical Sociology and the German Society for Epidemiology. Exciting discussions also took place online.

December 2020

We welcome our new employee Monique Förster in the Family Health Research Network and our new employee Fabian Tetzlaff in the research project "Working life from a health perspective"! A warm welcome!

At the same time we say goodbye to Sabine de Wall, whom we wish all the best on her further scientific path!

October 2020

On October 1 and 2, 2020, the Family Health Research Network held the VII Scientific Symposium on the topic "Family tomorrow - what do we need to do today? - Mother/father-child measures in the context of demographic & family change". It was a complete success! Find out more here.

September 2020

We are happy for our colleague Johannes Beller, who passed his doctoral examination with "summa cum laude"! Dr. rer. nat. Johannes Beller, good luck for the future!

September 2020

Several employees took part in online congresses of the DGMS and DG Epi professional societies and gave presentations. This was a new experience, which on the whole was technically well implemented. The in-depth discussions that usually take place during coffee breaks could be continued through active appointments for subsequent online discussions with interested colleagues.

July 2020

The German Research Foundation has approved Dr. Juliane Tetzlaff's project application. The three-year project is entitled "Working life from a health perspective". We congratulate our colleague and look forward to continuing our collaboration.

June 2020

The Federal Ministry of Education and Research has approved funding for the research project "OnCoVID - Management in Oncology during the COVID-19 pandemic". From July 1, 2020, members of the Research and Teaching Unit Medical Sociology will be involved in the implementation of the project. Project period July 2020 - December 2021. Further information can be obtained from Prof. Dr. Dr. Jörg Haier, LL.M., Managing Director of the CCC Hannover.

February 2020

On March 13, 2020 from 17.00-18.30, PD Dr. Sperlich will give a lecture as part of the public lecture series at the Jade University of Applied Sciences Oldenburg on the topic: "The development of morbidity against the background of educational expansion - on the way to a health society?". Find out more here.

 

From March 10 to 11, 2020, Batoul Safieddine and Jelena Epping were scheduled to present the results of their analysis of the prevalence comparison between DEGS and AOK data at this year's AGENS methodology workshop in Cologne. This workshop will be held in the form of webinars in October 2020.

 

January 2020

At the end of January, a methods workshop with colleagues from the RKI and the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (Rostock) took place in Berlin. We discussed methodological issues in detail and look forward to further opportunities for in-depth exchange in the future.

 

November 2019

On December 6, 2019, the inaugural lecture of our colleague Privatdozentin Dr. rer. biol. hum. Stefanie Sperlich on the topic "Morbidity compression and educational expansion: does the trend towards higher school-leaving qualifications also lead to better health?" took place. We congratulate our colleague on successfully completing her habilitation.

 

September 2019

 

At the beginning of September, the workshop of the Working Group "Health, Morbidity and Mortality" of the European Association of Population Studies took place in Hanover. Over three days, 25 participants intensively discussed current trends in the analysis of morbidity and mortality and exchanged views on methodological and content-related aspects.

This year, members of the Medical Sociology department are represented at two congresses: Juliane Tetzlaff and Jelena Epping are traveling to the 14th annual congress of the DG Epi, while Stefanie Sperlich, Johannes Beller and Siegfried Geyer are actively involved in this year's congress of the German Society for Medical Sociology in Düsseldorf.

 

August 2019

 

From August 13 to 22, 2019, Juliane Tetzlaff, Jelena Epping and Johannes Beller led a working group at this year's German National Academic Foundation Summer Academy on the topic of "Morbidity compression and its alternatives: How healthy will we grow old?". With 13 highly motivated and committed scholarship holders, the lecturers were able to spend seven intensive workshop days discussing such topics as

 

  • Am I ill or do I just feel that way?
  • How long will we live?
  • How long can we work? How long do we have to work? or
  • Can we afford our health?

were discussed, to name but a few. After each workshop day, students had the opportunity to record their thoughts and open questions in an essay. This resulted in a collection of essays which, after consultation with the authors, will be made available here for interested visitors to download. This collection of essays supports the project team in developing new approaches for the further development of the research project. We are grateful for the enriching time we spent together in Leysin.

 

January 2019

 

Medical Sociology is organizing the annual meeting of the EAPS Working Group on Health, Morbidity and Mortality in September 2019. The meeting will take place from September 4 to 6, 2019 at the Hannover Medical School. Further information including registration modalities can be found here.

 

The archive contains older reports from our Department from 2012 - 2018.