PD Dr. Jelena Epping
Head of the Department of Medical Sociology
PD Dr. Public Health, Dipl. Social Science,
Bachelor of Economics and Business Administration
Phone: (0511) 532 - 9389
Fax: (0511) 532 - 4214
Qualifications
- 1998 Bachelor of Economics and Business Administration(Stockholm School of Economics in Riga)
- 2008 Diploma in Social Sciences (Leibniz University Hannover with focus on empirical social research and work and organizational psychology)
- 2018 Doctorate in Public Health (with "summa cum laude") on the topic "Social gradient in psychotherapy? Secondary data analysis of the utilization of psychotherapeutic treatments subject to application with data from the AOK Lower Saxony"
- 2023 Habilitation in medical sociology (topic: The utilization of health insurance data for public health research)
Professional career
- 2008 - 2011 - Leibniz University Hannover - Lecturer in statistics and methods of empirical social research as well as in the module key competencies
- 2011 - 2023 - Hannover Medical School - Lecturer in medical sociology and research assistant in research projects "Evaluation of mother-child cures", "Morbidity compression and its alternatives", "OnCoVID - Management in oncology", "How long can we work? The development of working life from a health perspective"
- 2019 - 2024 Deputy Head of the Department of Medical Sociology
- since February 2023 Project manager of the DFG-funded research project "Occurrence of mental illness in existing type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease: Health inequalities and identification of vulnerable groups in health insurance data in the time trend between 2005 and 2019" (PsyDiaKHK)
- Head of the Research and Teaching Unit Medical Sociology since May 2024
Main areas of work
- Utilization of billing data from statutory health insurance companies for public health research
- Secondary data analysis, evaluation of very large data sets
- Social inequalities in the utilization of health services
- Didactics of empirical social research methods
- Data preparation for very large data sets
Funding and further training
- January-July 2022 - Funding through the Ellen-Schmidt habilitation program for female scientists (MHH)
- February 2021-June 2022 - Participation in the "Active in Teaching" program (MHH and KHN)
- November 2019-June 2021 - Participation in the Ina-Pilchmayr mentoring program for young female scientists (MHH)
- 2019 - Funding through the University's internal performance promotion program (MHH)
Teaching
- Model study program Medicine: Psychological and sociological foundations of medicine (2nd year)
- Model study program Medicine: Small groups as part of the propaedeuticum (1st year of study)
- Master's program Public Health: Methods of empirical social research in practical application and SPSS exercises
Memberships
- Since 2023 - Elected member of the Senate Commission "Academic Career Development" at the MHH
- Since 2022 - Appointed member of the expert committee at federal level "Validation of social data transmitted by the health insurance funds - DVSozDat" at IQTIG
- Competence Center for Gender-Sensitive Medicine (MHH)
- Selection committee for the DFG-funded Clinical Scientist Program PRACTIS (MHH)
- Working group for the collection and use of secondary data(AGENS)
- German Society for Medical Sociology
- German Society for Epidemiology
Epping J, Müller A, Mond L, de Zwaan M. Prevalence of Depression 3 Years before and 3 Years after Obesity Surgery: Sex-Stratified Case-Control Study Using German Health Insurance Claims Data between 2009 and 2015. Obesity Facts, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1159/000543407
Mond L, de Zwaan M, Safieddine B, Kahl KG, Stahmeyer JT, Epping J. Incidence of depression in patients with chronic cardiovascular diseases: Case-control study with German health insurance claims data. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 2025, 191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2025.112066
Mond L, Geyer S, Tetzlaff J, Weißenborn K, Schneider J, Epping J. More Drugs and Fewer Strokes? Time Trends in CVD Medication and Incidence of Stroke With German Health Insurance Data. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2025;34(1):e70077. https://doi.org/10.1002/pds.70077
Safieddine B, Grasshoff J, Sperlich S, Epping J, Geyer S, Beller J. Type 2 diabetes severity in the workforce: An occupational sector analysis using German claims data. PLoS ONE, 2024, 19(9): e0309725. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0309725
Beller J, Sperlich S, Epping J, Tetzlaff J. Trends in severe functional limitations among working and non-working adults in Germany: Towards an (un)-healthy working life?. Eur J Ageing, 2024, 21:13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-024-00809-x
Beller J, Sperlich S, Epping J, Safieddine B, Hegewald J, Tetzlaff J. Sociodemographic differences in low back pain: which subgroups of workers are most vulnerable? BMC Musculoskelet Disord. 2024;25(1):852. doi:10.1186/s12891-024-07970-5
Mond L, Hegewald J, Liebers F, Epping J, Beller J, Sperlich S, Stahmeyer JT, Tetzlaff J. The relationship between physical and psychosocial workplace exposures and life expectancy free of musculoskeletal and cardiovascular disease in working life - an analysis based on German health insurance data. BMC Public Health. 2024;24(1):2198. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-19721-1
Benzinger L, Epping J, Ursin F, Salloch S. Artificial Intelligence to support ethical decision-making for incapacitated patients: a survey among German anesthesiologists and internists. BMC Medical Ethics. 2024;25(1):78. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-024-01079-z
Tetzlaff J, Epping J, Stahmeyer JT, Liebers F, Hegewald J, Sperlich S, Beller J, Tetzlaff F (2024). The development of working life expectancy without musculoskeletal diseases against the backdrop of extended working lives. Scientific Reports. 2024;14(1):7930. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-58650-2
Tetzlaff J, Epping J. Healthier at work for longer? Trends in years free of cardiovascular and musculoskeletal diseases in SHI data for the employed and general population. Federal Health Gazette - Health Research - Health Protection. 2024;67(5):555-63. doi. org/10.1007/s00103-024-03868-8
Epping J, Tetzlaff F, Mond L, Tetzlaff J. Healthy enough to work up to age 67 and beyond? A longitudinal population-based study on time trends in working life expectancy free of cardiovascular diseases based on German health insurance data. BMJ Public Health. 2024;2(1):e000400. doi. org/10.1136/bmjph-2023-000400
Safieddine B, Trachte F, Sperlich S, Epping J, Lange K, Geyer S. Trends of Antidiabetic and Cardiovascular Diseases Medication Prescriptions in Type 2 Diabetes between 2005 and 2017 - A German Longitudinal Study Based on Claims Data. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2023;20(5):4491. doi. org/10.3390/ijerph20054491
Beller J, Epping J, Sperlich S, Tetzlaff J. Changes in disability over time among older working-age adults: Which global and specific limitations are increasing in Germany using the SHARE-data from 2004 to 2015? SAGE Open Med. 2023;11: https://doi.org/10.1177/20503121231184012
Sperlich S, Beller J, Epping J, Geyer S, Tetzlaff J. Trends of healthy and unhealthy working life expectancy in Germany between 2001 and 2020 at ages 50 and 60: a question of educational level? Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 2023;77(7):430. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2023-220345
Epping J*, Stahmeyer JT*, Tetzlaff F, Tetzlaff J: M2Q or something else? The influence of different ascertainment criteria on the prevalence estimation of chronic diseases with outpatient SHI diagnosis data. [M2Q or Something else? The Impact of Varying Case Selection Criteria on the Prevalence Estimation of Chronic Diseases Based on Outpatient Diagnoses in German Claims Data]. Health Services 2023;85:1-8. DOI: 10.1055/a-2052-6477 *-shared first authorship
Tetzlaff F, Nowossadeck E, Epping J, di Lego V, Muszynska-Spielauer M, Beller J, Sperlich S, Tetzlaff J (2023). Trends in cancer-free working life expectancy based on health insurance data from Germany-Is the increase as strong as in working life expectancy? PloS one. 2023;18(7):e0288210. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0288210
Hollstein MM, Schober A, Treudler R, Becker S, Epping J, Hamelmann E, et al. Current situation of allergological health care at German hospitals. JDDG: Journal of the German Dermatological Society. 2023:1-8. doi. org/10.1111/ddg.15123
Geyer S, Tetzlaff J, Sperlich S, Safieddine B, Epping J, Eberhard S, Stahmeyer J, Beller J (2023). Decreasing COPD-related incidences and hospital admissions in a German health insurance population. Scientific Reports. 2023;13(1):21293. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-48554-y
Schober AK, Hollstein MM, Treudler R, Becker S, Epping J, Hamelmann E, Taube C, Wagenmann M, Wedi B, Worm M, Zink A, Buhl T, Werfel T, Traidl S (2023). Limited Reimbursement and Underuse of Digital Healthcare Concepts Are Major Barriers to Clinical Allergological Care in Germany. International Archives of Allergy and Immunology,184 (6): 598-608. doi. org/10.1159/000529708
Tetzlaff J, Luy M, Epping J, Geyer S, Beller J, Stahmeyer J T, Sperlich S, Tetzlaff F (2022). Estimating Trends in Working Life Expectancy based on Health Insurance Data from Germany - Challenges and Advantages. SSM - Population Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101215
Tetzlaff F, Hoebel J, Epping J, Geyer S, Golpon H, Tetzlaff J (2022). Time Trends and Income Inequalities in Cancer Incidence and Cancer-Free Life Expectancy - a Cancer Site-Specific Analysis of German Health Insurance Data. Frontiers in Oncology, 12:827028. doi. org/10.3389/fonc.2022.827028
Beller J, Schäfers J, Geyer S, Haier J, Epping J (2022). Patterns of Changes in Oncological Care due to COVID-19: Results of a Survey of Oncological Nurses and Physicians from the Region of Hanover, Germany. Healthcare, 10(1), 15; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10010015
Heller C, Sperlich S, Tetzlaff F, Geyer S, Epping J, Beller J, Tetzlaff J (2022). Living longer, working longer: analyzing time trends in working life expectancy in Germany from a health perspective between 2002 and 2018. European Journal of Ageing. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-022-00707-0
Tübbecke F-M, Epping J, Safieddine B, Sperlich S. Development of gender inequality in self-rated health in the life-phase of raising children in Germany from 1994 to 2018 - A decomposition analysis of socioeconomic, psychosocial and family-related influencing factors. SSM - Population Health. 2022;19:101183. doi. org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101183
Beller J, Geyer S, Epping J (2022). Health and Study Dropout: Health Aspects Differentially Predict Attrition. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 22:31. doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-022-01508-w
Beller J, Schäfers J, Haier J, Geyer S, Epping J (2022). Trust in Healthcare during COVID-19 in Europe: vulnerable groups trust the least. J Public Health (Berl.). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10389-022-01705-3
Tetzlaff J, Tetzlaff F, Geyer S, Sperlich S, Epping J (2021). Widening or narrowing income inequalities in myocardial infarction? Time trends in life years free of myocardial infarction and after incidence. Population Health Metrics, 19:47.
Epping J*, Safieddine B*, Geyer S, Tetzlaff J (2021). Are prevalences in survey and routine data comparable? Prevalence of myocardial infarction in health insurance data from the AOK Lower Saxony and in data from the German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Adults (DEGS1). Healthcare, doi: 10.1055/a-1649-7575. *-shared first authorship
Safieddine B, Sperlich S, Epping J, Lange K, Geyer S (2021). Development of comorbidities in type 2 diabetes between 2005 and 2017 using German claims data. Scientific Reports, 11(1). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-90611-x.
Epping J, Geyer S, Eberhard S, Tetzlaff J (2021). Completely different or quite similar? The sociodemographic structure of the AOK Lower Saxony compared to the general and working population in Lower Saxony and Germany. Health Care; 83, 2nd Suppl, S77-86. DOI: 10.1055/a-1553-3565
Tetzlaff J, Geyer S, Westhoff-Bleck M, Sperlich S, Epping J, Tetzlaff F (2021). Social inequalities in mild and severe myocardial infarction: how large is the gap in health expectancies? Bmc Public Health, 21st link.
Tetzlaff F, Epping J, Tetzlaff J, Golpon H, Geyer S (2021). Socioeconomic inequalities in lung cancer - a time trend analysis with German health insurance data. Bmc Public Health, 21st link
Sperlich S, Beller J, Epping J, Safieddine B, Tetzlaff J, Geyer S (2021). Are Disability Rates among People with Diabetes Increasing in Germany? A Decomposition Analysis of Temporal Change between 2004 and 2015. Journal of Aging and Health, 33(3-4):205-216. doi: 10.1177/0898264320970324
Beller J, Epping J (2021). Disability trends in Europe by age-period-cohort analysis: Increasing disability in younger cohorts. Disability and Health Journal, 14:1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dhjo.2020.100948
Weidemann F, Decker S, Epping J, Örgel M, Krettek C, Kühn C, Wilhelmi M (2021). Analysis of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in trauma patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome: A case series. The International Journal of Artificial Organs, DOI: 10.1177/0391398820980736
Tetzlaff F, Epping J, Golpon H, Tetzlaff J (2020). Compression, expansion, or maybe both? Growing inequalities in lung cancer in Germany. Plos One, 15
Melk A, Schmidt B M W, Geyer S, Epping J (2020) Sex disparities in dialysis initiation, access to waitlist, transplantation and transplant outcome in German patients with renal disease-A population based analysis. Plos One, 15(11). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0241556
Epping J, Geyer S, Tetzlaff J (2020). The effects of different lookback periods on the sociodemographic structure of the study population and on the estimation of incidence rates: analyses with German claims data. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 20(1). Link
Tetzlaff F, Epping J, Sperlich S, Tetzlaff J. (2020). Widening income inequalities in life expectancy? Analyzing time trends based on German health insurance data. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 74:592-597, doi:10.1136/jech-2019-212966
Safieddine B, Sperlich S, Beller J, Lange K, Epping J, Tetzlaff J, Tetzlaff F, Geyer S (2020). Socioeconomic inequalities in type 2 diabetes in employed individuals, nonworking spouses and pensioners. SSM-Population Health, 100596. DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckaa165.1044
Tetzlaff J, Geyer S, Tetzlaff F, Epping J (2020). Income inequalities in stroke incidence and mortality: Trends in stroke-free and stroke-affected life years based on German health insurance data. PloS One, 15(1):e0227541.
Sperlich S, Beller J, Epping J, Tetzlaff J, Geyer S (2020). Trends in self-rated health among the elderly population in Germany from 1995 to 2015 - the influence of temporal change in leisure time physical activity. BMC public health, 20(1):113.
Memaran N, Schwalba M, Borchert-Mörlichs B, von der Born J, Markefke S, Bauer E, von Wick A, Epping J, von Maltzahn N, Heyn-Schmidt I, Grams L, Homeyer D, Kerling A, Stiesch M, Tegtbur U, Haverich A, Melk A (2020) Health and fitness of German schoolchildren. Overweight and obesity are significantly associated with cardiovascular risk factors. [Health and fitness of German schoolchildren. Overweight and obesity are significantly associated with cardiovascular risk factors]. Monatsschrift Kinderheilkunde, 168(7):597-607.
Geyer S, Tetzlaff J, Eberhard S, Sperlich S, Epping J (2019). Health inequalities in terms of myocardial infarction and all-cause mortality: a study with German claims data covering 2006 to 2015. International Journal of Public Health, 64(3):387-97.
Beller, J, Miething, A, Regidor, E, Lostao, L, Epping, J, & Geyer, S (2019). Trends in grip strength: Age, period, and cohort effects on grip strength in older adults from Germany, Sweden, and Spain. Social Science & Medicine: Population Health, 9. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2019.100456
Blöte, R, Memaran, N., Bianca, B.-M., Thurn-Valsassina, D, Goldschmidt, I, Beier, R, Sauer, M, Müller, C, Sarganas, G, Oh, J, Büscher, R, Kemper, M J, Sugianto, R I, Epping, J, Schmidt, B M W, Melk, A (2019). Greater Susceptibility for Metabolic Syndrome in Pediatric Solid Organ and Stem Cell Transplant Recipients. Transplantation, 103(11):2423-2433.doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000002675
Melk A, Babitsch B, Borchert-Morlins B, Claas F, Dipchand A I, Eifert S, Eiz-Vesper B, Epping J, Falk C S, Foster B, Geyer S, Gjertson D, Greer M, Haubitz M, Lau A, Maecker-Kolhoff B, Memaran N, Messner H A, Ostendorf K, Samuel U, Schmidt B M W, Tullius S G, West L, Wong G, Zimmermann T, Berenguer M (2019). Equally Interchangeable? How Sex and Gender Affect Transplantation. Transplantation, 103(6), 1094-1110. doi:10.1097/tp.0000000000002655
Stahmeyer J T, Geyer S, Epping J, Tetzlaff J, Eberhard S. (2018). Health expenditure trends and the influence of demographic change. An analysis of statutory health insurance data. Bundesgesundheitsblatt, 61 (4), 432-441. doi.org/10.1007/s00103-018-2713-3
Tetzlaff J, Epping J, Sperlich S, Eberhard S, Stahmeyer J T, Geyer S. (2018). Widening inequalities in multimorbidity? Time trends among the working population between 2005 and 2015 based on German health insurance data. International Journal for Equity in Health, 17, 103. DOI 10.1186/s12939-018-0815-z
Geyer S, Eberhard S, Schmidt BMW, Epping J, Tetzlaff J (2018). Morbidity compression in myocardial infarction 2006 to 2015 in terms of changing rates and age at occurrence: A longitudinal study using claims data from Germany. PloS One, 13(8):e0202631.
Memaran N, Kirchner M, Blote R, Maecker-Kolhoff B, Goldschmidt I, Muller C, Epping J, Sugianto R, Borchert B, Schmidt B, Wuhl E, Melk A (2018). High Prevalence of Hypertension and Alterations in Rhythmicity in Recipients of Pediatric Transplants. American Journal of Transplantation 18:728-728.
Schmidt B, Epping J, Falk C, Geyer S, Melk A (2018). Gender Disparities in Need for Dialysis, Access to the Renal Transplant Waitlist and Renal Transplant Survival. American Journal of Transplantation, 18:589-589.
Epping J, de Zwaan M, Geyer S (2017). Healthier after psychotherapy? Secondary data analysis of incapacity for work before and after outpatient behavioral therapy, depth psychology-based and analytical psychotherapy. Psychotherapy - Psychosomatics - Medical Psychology, 68(08, 337-345. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0043-120346
Epping J, Muschik D, Geyer S (2017). Social inequalities in the utilization of outpatient psychotherapy: analyses of registry data from German statutory health insurance. International Journal for Equity in Health, 16:147. link
Barre F, Epping J (2017). Changes in the utilization of health insurance benefits before and after a father-child intervention. Gesundheitswesen, http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0043-104214.
Tetzlaff J, Muschik D, Epping J, Eberhard S, Geyer S. (2017). Expansion or compression of multimorbidity? 10-year development of life years spent in multimorbidity based on health insurance claims data of Lower Saxony, Germany. International Journal of Public Health. DOI 10.1007/s00038-017-0962-9
Muschik D, Tetzlaff J, Lange K, Epping J, Eberhard S, Geyer S. (2017). Change in life expectancy with type 2 diabetes: a study using claims data from Lower Saxony, Germany. Population Health Metrics, 15:5. DOI 10.1186/s12963-017-0124-6
Bachus L, Eberhard S, Weißenborn K, Muschik D, Epping J, Geyer S (2017). Morbidity compression in stroke? Longitudinal analyses on changes in the incidence of stroke [Morbidity compression and stroke? Longitudinal analyses on changes in the incidence of stroke]. Health Services. DOI https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0043-109860.
Tetzlaff J, Junius-Walker U, Muschik D, Epping J, Eberhard S, Geyer S (2016). Identifying time trends in multimorbidity-defining multimorbidity in times of changing diagnostic practices. Journal of Public Health. DOI 10.1007/s10389-016-0771-2
Muschik D, Icks A, Tetzlaff J, Epping J, Eberhard S, Geyer S (2016). Morbidity compression, morbidity expansion, or dynamicequilibrium? The time trend of AOK-insured patients with type 2 diabetes in Lower Saxony, Germany. J Public Health. DOI 10.1007/s10389-016-0756-1
Before 2016 as Jelena Jaunzeme
Muschik D, Jaunzeme J, Geyer S (2015). Are spouses'socio-economic classifications interchangeable? Examining the consequences of a commonly used practice in studies on social inequalities in health. International Journal of Public Health 60:953-960. doi:10.1007/s00038-015-0744-1
Swart E, Gothe H, Geyer S, Jaunzeme J, Maier B, Grobe T G , Ihle P (2015). Good Practice Secondary Data Analysis (GPS): Guidelines and Recommendations. 3rd version; version 2012/2014. Public Health, 77(02): 120-126
Jaunzeme J, Marx Y, Swart E, Geyer S (2014). Health surveys and aggregate data, in Swart, E., Ihle, P., Matusiewicz, D. (eds.). Routine Data in Health Care: Handbook of Secondary Data Analysis: Principles, Methods and Perspectives, 2nd, fully revised and expanded ed. Bern: Huber. S. 214-222.
Geyer S, Jaunzeme J (2014). Possibilities and limitations of survey data and statutory health insurance data, in Swart, E., Ihle, P., Matusiewicz, D. (eds.). Routine Data in Health Care: Handbook of Secondary Data Analysis: Principles, Methods and Perspectives, 2nd, fully revised and expanded ed. Bern: Huber. S. 223-232.
Geyer S, Jaunzeme J, Hillemanns P (2014). Cervical cancer screening in Germany: group-specific participation rates in the state of Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony). A study with health insurance data, Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics, DOI: 10.1007/s00404-014-3421-3.
Jaunzeme J, Otto F, Geyer S (2014). Healthier after the cure? Analysis of SHI data with before-and-after comparison for participants in a mother-child program and mothers without spa approval. Practice of Clinical Behavioral Medicine and Rehabilitation, 93, 41-49.
Noeres D, Park-Simon TW, Grabow J, Sperlich S, Koch-Gießelmann H, Jaunzeme J, Geyer S (2013). Return to work after treatment for primary breast cancer over a six-year period: Results from a prospective study comparing patients with the general population. Supportive Care in Cancer, 21 (7): 1901-1909. dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00520-013-1739-1
Jaunzeme J, Eberhard S, Geyer S (2013). How "representative" are SHI data? Demographic and social differences and similarities between a SHI insured population, the population of Lower Saxony and the Federal Republic of Germany using the example of the AOK Lower Saxony. Federal Health Journal, 56:447 - 454
Otto F, Jaunzeme J (2013). Prescription of psychotherapy and psychotropic drugs before and after a mother-child measure - analysis of data from a statutory health insurance fund from 2004-2010. German Pension Insurance (ed.), 22nd Rehabilitation Science Colloquium. DRV Papers Vol. 101: 203-205.
Jaunzeme J, Otto F (2013). Incapacity for work data as an indicator of success for rehabilitation measures? Analysis of SHI routine data of employed participants of a mother-child measure in the period 2004-2010. German Pension Insurance (ed.), 22nd Rehabilitation Science Colloquium. DRV publications vol. 101: 115-116.
Wacker A, Jaunzeme J, Jaksztat S (2008). A short form of the Test Anxiety Inventory TAI-G. Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 73-81.
Tetzlaff J, Epping J (2023). Working longer in good musculoskeletal health? Time trends and income inequalities in life years free of musculoskeletal diseases among the working-age population. 18th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Epidemiology, Würzburg, September 26-28, 2023.
Epping J, Tetzlaff J, Tetzlaff F. Healthy Enough to Work? Working Life Expectancy without Cardiovascular Diseases between 2005 and 2019 Based on Health Insurance Data from Germany. Health, Morbidity and Mortality Working Group. European Association of Population Studies. Prague, September 29-30, 2022
Epping J. Which heart patients are affected by frequent switches between the outpatient and inpatient sectors? Analysis of the care of chronic heart disease with billing data from the AOK Lower Saxony. Annual Congress of the German Society for Epidemiology. Greifwald, September 26-28, 2022
Epping J. Can tumor severity be determined from health insurance data? Comparison of severity grades according to the BURDEN 2020 methodology for TNM staging of cancer. Workshop of the Working Group Collection and Use of Secondary Data. Virtual, February 24-25, 2022.
Epping J, Tetzlaff J, Geyer S (2019). Morbidity compression and its alternatives. Development of morbidity over time using the example of specific diseases using health insurance data. 14th Annual Congress of the German Society for Epidemiology, Ulm, September 11-13, 2019
Epping J, Tetzlaff J, Stubenrauch S, Geyer S (2019). Does the duration of prior observation influence incidence estimation and time trends in myocardial infarction, stroke and lung cancer? AGENS Methods Workshop 2019 in Magdeburg, February 27-28, 2019.
Epping J. Lookback Periods. Do incidence rates and hazard ratios for myocardial infarction, stroke and lung cancer change when we look back 1, 3 or 5 years? Workshop of the Working Group Collection and Use of Secondary Data. Magdeburg, February 27-28, 2019.
Epping J (2018). Does social status influence the likelihood of re-infarction? Longitudinal data analysis with SHI data for the period 2005-2016. Joint Congress of the German Society for Medical Psychology and the German Society for Medical Sociology in Leipzig, September 26-28, 2018.
Epping J, Tetzlaff J, Geyer S. (2017). Do higher-earning men have higher chances of receiving a donor kidney? Gender differences and income differences in transplantation. Joint Congress of the German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention, the German Society for Epidemiology and the German Society for Medical Sociology, Lübeck, September 5-8, 2017
Jaunzeme, J. (2015). Does psychotherapy reduce the duration of sick leave? Secondary data analysis on the utilization and duration of incapacity for work among employed insured persons of the AOK Lower Saxony in the period 2005 to 2013. Joint Congress of the German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention and the German Society for Medical Sociology, Regensburg, September 23-25, 2015
Jaunzeme J, Geyer S (2015). Social gradient in psychotherapy? A secondary data analysis of the utilization of psychotherapy subject to application in the period 2006-2011 with data from the AOK Lower Saxony. 23rd Annual Conference of the German Society for Psychosomatic Medicine and Medical Psychotherapy in Berlin, March 25-28, 2015
Jaunzeme J, Muschik D, Geyer S (2014). Reference date or duration of insurance? Composition of the study population in the analysis of health insurance data using the example of myocardial infarction. Contexts: Joint Congress of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology in Greifswald, September 17-20, 2014.
Jaunzeme J, Muschik D, Geyer S (2014). Social Inequality in Utilization of Outpatient Psychotherapy. 15th biennal congress of the European Society of Health and Medical Sociology in Helsinki, August 28-30, 2014
Jaunzeme J, Muschik D (2014). Reference date or duration of insurance as a selection criterion of insured persons for the analysis of SHI data. AGENS Methods Workshop 2014 in Hanover, February 13 and 14, 2014.
Jaunzeme J (2013). Social gradient in psychotherapy? A secondary data analysis of the utilization of psychotherapy subject to application in the period 2005-2009 with data from the AOK Lower Saxony. 27th Annual Conference of the DGMS in Marburg "Health between Economy and Demography", September 17-20, 2013
Epping J, Tetzlaff J (2023). Does the risk of myocardial infarction depend more on individual or residential characteristics? Comparison of the predictive power between individual SES characteristics and the German Index of Social Deprivation. 18th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Epidemiology, Würzburg, September 26-28, 2023.
Jaunzeme J, Otto F (2013). Incapacity for work data as an indicator of success for rehabilitation measures? Analysis of SHI routine data of employed participants of a mother-child measure in the period 2004-2010. 22nd Rehabilitation Science Colloquium, Mainz.