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

Grasshoff, J, Safieddine, B, Sperlich, S, Beller J. (2025). Gender differences in psychosomatic complaints across occupations and time from 2006 to 2018 in Germany: a repeated cross-sectional study. BMC Public Health 25, 409. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-21462-8

Sperlich S, Noeres D, Holthausen-Markou S, Park-Simon TW, Sahiti E, Geyer S (2024). Social participation of women with breast cancer compared to the general population 5 years after primary surgery-what role do medical data and cancer-related complaints play? Support Care Cancer 32:566 doi:10.1007/s00520-024-08695-w

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. 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

Grasshoff J, Safieddine B, Sperlich S, Beller J. Gender inequalities of psychosomatic complaints at work vary by occupational groups of white- and blue-collar and level of skill: A cross sectional study. PLoS ONE. 2024;19(7):e0303811. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0303811

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

Sperlich S, Noeres D, Holthausen-Markou S, Park-Simon TW, Sahiti E, Geyer S. Social participation of women with breast cancer compared to the general population 5 years after primary surgery-what role do medical data and cancer-related complaints play? Support Care Cancer 2024;32:566. rdcu. be/dPQIJ

Beller J, Safieddine B, Sperlich S, Tetzlaff J, Geyer S (2024). Socioeconomic differences in limited lung function: a cross-sectional study of middle-aged and older adults in Germany. International Journal for Equity in Health. 2024;23(1):138. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-024-02224-1

Sperlich S, Beller J, Safieddine B, Tetzlaff J, Geyer S (2024). Widening Educational Inequalities in Physical Health Due to the Obesity Trend?-A Mediation Analysis Using the German Socio-Economic Panel Study. International Journal of Public Health. 2024;69:1606932. doi: 10.3389/ijph.2024.1606932

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. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-58650-2

Beller J, Safieddine B, Sperlich S, Tetzlaff J, Geyer S (2024). Time trends in limited lung function among German middle-aged and older adults. Scientific reports. 2024;14(1):5036. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-55624-2

Sperlich S, Beller J, Epping J, Geyer S, Tetzlaff J (2023). 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:jech-2023-220345

Safieddine B, Trachte F, Sperlich S, Epping J, Lange K, Geyer S (2023). 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. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20054491

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

Beller J, Epping J, Sperlich S, Tetzlaff J (2023). 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

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

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. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-022-00707-0

Sperlich S, Adler F-M, Beller J, Safieddine B, Tetzlaff F, Tetzlaff J., Geyer S (2022) Getting Better or Getting Worse? A Population-Based Study on Trends in Self-Rated Health among Single Mothers in Germany between 1994 and 2018. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health; 19 (5):2727. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19052727

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

Tübbecke F-M, Epping J, Safieddine B, Sperlich S (2022). 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

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, 2021, 19:47. doi. org/10.1186/s12963-021-00280-1

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.

Sperlich S, Klar MK,Safieddine B, Tetzlaff F, 'Tetzlaff J, Geyer S (2021). Life stage-specific trends in educational inequalities in health-related quality of life and self-rated health between 2002 and 2016 in Germany: findings from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP). BMJ Open 2021;11:e042017. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2020-042017

Klar MK, Geyer S, Safieddine B, Tetzlaff F, Tetzlaff J, Sperlich S (2021). Trends in healthy life expectancy between 2002 and 2018 in Germany - Compression or expansion of health-related quality of life (HRQOL)? SSM - Population Health 2021; 13: 100758 doi.10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.100758

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, 21. 10.1186/s12889-021-10236-7

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

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. 2020:100596.

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. 2020;20(1):113.

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

Sperlich S, Tetzlaff J, Geyer S (2019). Trends in good self-rated health in Germany between 1995 and 2014: do age and gender matter? Int J Pub Health 64: 921-933.

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. 10.1007/s00038-019-01224-1

Sperlich S (2018). Non-occupational stress and cardiovascular disease. Aktuel Kardiol 7: 363-367. 10.1055/a-0638-7449

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. DOI 10.1186/s12939-018-0815-z

Sperlich S, Geyer S (2016). Household and family work and health. In: Siegrist J, Wahrendorf M (eds): Work stress and health in a globalized economy. The model of effort-reward imbalance. Chapter 13, p 293-311, Springer Switzerland.

Sperlich S, Barre F, Otto F (2016). Gratification crises in domestic and family work - statistical testing of the questionnaire on fathers with underage children. Psychother Psych Med 66: 57-66.

Sperlich S (2016). Action-oriented perspectives on health and illness. In: Richter M, Hurrelmann K (eds) Sociology of Health and Illness. Springer VS Wiesbaden, pp. 41-54.

Sperlich S, Geyer S (2015). The mediating effect of effort-reward imbalance in household and family work on the relationship between education and women's health. Soc Sci Med, 131: 58-65.

Sperlich S, Arnhold-Kerri S, Geyer S (2015). ERI-HF. Questionnaire for measuring gratification crises in domestic and family work In: Richter D, Brähler E, Ernst J (eds.). Diagnostic procedures for counseling and therapy of couples and families. Diagnostics for Clinical Department and Practice - Volume 8, 1st edition, 2015, Hogrefe Verlag

Sperlich S, Geyer S (2015). The impact of social and family-related factors on women's stress experience in household and family work. Int J Public Health, 60: 375-387. doi 10.1007/s00038-015-0654-2

Sperlich S (2014). Health risks in different life situations of mothers: analyses based on a population study, Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz, 57, 12, 1411-1423. Link to the text.

Sperlich S , Maina M N (2014). Are single mothers' higher smoking rates mediated by dysfunctional coping styles?, BMC women's health, 14, 124-6874-14-124. Link to text.

Sperlich S. (2014). Gratification crises in domestic and family work - Are there differences between East and West German mothers? Practice of Clinical Behavioral Medicine and Rehabilitation, 93, 21-39.

Trachte F, Sperlich S, Geyer S. (2014). Compression or expansion of morbidity? Development of health in the older population. Journal of Gerontology and Geriatrics, DOI 10.1007/s00391-014-0644-7

Sperlich S, Maina M N, Noeres D (2013). The effect of psychosocial stress on single mothers' smoking. BMC Public Health 13:1125, doi:10.1186/1471-2458-13-1125

Steinhilper L, Geyer S, Sperlich S (2013). Health behavior change among breast cancer patients, Int J Public Health, DOI 10.1007/s00038-013-0444-7

Sperlich S, Siegrist J, Geyer S (2013): The mismatch between high effort and low reward in household and family work predicts impaired health among mothers. European Journal of Public Health, 23(5):893-898.

Sperlich S, Peter R, Geyer S (2012): Applying the Effort-Reward Imbalance model to household and family work. A Population based study of German mothers. BMC Public Health 12:12

Sperlich S, Babitsch B, Hofreuter-Gätgens K (2012): Advanced social structure models for health inequality research - What perspectives does the life situation approach open up? Health Care 74(3): e10-e18 DOI: http: //dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0031-1275712

Arnhold-Kerri S, Otto F, Sperlich S (2011): Relationship between family stressors, coping resources of mothers and the health-related quality of life of their children. Psychother Psych Med 61: 405-411

Hervatin R, Sperlich S, Koch- Giesselmann H, Geyer S. (2011): Variability and stability of coping in women with breast cancer. Supportive Care in Cancer. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00520-011-1334-2

Sperlich S, Arnhold-Kerri S, Geyer S (2011a): Social life situation and health of mothers in Germany. Results of a population study. Bundesgesundheitsbl 54: 735-744 (pdf file of the publication)

Sperlich S, Arnhold-Kerri S, Geyer S (2011b): What accounts for depressive symptoms among mothers? The impact of socioeconomic status, family structure and psychosocial stress. Int J Public Health 56:385-396.

Sperlich S, Illiger K, Geyer S (2011): Why do mothers smoke? Influence of life situation and psychological factors on tobacco consumption of mothers with underage children. Bundesgesundheitsbl 54: 1211-1220 (pdf-file of the publication)

Sperlich S (2010a): Psychosocial stress - an aspect of maternal health inequality? In: Collatz J (ed.): Family Medicine in Germany. Necessity, Dilemma, Perspectives, Pabst Science Publishers, Lengerich: 132-153.

Sperlich S, Geyer S (2010): 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.

Sperlich S (2010b): Evaluation of empowerment processes among socially disadvantaged women - A life situation-oriented approach. The health care system 72: 387-398.

Sperlich S (2009): Reducing health inequalities through empowerment. Empirical analysis of health effects for socially disadvantaged mothers. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden.

Sperlich S (2008): Relationships between the social situation, empowerment processes and the development of mental health Das Gesundheitswesen 70: 779-790.

Sperlich S, Arnhold-Kerri S, Engelke S, Noeres D, Collatz J, Geyer S (2009): Construction of a questionnaire to assess gratification crises in the household and family field of activity Psychother Psych Med 59: 177-185.

Collatz J, Barre F, Sperlich S (2006): 10 years of family medicine research and quality assurance. Praxis Klinische Verhaltensmedizin und Rehabilitation 72: 113-117.

Collatz J, Sperlich S (2006) (Eds.): Der Effektivität familienmedizinsicher Rehabilitation auf der Spur - Forschungsergebnisse und Qualitätssicherung zielgruppenspezifischer präventiver und rehabilitativer Maßnahmen für Mütter/Väter und ihre Kinder. Praxis Verhaltenstherapie Klinische Verhaltensmedizin und Rehabilitation 72: 111-113.

Sperlich S, Collatz J (2006): Single parenthood - a health-risk lifestyle? Reanalysis of data from prevention and rehabilitation facilities for mothers and their children. Practice of Clinical Behavioral Medicine and Rehabilitation 72: 127-137.

Sperlich S (2006): Can empowerment explain the sustained improvement in mothers' psychological well-being after a maternity-specific preventive care and rehabilitation intervention? Practice Clinical Behavioral Medicine and Rehabilitation 72: 148-158.

Sperlich S (2005): External evaluation of process quality - methods of the research association and standards achieved in the member facilities. In: Collatz, Jürgen; Barre, Friederike; Arnhold-Kerri, Sonja (2005) (Eds.): Prävention und Rehabilitation für Mutter und Kind. Needs - Laws - Implementation. Proceedings of the III. Scientific Symposium. Berlin: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Berlin, pp. 217-225.

Sperlich S, Arnhold-Kerri S, Collatz J (2004): Quality management in prevention and rehabilitation facilities for mothers and children - process developments and their first evaluation. Prevention and Rehabilitation 16: 39 - 48.

Sperlich S, Mielck A (2003): Social-epidemiological explanatory approaches in the field of tension between stratification and lifestyle concepts. A plea for an integrative approach based on Bourdieu's habitus theory. Journal of Health Sciences 11: 165-179.

Arnhold-Kerri S, Sperlich S, Collatz J (2003): Disease profiles and therapy effects of patients in mother-child facilities or Institutions. Die Rehabilitation 42: 290-299.

Sperlich S, Collatz J, Arnhold-Kerri S (2002): Internal quality management and external quality assurance in mother-child facilities. Theory and Practice of Social Work 6: 429-434.

Sperlich S. Mielck A (2000): Development of a multi-level model for the systematization of socio-epidemiological explanatory approaches. In: Helmert U, Bammann K, Voges W, Müller R (eds.). Do the poor have to die earlier? Social inequality and health in Germany. Juventa Verlag Weinheim, pp. 27-42.

Sperlich S (2019). Women's health in the field of tension between empowerment and burnout (lecture of the AG Frauengesundheit Kreis Herford, Herford).

Sperlich S (2019). Gratification crises in domestic and family work (24th Congress on Poverty and Health, Berlin).

Sperlich S (2018). Can the health trend in the older population from 1995 to 2013 be explained by changes in physical activity? (Congress of the DGMP and the DGMS, Leipzig)

Sperlich S (2018). Gratification crises in domestic and family work - Prevalence and relevance for medical sociological inequality research (Symposium on the 75th birthday of Johannes Siegrist at the congress of the DGMP and the DGMS, Leipzig)

Sperlich S, Geyer S (2017). Development of subjective health in Germany from 1995-2014 - does the trend differ by gender and phase of life? (Congress of the DGSMP, DGMS and DGEpi, Lübeck)

Sperlich S (2017). Lifeworld - concept and implementation possibilities (Congress of the DGSMP, DGMS and DGEpi, Lübeck)

Sperlich S (2016). Are gratification crises in domestic and family work relevant to fathers' health? (Congress of the DGMP and the DGMS, Berlin)

Sperlich S (2016). Self-optimization - the key to better health for all? (Lecture as part of the project "Health in the police", Braunschweig).

Sperlich S (2015). Medical sociology teaching at Hannover Medical School: Case-based learning (Congress of DGSMP and DGMS, Regensburg).

Sperlich S, Geyer S (2015). Family stress - a significant mediator of the relationship between education and health in women? (Congress of the DGSMP and DGMS, Regensburg)

Sperlich S (2014). Mental health in mothers - which life situations are health-promoting and which are health-risky? Congress of the DGMP and DGMS in Greifswald.

Sperlich S (2014). Stress in household and family work - a neglected issue of health inequality in women? (Congress of the ESHMS, Helsinki).

Trachte F, Sperlich S, Geyer S (2013). Getting healthier in old age - a positive trend for all? A socially stratified analysis of morbidity compression based on data from the Socioeconomic Panel from 1992 to 2010 (Congress of the DGSMP and DGMS, Marburg)

Sperlich S, Geyer S. Gratification crises in domestic and family work - Are there differences between East and West German mothers?

(Congress of the DGSMP and DGMS, Marburg 2013)

Sperlich S. Health of single parents in the field of tension between burdens and resources

(Lecture for the Freiburg Alliance for Family, 2013)

Sperlich S. Are higher smoking rates in low-educated mothers caused by psychosocial stress?
(Congress DGMS/ESHMS, Hanover 2012)

Sperlich S, Illiger K, Geyer S. Why do mothers smoke? Analysis of the influence of life situation and psychological factors on the tobacco consumption of women with underage children.
(Congress DGMS/DGSMP Conference, Bremen 2011)

Sperlich S, Arnold-Kerri S, Geyer S. Lack of Reciprocity in domestic labor - does the effort-reward-imbalance model explain health variation in mothers?
(Congress of the European Society for Health and Medical Sociology, ESHMS, 2010)

Sperlich S, Arnold-Kerri S, Geyer S. Lack of recognition of domestic and family work - A health risk for mothers?
(Congress DGMS/DGMP Gießen 2010)

Hofreuter-Gätgens K, Sperlich S. Social epidemiology meets social structure analysis - challenges and perspectives.
(Congress DGMS/DGSMP, Hamburg 2009)

Babitsch B, Keil A, Sperlich S. Health inequality and living conditions. (Congress DGMS/DGSMP, Hamburg 2009)

Ellis, R, Geyer S, Sperlich S. Variability and stability of coping behavior in women with breast cancer.
(Congress DGMS/DGSMP, Hamburg 2009)

Sperlich S, Arnhold-Kerri S, Geyer S. Inpatient prevention and rehabilitation for mothers - who benefits most from the intervention? (Congress of the DGMS / DGMP Jena 2008)

Sperlich S, Arnhold-Kerri S, Engelke S, Noeres D, Geyer S. Construction of a questionnaire for the assessment of gratification crises in the field of household and family work.
(Congress of the DGMS / DGMP Jena 2008)

Von Lengerke T, Sperlich S. Two subjects - one curriculum. On the status of joint teaching of medical psychology and medical sociology in the MHH model degree program in medicine.
(Congress of the DGMS / DGMP Jena 2008)

Sperlich S, Geyer S. Consideration of new social inequalities 'on this side of class and stratum'.
(Congress Health Inequalities, Bielefeld 2008)

Sperlich S. Modellstudiengang Medizin Chancen und Risiken für die Medizinsoziologie am Beispiel der MH Hannover
(Kongress Medizin und Gesellschaft, Augsburg 2007)

Sperlich S, Geyer S, Collatz J. Life-stage specific consideration of health inequalities as a starting point for a life-world oriented intervention strategy to reduce health inequalities? (Congress Health Inequalities, Bielefeld 2007)