Publication list Prof. Dr. Siegfried Geyer
2025
Safieddine, B., Geyer, S., Sperlich, S. et al. Factors associated with health-related quality of life in women with paid work at breast cancer diagnosis: a German repeated cross-sectional study over the first five years after primary surgery. BMC Cancer 25, 98 (2025). h ttps://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-025-13491-8
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
2024
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
Safieddine B, Grasshoff J, Geyer S et al. Type 2 diabetes in the employed population: do rates and trends differ among nine occupational sectors? An analysis using German health insurance claims data. BMC Public Health, 2024, 24:1231. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-18705-5
2020
Safieddine B, Sperlich S, Beller J, Lange K, Epping J, Tetzlaff J, Tetzlaff F, Geyer S. Socioeconomic inequalities in type 2 diabetes in employed individuals, nonworking spouses and pensioners. SSM-Population Health, 11. 2020:100596
Geyer S, Eberhard S. Sick later and healthy longer? Morbidity compression and its alternatives. Bern: Hogrefe; 2020.
Tetzlaff J, Geyer S, Tetzlaff F, Epping J. Income inequalities in stroke incidence and mortality: Trends in stroke-free and stroke-affected life years based on German health insurance data. PloS one. 2020;15(1):e0227541.
Sperlich S, Beller J, Epping J, Tetzlaff J, Geyer S. 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. 2020;20(1):113.
2019
Geyer S, Tetzlaff J, Eberhard S, Sperlich S, Epping J. 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. 2019; 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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2019.100456
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
2018
Stahmeyer JT, Geyer S, Epping J, Tetzlaff J, Eberhard S. Expenditure trends in statutory health insurance and the influence of demographic change. Federal Health Gazette-Health Research-Health Protection. 2018;61(4):432-41. 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. Int J Equity Health, 17, 103. DOI 10.1186/s12939-018-0815-z
Geyer S. (2018). Power distribution and power shifts in German hospitals. In G. Duttge (Ed.), The modern hospital: place of "disorganized crime"? (pp. 15-26). Göttingen: Göttingen University Press.
Geyer S. (2018). Social inequality and health/illness: Two lines of research. Public Health Forum 26 (4): 308-311.
Geyer S, Abel T. (2018). Social science data collection In M. Egger, O. Razum, & A. Rieder (Eds.), Public Health Kompakt: Sozial- und Präventivmedizin kompakt (3rd ed., pp. 96-106). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
Geyer S, Eberhard S, Schmidt, B M, 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. doi:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202631
Geyer S, Kowalski C. (2018). Routine data in oncology health services research. Oncology today(1), X70-X72. Retrieved from https://www.krebsgesellschaft.de/zertifizierung/fachartikel.html?file=files/dkg/deutsche-krebsgesellschaft/content/pdf/Publikationen/Teaserartikel/2018/Geyer%2BKowalski_Routinedaten_OH118_final.pdf
Hoffmann R, Kröger H, Geyer S. (2018). Social Causation Versus Health Selection in the Life Course: Does Their Relative Importance Differ by Dimension of SES? Social Indicators Research. doi:10.1007/s11205-018-1871-x
Lostao L, Geyer S, Albaladejo R, Moreno-Lostao A, Ronda E, Regidor E. (2018). Use of health services according to income before and after elimination of copayment in Germany and restriction of universal health coverage in Spain. International Journal for Equity in Health, 17(1). doi:10.1186/s12939-018-0725-0
Micheelis W, Geyer S. (2018). Social inequalities in oral health in Germany. Public Health Forum 26(4): 368-371.
Stahmeyer J T, Geyer S, Epping J, Tetzlaff J, Eberhard S. (2018). Expenditure trends in statutory health insurance and the influence of demographic change. Federal Health Gazette-Health Research-Health Protection, 61(4), 432-441. doi:https://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:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-018-0815-z
2017
Muschik D, Icks A, Tetzlaff J, Epping J, Eberhard S, Geyer S. Morbidity compression, morbidity expansion, or dynamic equilibrium? The time trend of AOK-insured patients with type 2 diabetes in Lower Saxony, Germany. Journal of Public Health. 2017;25(1):19-28.
Muschik D, Tetzlaff J, Lange K, Epping J, Eberhard S, Geyer S. Change in life expectancy with type 2 diabetes: a study using claims data from Lower Saxony, Germany. Population Health Metrics. 2017;15(5).
Tetzlaff J, Muschik D, Epping J, Eberhard S, Geyer S. 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. 2017;62(6):679-86.
Bachus L, Eberhard S, Weißenborn K, Muschik D, Epping J, Geyer S. 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. 2017;DOI https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0043-109860.
Geyer S. Social inequalities in the distribution of health and disease and their explanations. In: Jungbauer-Gans M, Kriwy P, editors. Handbook of health sociology. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden; 2017. p. 1-23.
Epping J, Muschik D, Geyer S. Social inequalities in the utilization of outpatient psychotherapy: analyses of registry data from German statutory health insurance. International Journal for Equity in Health. 2017;16:147.
Katalinic A, Krause G, Geyer S, Moebus S. Researching together - acting together. Editorial for the joint annual conference of the German Society for Epidemiology (DGEpi), the German Society for Medical Sociology (DGMS) and the German Society for Social Epidemiology and Prevention (DGSMP) Das Gesundheitswesen. 2017;79(8/9):592-3.
Epping J, de Zwaan M, Geyer S. Healthier after psychotherapy? Secondary data analysis of incapacity for work before and after outpatient behavioral therapy, depth psychology-based and analytical psychotherapy. PPmP - Psychotherapy - Psychosomatics - Medical Psychology. 2017;DOI https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0043-120346.
Lostao L, Geyer S, Albaladejo R, Moreno-Lostao A, Santos JM, Regidor E. Socioeconomic position and health services use in Germany and Spain during the Great Recession. PLOS ONE. 2017;12(8):e0183325.
Engels B, Geyer J, Haan P. Pension incentives and early retirement. Labor Economics. 2017;47:216-31.
2016
Geyer S, Micheelis W. Social stratification indicators with regard to caries and periodontitis burden in Germany. In: Jordan R, Micheelis W, editors. Fifth German Oral Health Study (DMS V). Cologne: Deutscher Zahnärzte Verlag DÄV; 2016. p. 213-27.
Micheelis W, Geyer S. Prevalences and structures of oral health risk factors in the four age groups. In: Jordan R, Micheelis W, editors. Fifth German Oral Health Study (DMS V). Cologne: Deutscher Zahnärzte Verlag 2016. p. 195-212.
Geyer S. The quantitative analysis of health and disease. In: Richter M, Hurrelmann K, editors. Sociology of Health and Illness. Wiesbaden: Springer VS; 2016. p. 55-70.
Sperlich S, Geyer S. Household and family work and health. In: Siegrist J, Wahrendorf M, editors. Work Stress in a Globalized Economy: The Model of Effort-Reward Imbalance2016. p. 293-311.
Geyer S. Social inequalities in the incidence of chronic diseases. Bundesgesundheitsblatt. 2016;59(2):181-7.
Trachte F, Geyer S, Sperlich S. Impact of physical activity on self-rated health in older people: Do the effects vary by socioeconomic status? Journal of Public Health. 2016;38(4):754-9.
Geyer S. Social inequality and health/illness. Key concepts of health promotion [Internet]. 2016 10.03.2016. Available from: http://www.leitbegriffe.bzga.de/alphabetisches-verzeichnis/soziale-ungleichheit-und-gesundheit-krankheit/?marksuchwort=1.
Geyer S. Morbidity compression: a promising and well-established concept? International Journal of Public Health. 2016;61:727-8.
Geyer S. The reduction of health inequalities: How far can we go, how far should we go, how far can we go? In: Huster S, Schramme T, editors. Normative aspects of public health. Interdisciplinary studies on Legal and State. Baden-Baden: Nomos; 2016. p. 97-112.
Engelmann C, Grote G, Geyer S, Ametowobla D. Operating lists are created by ratioinal algorithms and use of power. What can a social scientific view offer surgeons? Langenbecks Archive of Surgery. 2016.
Tetzlaff J, Junius-Walker U, Muschik D, Epping J, Eberhard S, Geyer S. Identifying time trends in multimorbidity-defining multimorbidity in times of changing diagnostic practices. Journal of Public Health. 2016;25(2):215-22.
Geyer S, Siegrist J. Social science methods in the health sciences. In: Hurrelmann K, Razum O, editors. Handbook of Health Sciences. 6th ed. Weinheim: Beltz; 2016. p. 343-74.
2015
Trachte F, Sperlich S, Geyer S. Compression or expansion of morbidity? Entwicklung der Gesundheit in der älteren Bevölkerung [Compression or expansion of morbidity? The development of health in the elderly population]. Journal of Gerontology and Geriatrics. 2015;48(3):255-62.
Geyer S. The morbidity compression thesis and its alternatives. Health Services. 2015;77:442-6.
Geyer S, Jaunzeme J, Hillemanns P. 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. 2015;291:623-9.
Geyer S, Jaunzeme J. "Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von Befragungsdaten und Daten gesetzlicher Krankenversicherungen," in Routinedaten im Gesundheitswesen, E. Swart et al. (eds.); Huber Verlag, Bern: 223-233.
Sperlich S, Geyer S. The impact of social and family-related factors on women's stress experience in household and family work. International Journal of Public Health. 2015;60(3):375-87.
Engelmann C, Grote G, Miemietz B, Vaske B, Geyer S. Gone away - space gone? Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift. 2015;140(04):e28-e35.
Sperlich S, Geyer S. The mediating effect of effort-reward imbalance in household and family work on the relationship between education and women's health. Social Science & Medicine. 2015;131(0):58-65.
Geyer S, Koch-Gießelmann H, Noeres D. Coping with breast cancer and relapse: Stability of coping and long-term outcomes in an observational study over 10 years. Social Science and Medicine. 2015;135:92-8.
Geyer S. Compression of morbidity. In: Wright JD, editor. International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition). Oxford: Elsevier; 2015. p. 463-8.
Muschik D, Jaunzeme J, Geyer S. Can spouses' socio-economic information be used to determine the risk of type 2 diabetes in their partners? Examining the consequences of a commonly used practice in studies on social inequalities in health. International Journal of Public Health. 2015;60:953-60.
Swart E, Gothe H, Geyer S, Jaunzeme J, Maier B, Grobe TG, et al. Good Practice Secondary Data Analysis (GPS): Guidelines and Recommendations. [Good Practice of Secondary Data Analysis (GPS): guidelines and recommendations]. Health Services. 2015;77(2):120-6.
Jaunzeme J, Marx Y, Swart E, Geyer S. 2015, "Health surveys and aggregate data," In: Routine Data in Health Care, E. Swart et al. (eds.) Huber, Bern: 214-222.
2014
Geyer, S. & Abel, T. "Social science methods of data collection," in Public Health. Social and Preventive Medicine Compact, M. Egger & O. Razum, (eds.) Walter de Gruyter, Berlin: 84-92.
Geyer, S., Spreckelsen, O., & von dem Knesebeck, O. "Wealth, income, and health before and after retirement", Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 68, 11: 1080-1087.
Jaunzeme, J., Otto, F., & Geyer, S. "Healthier after the cure? Analysis of SHI data with before-after comparison for participants of a mother-child measure and mothers without a cure permit", Praxis Klinische Verhaltensmedizin und Rehabilitation.27, 1: 41-49.
2013
Geyer, S. "One-, two- or three-class medicine? Social inequalities in health care in Germany?", in Anerkennung und Selbstkonstitution:Schlüsselkategorien im Verhältnis von Armut, Krankheit und Gesundheit, H. Fangerau & S. Kessler, (Eds.) Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart: 207-224.
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 using the example of the AOK Lower Saxony", Bundesgesundheitsblatt 56: 447-454.
Jentschke M, Geyer S, Hillemanns P. "What do we need, what is superfluous? Early detection of cervical carcinoma". Gynecology and Obstetrics 6: 32-34.
Junge, C., Westhoff-Bleck, M., Schoof, S., Danne, F., Buchhorn, R., Seabrook, J. A., Geyer, S., Ziemer, G., Wessel, A., & Norozi, K. Comparison of Late Results of Arterial Switch Versus Atrial Switch (Mustard Procedure) Operation for Transposition of the Great Arteries. The American Journal of Cardiology 111[10], 1505-1509.
Knöchelmann, A., Geyer, S., & Grosser, U. "Maternal Understanding of Infective Endocarditis After Hospitalization: Assessing the Knowledge of Mothers of Children with Congenital Heart Disease and the Practical Implications", Pediatric Cardiology, vol. dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00246-013-0763-8: 1-9.
Miething, A., Lundberg, O., & Geyer, S. "Income and health in different welfare contexts: A comparison of Sweden, East and West Germany", Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 41, 3: 260-268.
Noeres, D., Park-Simon, T. W., Grabow, J., Sperlich, S., Koch-Gießelmann, H., Jaunzeme, J., & Geyer, S. "Return to work after treatment for primary breast cancer over a 6-year period: Results from a prospective study comparing patients with the general population", Supportive Care in Cancer, DOI: 10.1007/s00520-013-1739-1: 1-9.
Sperlich, S., Arnhold-Kerri, S., Siegrist, J., & Geyer, S. "The mismatch between high effort and low reward in household and family work predicts impaired health among mothers", The European Journal of Public Health 23, 5: 893-898.
Steinhilper, L., Geyer, S., & Sperlich, S. "Health behavior change among breast cancer patients", International Journal of Public Health 58, 4: 603-613.
Wedegärtner, F., Geyer, S., te Wildt, B., & Lee, W. E. "Depression, anxiety and the risk of permanent disability and mortality in the working population in germany: a cohort study", European Psychiatry, vol. 28, Supplement 1, DOI: dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0924-9338(13)76923-2.
Wedegärtner, F., Geyer, S., Arnhold-Kerri, S., Sittaro, N.-A., & te Wildt, B. "Alcohol use disorder-related sick leave and mortality: a cohort study", Addiction Science and Clinical Practice, vol. doi:10.1186/1940-0640-8-3.
Wedegärtner, F., Arnhold-Kerri, S., Sittaro, N.-A., Bleich, S., Geyer S & Lee, W E "Depression- and anxiety-related sick leave and the risk of permanent disability and mortality in the working population in Germany: a cohort study", BMC Public Health, vol. www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/13/145.
2012
Geyer S. Soziale Ungleichheiten in der onkologischen Versorgung [Social inequalities in cancer care]? The Oncologist 37:1-5.
Geyer S. Qualitätssicherung und Nachwuchsförderung [Quality assurance and the promotion of young scientists]. In: AQA-Österreichische Qualitätssicherungsagentur, Kohler, A. (ed.) Does research need quality management? Facultas Verlag, Vienna: 77-84.
Geyer S, Micheelis W. Changes in problem-based and routine-based health care attendance. A comparison of three national dental health surveys. Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology 40:459-467.
Geyer S, Schlanstedt-Jahn U. Gibt es soziale Ungleichheiten in der Inanspruchnahme der onkologischen Rehabilitation bei Mammakarzinompatientinnen [Are there social inequalities in the utilization of rehabilitation in oncology]? The health care system 74:71-78.
Geyer S, Siegrist J. Sozialwissenschaftliche Verfahren in den Gesundheitswissenschaften [Social scientific methods in the health sciences]. In: Hurrelmann K, Razum O (eds.) Handbuch Gesundheitswissenschaften. Beltz Juventa, Weinheim: 343-374.
Geyer S. & Abel T. Public health methods: social sciences. In: Egger, M. & Razum, O. (eds.): Public Health. Social and preventive medicine compact (2nd ed.). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter: 78-86.
Micheelis W, Geyer S. Nachfragemuster von GKV- und PKV-Versicherten nach zahnärztlicher Untersuchung [Patterns of dental health care utilization in statutory and privately insured]. German Dental Journal 67: 773-776.
Knesebeck O v.d., Geyer S. Chronische und akute psychosoziale Belastungen [Chronic and acute psychosocial stressors]. In: Brähler E, Strauß B (Eds.) Grundlagen der Medizinischen Psychologie, Vol. 1. Hogrefe, Göttingen: 356-376.
Sperlich S, Peter R, Geyer S. Applying the effort-reward imbalance model to household and family work: a population-based study of German mothers. BMC Public Health 12:12.
Löbel A, Geyer S, Grosser U, Wessel A. Knowledge of Congenital Heart Disease of Mothers: Presentation of a Standardized Questionnaire and First Results. Congenital Heart Disease 7:31-40.
2011
Geyer S. "Income, income, or income? The effects of different income measures on health in a national survey", Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 65: 491-496.
Hervatin, R.; Sperlich, S.; Koch-Giesselmann, H.; Geyer S. Variability and stability of coping in women with breast cancer. Supportive Care in Cancer (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00520-011-1334-2).
Noeres, D., von Garmissen, A., Neises, M., Geyer S. "Differences in illness-related knowledge of breast cancer patients according to their involvement in self-help groups". Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics & Gynecology 1-8.
Wedegärtner, F., Arnhold-Kerri, S., Sittaro, N.-A., Lohse, R., Dietrich, D. E., Bleich, S., & Geyer S. "Invalidity and death in employable persons with depression", Psychiatrische Praxis 38: 135-141.
Sperlich S, Arnhold-Kerri S, Geyer S. What accounts for depressive symptoms among mothers? The impact of socioeconomic status, family structure and psychosocial stress. International Journal of Public Health 56: 385-396.
Sperlich S, Arnhold-Kerri S, Geyer S. Social life situation and health of mothers in Germany. Results of a population study. Federal Health Gazette 54: 735-744.
Norozi K, Buchhorn R, Yasin A, Geyer S, Binder L, Seabrook JA, Wessel A. "Growth differentiation factor 15: an additional diagnostic tool for the risk stratification of developing heart failure in patients with operated congenital heart defects?" American Heart Journal 162: 131-135.
2010
Geyer S. Combining data from different sources in medical sociology: Chances, problems and pitfalls, Salute e Società, vol. 9 (supplement), no. 2, pp. 80-94.
Geyer S. Manifestation, explanation and reduction of health inequalities, Ethics in Medicine 22: 249-262.
Geyer S., Schneller T., & Micheelis W. Social gradients and cumulative effects of income and education on dental health in the Fourth German Oral Health Study, Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology 38: 120-128.
Sperlich S, Geyer S. Life situations or strata - Which approach is better suited to describe health-risk life contexts of mothers? In: The health care system 72: 813-823.
2009
Geyer S. "Research in social determinants and health: What sorts of data do we need?", International Journal of Public Health 54, DOI 10.1007/s00038-009-0066-2.
Geyer S., Norozi, K., Buchhorn, R., & Wessel, A. Chances of employment in women and men after surgery of congenital heart disease: Comparisons between patients and the general population. Congenital Heart Disease 2009, 4: 25-33.
Wedegärtner,F.; Geyer S.: Wenn Zahlen rauschen statt sprechen - von der Problematik der epidemiologischen Bewertung psychischer und körperlicher Befunde am Beispiel einer Sekundärdatenanalyse [If data are murmuring instead of speaking- On the problem of epidemiological evaluations of psychiatric and physical diagnoses]. In: Dietrich,D.E.; Garlipp,P.; Debus,S.; Emrich,H. (Eds.): What language does the psyche have? On the integration of socio-psychological and biological aspects of psychiatry. Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 2009
Kugler C, Geyer S, Gottlieb J, Simon A, Haverich A, Dracup K (2009). Symptom Experience after Solid Organ Transplantation. Journal of Psychosomatic Research 66: 101-110.
Knesebeck O v.d., Bauer U, Geyer S, & Mielck A (2009). Social inequality in health care - A plea for systematic research. The Health Care System 71:59-62
2008
Geyer S. Social inequalities in the incidence and case fatality of cancers of the lung, the stomach, the bowels, and the breast. Cancer Causes and Control 19: 965-974 (DOI: 10.1007/s10552-008-9162-5).
Geyer S. Single indicator or index? A comparison of measures of social differentiation. The health care system 70: 281-288
Geyer S. Social structure and disease: analyses with data from statutory health insurance. Federal Health Gazette 51: 1164-1172.
Geyer S. "Empiricism and explanation of health inequalities: The practice of empirical research on health inequalities and its theoretical implications," in , U. Bauer, U. H. Bittlingmayer, & M. Richter, (eds.), VAS- Verlag, Wiesbaden, pp. 124-142.
Geyer S. Teaching Medical Sociology in Germany. In: Piatkowsky, W. ; Plonka-Syroka, B. (Eds.): Socjologia i antropologia medycyny w dzialniu. Arboretum: Wroclaw: 165-176.
Geyer S. Ricerca empirica e spiegazione delle disuguaglianze sociali in rapporto alla salute e alla malattia: aspetti metodologici e teorici. In: Tonetti-Bordogna M. (ed.): Disuguaglianze di salute e immigrazione. Milano: FrancoAngeli: 31-44.
Geyer S. Réduire les inégalités sociales de santé en Allemagne: Les mesures et leur succès. In: Niewiadomski C, Aiach P (eds.) Lutter contre les inégalités sociales de santé. Rennes: Presses de l'EHESP: 161-170.
Geyer S. Social inequality and utilization of health services. Public Health Forum 16: 24-25.
Geyer S, Zoege M, Norozi K, Kempa A, Buchhorn R, & Wessel A. "Study participation and non-response in a population of adolescents and adults with operated congenital heart disease (GUCH-patients)" Congenital Heart Disease 3: 26-32.
Geyer S, Noeres D, Mollova M, Sassmann H, Prochnow A, Neises M Does the occurrence of adverse life events in patients with breast cancer lead to a change in illness behavior? Supportive Care in Cancer 16: 1407-1414 (DOI: 10.1007/s10552-008-9162-5).
Norozi K, Buchhorn R, Wessel A, Bahlmann J, Raab B, Geyer S, Kühne T, Beibei L, Werdan K, Loppnow H. Beta-blockade does not alter plasma cytokine concentrations and ventricular function in adults with right ventricular dysfunction secondary to operated congenital heart disease. Circulation Journal 72: 747-752
Working Group on the Collection and Use of Secondary Data (AGENS) of the German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention (DGSMP) (2008) GPS - Good Practice Secondary Data Analysis: Revision after fundamental revision. The health care system 70: 54-60.
2007
Geyer S. Between ethos and business: Medicine in times of economic dictates. Focus MUL; 24:45-52.
Geyer S, Norozi K, Zoege M, Buchhorn R, Wessel A. Life chances after surgery of congenital heart disease: The influence of cardiac surgery on intergenerational social mobility. A comparison between patients and general population data. Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil 14:128-134.
Geyer S, Wedegärtner F. Variability of physicians' judgments in school entry examinations. Public Health 69:621-627.
Geyer S, Norozi K, Wessel A, Buchhorn R, Zoege M. Life chances after surgery for congenital heart defects. In Tiesmeyer K, Brause M, Lierse M (eds.): The blind spot. Inequalities in health care. Bern: Huber: 77-92.
Brake H, Sassmann H, Noeres D, Neises M, Geyer S. Ways to a breast cancer diagnosis, consistency of received information, patient satisfaction, and the presence of close others. Supportive Care in Cancer 15:841-848.
Knesebeck Ovd, Geyer S. Social support, education and self-rated health in 22 European countries. Biomed Central 7: DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-7-272, p. 272.
Peter R, Gässler H, Geyer S. Socioeconomic status, status inconsistency and risk of ischaemic heart disease. A prospective study among members of a statutory health insurance company. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 61:605-611.
Lostao L, Regidor E, Geyer S, Aiach P. Patient cost sharing and physician visits by socioeconomic position: findings in three Western European countries. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 61:416-420.
Lostao L, Regidor E, Geyer S, Aiach P. Patient cost sharing and social inequalities in access to health care in three western European countries. Social Science and Medicine 65:367-376.
Norozi K, Wessel A, Buchhorn R, Alpers V, Arnhold J, Zoege M, Geyer S. Is the Ability Index Superior to the NYHA Classification for Assessing Heart Failure? - Comparison of two Classification Scales in Adolescents and Adults with Operated Congenital Heart Defects. Clin Res Cardiol 9:1-6.
Norozi K, Wessel A, Alpers V, Arnhold JO, Binder L, Geyer S, Zoege M, Buchhorn R. Chronotropic Incompetence in Adolescents and Adults With Congenital Heart Disease After Cardiac Surgery. J Card Fail 13:263-268.
2006
Geyer S.; Siegrist, J. Social science research methods in the health sciences. In: Hurrelmann, K.; Laaser, U. (eds.) Handbuch Gesundheitswissenschaften (new edition). Weinheim: Juventa: 327-354.
Geyer S. Editoriale: Le disuguaglianze sociali di salute. In: Giarelli, G.; Geyer S. (Eds.): Prospettive europee sui sistemi sanitari che cambiano. Special issue of the journal "Salute e Società", Supplemento SISS: 7-18.
Geyer S.; Hemström, Ö.; Peter, R.; Denny Vågerö Education, income and occupational class cannot be used interchangeably in social epidemiology. Empirical evidence against an unquestioned practice. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 60: 804-810.
Geyer S., Hessel, A., Kempa, A., Zoege, M., Norozi, K., Wessel, A., Albani, C. Psychological symptoms and body image in patients after surgery for congenital heart defects: comparisons between patients and the general population. Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics, Medical Psychology 56: 425-431.
Brake, H., Saßmann, H., Noeres, D.; Neises, M., Geyer S.: Ways to a breast cancer diagnosis, consistency of received information, patient satisfaction, and the presence of close others. Supportive Care in Cancer
Kühner, S.; Fietkau, R.; Bruns, S.; Villarroel Gonzalez, D.; Geyer S. Do members of support groups know more about breast cancer? Comparison of patients' knowledge about the disease, treatment and prevention. Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics, Medical Psychology 56: 432-436.
Norozi, K., Zoege, M., Buchhorn, R., Wessel, A., Geyer S. The influence of congenital heart disease on psychological conditions in adolescents and adults after corrective surgery. Congenital Heart Disease 1: 282-288.
Norozi, K., Buchhorn, R., Bartmus, D., Zoege, M., Binder, Geyer S., Wessel, A. Elevated brain natriuretic peptide and reduced exercise capacity in adult patients operated on for Tetralogy of Fallot is due to beventricular dysfunction as determined by the myocardial performance index. American Journal of Cardiology 97: 1377-1382.
Norozi, K., Wessel, A., Alpers, V., Arnhold, J., Geyer S., Zoege, M., Ruschewski, W., Buchhorn, R: Incidence and risk distribution of heart failure in adolescents and adults with congenital heart disease after cardiac surgery. American Journal of Cardiology 97: 1238-1243.
Giarelli, G.; Geyer S. (Eds.): Prospettive europee sui sistemi sanitari che cambiano. Special issue of the journal "Salute e Società", 2006.
2005
Geyer S. (2005) The determination of socio-economic position in process data and its use in secondary analyses. In: Swart, E.; Ihle, P. (eds.) Routine data in health care. Handbuch Sekundärdatenanalyse: Grundlagen, Methoden und Perspektiven. Bern: Huber,: 203-214.
Geyer S.; Krentel, H.; Grothusen, C.; Nussbeck, C.; Collatz, J. (2005) Das Berufsfelderkundungspraktikum an der Medizinischen Hochschule Hannover- Konzeption, Durchführung und Vierjahresevaluation. GMS Journal for Medical Education 22: 33-39.
Swart E.; Ihle P.; Geyer S.; Grobe P.; Hofmann W. (2005) GPS- Good Practice Secondary Data Analysis. Working Group on the Collection and Use of Secondary Data (AGENS) of the German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention (DGSMP). The health care system 67,: 416-421.
Swart E.; Ihle P.; Geyer S.; Grobe P.; Hofmann W. (2005) GPS-Gute Praxis Sekundärdatenanalyse. In: Gostomzyk, J.G. (ed.): Applied social medicine. Landsberg: Ecomed: 1-9.
Norozi, K., Buchhorn, R., Alpers, V., Arnhold, J., Schoof, S, Zoege, M., Geyer S., Wessel, A. (2005) Relation of Systemic Ventricular Function Quantified by Myocardial Performance Index (Tei ) to Cardiopulmonary Exercise Capacity in Adults after Mustard Procedure for Transposition of the Great Arteries. American Journal of Cardiology 96: 1721-1725.
2004
Geyer S.; Peter, R. (2004) Nielsen, I. Health inequalities in different age groups: The case of type II-diabetes. A study with health insurance and medication data. Social and Preventive Medicine 49: 328-335.
Geyer S. & Aiach, P. Le rôle des facteurs socio-économiques dans la manifestation et le déroulement des cancers. In. Aiach, P.; Marseille M. ; Theis, I. (Eds.): Pourquoi ce lourd tribut payé au cancer? Rennes: Éditions de l'École Nationale de la Santé Publique: 148-158.
Geyer S.; Borgetto, B.; Stößel, U Socio-structural determinants of the life course. In: Strauß, B.; v. Troschke, J.; Brähler, E. (eds.) Textbook of medical psychology and sociology. Göttingen: Hogrefe,: 301-310.
Aapro, M. S., Aaro, L. E., Aro, A. R., Bergenmar, M., Bloch, J, Borras, A. J. M., Bottomley, A., Brug, J., Corner, J., Evered, D., Flechtner, H., Geyer S., Greimel, E., Hine, J., Johansen, C., Klepp, J. I., Lynge, E., Marteau, T., Paltrinieri, B., Poetschke-Langer, M., Rautalathi, M., Razavi, D., Sasco, A. J, Segnan, N., Strand, M., Vertio, H., De Vries, H. Research in the behavioral and social sciences to improve cancer control and care: A strategy for development. A report of an Expert Group. European Journal of Cancer 40: 316-325
2003
Geyer S. (2003) Testing questionnaires with cognitive methods: part 1, probing questions. Social and Preventive Medicine 48,: 133-134.
Geyer S. (2003) Testing questionnaires with cognitive methods: part 2, thinkalouds. Social and Preventive Medicine 48: 292-293.
Geyer S. (2003) Possibilities and limits of reducing health inequalities through prevention and health promotion. Prevention 26,:35-39.
Geyer S.: Empirical research methods in the health sciences. Weinheim: Juventa, 2003
Geyer S. (2003) From structure to case: The practical implementation of medical sociological knowledge. In: Stoessel, U. & von Troschke, J. (eds.) Innovative approaches to teaching in the psychosocial subjects of medical training. Volume 13 of the publication series of the Coordination Center for Health Sciences. Freiburg: German Coordination Center for Health Sciences: 128-139.
Geyer S. (2003) The role of life-changing events in the development and course of myocardial infarction. In: Slesina, W.; Werdan, K. (eds.) Psychosocial factors of coronary heart disease. Development, course, care. Stuttgart: Schattauer: 13-22.
Geyer S.: Possibilities and limits of reducing health inequalities through prevention and health promotion. Prevention 2003, 26:35-39.
Geyer S.; Peter, R. (2003) Hospital admissions after transition into unemployment. Social and Preventive Medicine 48,: 105-114.
Peter, R.; Yong, M.; Geyer S. (2003) School and vocational education, occupational status and ischemic heart disease: a prospective study with data from a statutory health insurance in Germany. Social and Preventive Medicine 48: 44-54.
2002
Geyer S.; Peter, R.; Siegrist J. (2002) Socio-economic differences in children's and adolescents' hospital admissions in Germany - a report based on health insurance data on selected diagnostic categories. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 56, 2002: 109-114.
Geyer S. (2002) Social science foundations. In: Kolip. P. (ed.) Introduction to the health sciences. Weinheim: Juventa: 53-78.
Siegrist, J.; Geyer S.: Social inequality and illness. In: Brähler, E.; Strauß B. (Eds.) Fields of action in psychosocial medicine. Göttingen: Hogrefe, 2002: 330-344.
2001
Geyer S. (2001) Von der Struktur zum Fall- Die Vermittlung von Medizinsoziologie in Seminaren mit Patientenvorstellungen. Medical education 18: 148-153.
Geyer S.: Social inequality and morbidity. - Findings with health insurance data. Public Health Forum 2001: 6-7.
Geyer S.; Haltenhof, H. Peter, R. (2001) Social inequality in the utilization of in- and outpatient treatment of non-psychotic/ non-organic disorders. A study with health insurance data. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 36: 373-380.
Geyer S. (2001) Geyer S.: Sense of Coherence. In: Mielck, A.; Bloomfield, K. (eds.) Social Epidemiology. Weinheim and Munich: Juventa: 196-206.
Geyer S.: (2001) Life events and social support. In: Mielck, A.; Bloomfield, K. (eds.) Social Epidemiology. Weinheim: Juventa: 207-218.
Publications from the year 2000 and before
Publications in peer-reviewed journals
Publications in reviewed journals
Geyer S.: Life events prior to manifestation of breast cancer: A limited prospective study covering eight years before diagnosis. Journal of Psychosomatic Research 35, 1991: 355-364.
Geyer S. & Lilli, W.: Action and situation orientation in studies: A comparison of two disciplines. Journal of Social Psychology 23, 1992: 119-128.
Geyer S.: Artifacts in "limited prospective" designs? Testing confounding effects on response behavior of women prior to breast surgery. Journal of Psychosomatic Research 36, 1992: 107-116.
Geyer S.: Situational effects in the reporting of life events? A comparison of two data collection methods. Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics, Medical Psychology 43, 1993: 55-62.
Geyer S.: Life events, chronic difficulties and vulnerability factors preceeding breast cancer. Social Science and Medicine 37, 1993: 1545- 1555.
Geyer S.: Social factors in the development and course of cancers. The Cancer Journal/ Journal du Cancer 9, 1996: 8-12.
Geyer S.: The role of psychological factors in the development and course of cancers. The Cancer Journal/Journal du Cancer 10, 1997: 238-243.
Geyer S.: The explanation of socially unequal distributions of diseases. Das Gesundheitswesen 59, 1997: 36-40.
Geyer S.: Some conceptual considerations on the Sense of Coherence. Social Science and Medicine 44, 1997: 1771-1779.
Geyer S.: Social and psychosocial factors in the development and course of cancers. Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift 112, 2000: 986-994 .
Geyer S.; Broer, M.; Haltenhof, H.; Bühler, K.-E.; Merschbächer, U.: The evaluation of life event data. Journal of Psychosomatic Research 38, 1994: 837-848.
Geyer S.; Dragano, N.; Heide, K.; Träbert, D.; Kremen, E.: The assessment of AIDS risks: Effects of different scale specifications and preventive knowledge. Social and Preventive Medicine 42, 1997: 298-305.
Geyer S.; Peter, R. Accident-related hospital admissions of children and adolescents depending on their social status - findings with data from a North Rhine-Westphalian AOK. Das Gesundheitswesen 8/9, 1998: 493-499.
Geyer S.; Peter, R. Occupational status and all-cause mortality: A study with health insurance data from Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. European Journal of Public Health 9, 1999: 114-118.
Geyer S.; Peter, R. Income, occupational position, qualification, and health inequalities-competing risks? Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 54, 2000: 299-305
Geyer S.; Peter, R.: Hospital admissions after transition into unemployment. Social and Preventive Medicine 48, 2003: 105-114.
Schwarz, R.; Geyer S.: Social and psychological differences between cancer- and noncancer patients: Cause or consequence of the disease? Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 1984, 41: 195- 199.
Peter, R.; Geyer S.: School and vocational training, occupational status and myocardial infarction. A study with data from a German statutory health insurance fund. Das Gesundheitswesen 1999, 61: 20-26.
Haltenhof H.; Oswald F.; Bühler K.-E.; Geyer S. Psychosocial competence of general practitioners in the care of mentally ill patients: first results of a questionnaire study. Das Gesundheitswesen 2000, 62: 463-467.
Frühbuß, J.; Geyer S.; Siegrist, J. et al: Recommendation of the German public health study programs for the teaching content "Social and behavioral sciences in the core curriculum". (Resolution of the representatives of all public health study programs in Germany on 23.10.1996 in Düsseldorf). Public Health 59, 1997: 535-537.
Bühler, K.-E.; Haltenhof, H.; Geyer S.; Bardeleben, H. The influence of personality variables on the reporting of life events. Journal of Affective Disorders 53, 1999: 67-76
Bühler, K.-E.; Geyer S.; Haltenhof, H.; Bardeleben, H. Prognostic effects of biographical data and differences between neurotic depressive, endogenous depressive and healthy subjects. Swiss Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry 151, 2000: 114-122.
Journals according to editor's decision
Journals according to editor's decision
Geyer S.: Prior knowledge in patients with suspected breast cancer. Medical Sociology 3/4, 1989/90: 52-61.
Geyer S.: Sociological considerations on the chronification of neurotic and psychosomatic illnesses. Practice of Clinical Behavioral Medicine and Rehabilitation 5, 1992: 64-68.
Geyer S.; von dem Knesebeck, O.: The woman over 60 - medical-sociological and demographic aspects. The Gynecologist 1996, 29: 721-725.
Siegrist, J.; Peter, J.; Himmelmann, J. & Geyer S.: Experiences with an anamnesis questionnaire for the diagnosis of sleep apnea. Practice and Clinical Department of Pneumology 1987, 41: 357- 363.
Abel, T., Geyer S. & Siegrist, J.: Educational level and parental mortality in an East-West comparison: A contribution to the discussion. Federal Health Gazette 1993, 36: 6- 10.
Fischer, G.C.; Fehr, S.; Geyer S.; Raub, M.; Rosendahl, C.; Weber, I.: "Interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit in der Patientenversorgung" MHH- Modellseminar für Studierende der Medizin und anderer Gesundheitsberufe. Lower Saxony Medical Journal 1999, 72: 12-14
Monographs / books
Geyer S.: Life events and breast cancer. Bern: Huber, 1991.
Geyer S.: Does misfortune make you ill? Life crises and the development of diseases. Weinheim: Juventa, 1999.
Edited books
Abel, T.; Geyer S.; Gerhardt, U.; Siegrist J. & van den Heuvel, W.J.A. (eds.): Medical Sociology: Research on Chronic Illness. Bonn: Information Center for Social Sciences, 1993.
Book chapters
Geyer S.: Life-changing events, social inequality and stress. In: Jugendwerk der Deutschen Shell (ed.): Jugend '92. Lebenslagen, Orientierungen und Entwicklungsperspektiven im vereinten Deutschland (Volume 2). Opladen: Leske & Budrich, 1992, pp. 221-236.
Geyer S.: The recording of life-changing events. In: Jugendwerk der Deutschen Shell (ed.): Jugend '92. Lebenslagen, Orientierungen und Entwicklungsperspektiven im vereinten Deutschland (Volume 4). Opladen: Leske & Budrich, 1992, pp. 27-39 .
Geyer S.: A misfortune rarely comes alone - stressful life changes. In: Keller, F.B. (ed.) Sick why? Ideas of peoples, healers, physicians. Cantz: Stuttgart, 1995, pp. 275-277.
Geyer S.: Social inequality and social support as protective and vulnerability factors. In: Buchegger, R.; Schattovits, H. (Eds.) 6th Interdisciplinary Symposium on Family Research. Vienna: Austrian Institute for Family Research, 1998: 65-72.
Geyer S.: How does health develop? In: Polak, G. (ed.) The Handbook of Public Health. Vienna: Springer, 1999: 179-188.
Geyer S.: Social inequality and psychotherapy. In: Strauß, B. & Geyer, M. (eds.) Psychotherapy in times of change. Historical, cultural and social backgrounds of a profession. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 2000: 210-219.
Geyer S.: Antonovsky's Sense of Coherence- a well-tested and empirically confirmed concept? In: Wydler H.; Kolip, P.; Abel, T. (Eds.): Salutogenesis and Sense of Coherence. Weinheim: Juventa, 2000: 71- 84.
Geyer S. & Siegrist, J.: Assessing life events in stress-related disease. In: Bueno, L.; Collins, S. & Junien, J.-L. (eds.): Stress and digestive motility. London, Paris: John Libbey Eurotext 1989, pp. 31-40.
Geyer S.; Siegrist, J.: Social science research methods in the health sciences. In: Hurrelmann, K.; Laaser, U. (eds.) Handbuch Gesundheitswissenschaften. Weinheim: Juventa 1998: 259-280 17
Geyer S.; Lilli, W. Action control of students. In: Glöckner-Rist, A. (ed.) ZUMA Information System. Electronic handbook of social science measurement instruments. Version 5.00. Mannheim: Center for Surveys, Methods and Analyses, 2000.
Reviews:
Diefenbacher, A: Psychiatry and colonialism: On the "care of the insane" in the colony of German East Africa. Frankfurt, 1985 Social Science and Medicine 23, 1986: 833- 834.
Siegrist, J.: Medical Sociology. Munich, 2005. Social and Preventive Medicine 51, 2006: 323-324.