Teaching
Medical sociology deals with the social factors associated with health and illness. The focus is on the following topics:
- The development and course of illnesses and complaints as well as differences in the use of health services depending on indicators of social situation (socialization and social inequality),
- the social organization of health and illness (the German healthcare system against the background of demographic ageing)
- the importance of prevention and health promotion.
The importance of these medical-sociological topics for medical practice is the guiding principle for the orientation of the curriculum. The focus is on the transfer of theory into medical practice. We teach this content in module 201 "Psychological and sociological foundations of medicine" of the HannibaL (Hannoveran Integrated Boccupation-oriented Adaptated Lehre) in cooperation with the Research and Teaching Unit Medical Psychology. In addition, together with our colleagues in Medical Psychology, we also organize the interviewing internship in Module 202 "Diagnostic Methods" as well as preparatory courses in the first year of study. Further information on the HannibaL study programmes here.
Medical Sociology staff also teach on the Master's degree program in Public Health. We are responsible for the modules "Research Methods II - Empirical Social Research and Statistics" and "Statistics and Special Methods of Quantitative Social Research". Further information on the Public Health study programmes: Link
We also invite you to contact us with suggestions for topics for final theses and qualification papers. We mainly supervise theses that are thematically related to our research activities . Here you can find the list of completed theses and dissertations.
Ongoing and completed qualification work
Chiara Heller: Live longer, work longer? Time trend analyses of working life from a health perspective between 2002 and 2018 (2023)
Pauline Lückge: How do mothers cope with their child's congenital heart defect? - The influence of everyday stress, maternal disease knowledge and child disease severity on coping immediately before and one year after surgery (2023)
Marie Kristin Klar: Morbidity compression or expansion in health-related quality of life in Germany? Analysis of the change in physical and mental quality of life and life expectancy without significant limitations between 2002 and 2014 based on data from the Socioeconomic Panel (2022)
Judith Dorff: Congenital heart defects in infants and young children - what influence do the severity of the heart defect and parental stress have on motor and cognitive development one year after intervention/surgery? (2019)
Kristin Kluge: The development of health in older German men and women: Is there a positive health trend? Analysis of the change in the subjective health of the 55-81-year-old population between 2004 and 2013 based on the SHARE dataset (2019)
Florian Trachte: Compression or expansion of morbidity? A socially stratified analysis of the development of health and its influencing factors in the older population in Germany based on the Socio-Economic Panel (2016)
Tobias Michael: Long-term changes in diet and exercise behavior in women with breast cancer over a period of eight years and their effects on the risk of recurrence (2016)
Rafaela Hervatin: Variability and stability of coping behavior in women with breast cancer (2012; also published as a journal article)
Lisa Steinhilper: Changes in health-related lifestyles after breast cancer surgery (2011; also published as a journal article)
Christina Bramsemann: Health complaints and psychosocial stress of mothers with a migration background (2011)
Almut Kempa: Psychological impairments in adults after surgery for congenital heart defects (2007)
Henning Brake: Ways to a breast cancer diagnosis, consistency of received information, patient satisfaction, and the presence of close others (2007)
Remigius Spick: Social inequality in the immunization status of children in Hanover. An analysis with data from school entry examinations of the years 1998-2001 (2006)
Katharina Rating: The application of the GDS in elderly people: Testing comprehensibility and applicability using cognitive testing procedures (2005)
Mirja Schomacker: Quality of life in old age (2002)
Heinz Giese: Written patient information in the practices of registered physicians of the Kässenärztliche Vereinigung, Kreisstelle Mettmann (1999)
Batoul Safieddine: The evolution of type 2 diabetes over time, its comorbidities and the role of prevention and medical treatment (2024)
Fabian Tetzlaff: Live longer, fall ill later? The development of morbidity and mortality from lung cancer in the context of increased life expectancy (2023)
Juliane Tetzlaff: Compression or expansion of morbidity? An analysis of the development of multimorbidity based on health insurance data (2018)
Jelena Epping: 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 (2018)
Denise Muschik: Morbidity compression, morbidity expansion or dynamic equilibrium? The development of morbidity using the example of type 2 diabetes mellitus (2016)
Maren Mylius: Health and illness of undocumented migrants. Medical care and the specific role of health authorities (2016)
Anja Knöchelmann: Diagnosis of a hole in the heart. Longitudinal observation of maternal knowledge about the child's congenital heart defect and construction and validation of a questionnaire (2016)
Thomas Bierbaum: Potential-oriented career development of young scientists in the life sciences in the intercultural field of tension using the example of the BMEP (2016)
Dorothee Noeres: Coping with breast cancer using the example of acquiring disease-relevant knowledge and returning to work (2014)
Sonja Arnhold-Kerri : Children's health-related quality of life as a function of their mothers' stress and coping abilities (2010)
Sonja Engelke: Stress management of mothers. Correlates and differential profiles (2007)
Stefanie Sperlich : Reducing health inequalities of women through empowerment, Empirical analysis of data from prevention and rehabilitation facilities for mothers and their children (2007)
Dr. Johanna Schneider: Analysis of social inequality in cardiopreventive pharmacotherapy over time based on routine data from a statutory health insurance fund (2023)
Steven Baeyer : Socio-demographic determinants of vaccination behavior among people with a migration background - Accompanying research on the Communications of the Corona Vaccination in Germany (CoSiD) of the Federal Centre for Health Education (BZgA) (2023)
Karolin Krosta: Determinants of professional compliance for the prevention of postoperative wound infections: An analysis of data from the WACH study to further develop a survey instrument based on the COM-B model (2022)
Elena Bauer: Factors influencing the cardiovascular risk profile of chronically ill children and adolescents after transplantation: A quantitative data analysis (2022)
Anne Malert-Zschoch : Everyday life and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: Analysis of subjective health indicators and impairments due to restrictions in everyday life. Comparison of the results of an exploratory online survey and the COSMO-COVID-19 Snapshot Monitoring (2021)
Stefanie Konwert: Quality of life and employment of patients with severe eosinophilic asthma under IL-5/r therapy (2021)
Katharina Pogodda: The medical care of cancer patients with comorbidities at Hannover Medical School during the COVID-19 pandemic (2021)
Nicole Victoria Pisarek: Influence of social factors on disease-specific stress in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes and their parents (2021)
Mareike Lina Wollenweber: Predictors of self-reported acceptance of influenza and pneumococcal vaccinations among adults aged 18 years and older with immunodeficiency using the example of HIV before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. An exploratory analysis of initial results of the study DIMI - Digital Infection Monitoring in People with Immunodeficiency (2021)
Berit Wistal: Which methods are used in public health studies? A literature study on research methods in empirical publications with public health relevance from Germany in the period 2010-2019 (2021)
Liesa Tiedemann: Determinants of burnout. A longitudinal analysis based on billing data of SBK-insured persons in Germany (2020)
Christiane Behrens: Comparison of European infection control strategies using the example of measles prevention in Sweden, Germany and France. An analysis of measles vaccination rates and incidence between 2006 and 2020 (2020)
Alexandra Ernst: New clinical picture "Addictive Internet use" - Which factors are associated with it? An analysis of data from counseling seekers in the re:set! project Lower Saxony (2020)
Amelia Aquareta Mardiko: Patterns of Hand Hygiene Behavior in the Adult Population in Germany: A Data Analysis of the Representative Survey on Hygiene and Infection Control by the BZgA 2012 (2018)
Sandra Benedix: Evaluation of family physician-centered care in Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria using routine data from the KKH Kaufmännische Krankenkasse (2018)
Nora Laskowski: The relationship between post-traumatic stress disorder and shopping addiction in the population (2018)
Lena Bachus : Social inequality in the development of morbidity compression in stroke (2016)
Maren Mylius: Hospitalization of migrants without health insurance- An explorative study on inpatient care in Lower Saxony, Berlin and Hamburg (2015)
Rizky Indrameikha Sugianto: Does the utilization of "Health Check-Up 35" influence the risk of type 2 diabetes and acute myocardial infarction? A secondary data analysis using statutory health insurance data with respect to socioeconomic status (2013)
Kristina Kuhlmann: Prevalence of type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus: A comparison of survey and SHI data (2013)
Jan Fuge: Analysis of the validity of secondary data using the example of an evaluation of the German MS registry (2013)
Yang Liu: Development of the current health reform in China (2013)
Melanie von Wildenrath: Development of a prediction model for the prediction of inpatient readmissions for selected mental illnesses (2013)
Margarete Abrahamczik: Data quality as "correctness" of data - testing the suitability and application of selected quantifying quality indicators of the TMF guideline (2012)
Mercy Nyambura Maina: Smoking patterns among single mothers - the contribution of psychosocial stress and coping styles (2012)
Katrin Volkenand: The change in the quality of life of children and adolescents in mother-child Clinical Departments (2012)
Anna Nickel: Social Ascents and Descents in Germany and Health (2011)
Urs-Vito Albrecht: The forensic online consultation "Forensikon" in the child protection project of the Hannover Medical School - a qualitative and quantitative preliminary study (2010)
Ursula Schlanstedt-Jahn (Dr. med.): Utilization of oncological rehabilitation in women with breast cancer (2009)
Gabriele Röhrig : Statistical analysis of the rehabilitation behavior of carcinoma patients using the example of AOK Mettmann policyholders (2005)
Sophie Kühner: What do breast cancer patients know about their disease, late effects of therapy and aftercare? A comparison of self-help group members and non-members (2005)
Dagmar C. Villaroel- Gonzalez: Development of a questionnaire on knowledge about breast cancer, late effects of treatment and aftercare and testing using cognitive testing methods (2005)
Felix Wedegärtner : Medical assessor agreement in physical and psychological examination findings using the example of school entry examinations (2004)
Chantal Marie Kugel: Analysis of the health burdens of mothers in inpatient mother-child Clinical Departments, taking into account the children accompanying them - A quantitative-empirical analysis of the RessQu study 2018 (2022, Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts)
Tamana Sikander Nooristany: Changes in the socio-demographic characteristics and psychosocial stress of mothers in mother-child clinics (2021, Hannover University of Applied Sciences and Arts)
Johanna Weithe: Demographic change and employment in Germany. Development of subjective health under the influence of occupational autonomy (2017, Bachelor thesis at Bielefeld University, Faculty of Health Sciences)
Alexander Miething: Others' income, one's own fate: How income inequality, relative social position and social comparisons contribute to disparities in health (2014). PhD, jointly supervised with the Centre for Health Equity Studies (Stockholm)
Dominik Röding: Health lifestyles. An approach between structural and action theory: Regional study on the health behavior of the adult population in northeastern German rural communities (2012; Master's thesis at the Neubrandenburg University of Applied Sciences, Department of Health, Nursing, Management)
Anna Rosemann: Health-related quality of life and body satisfaction of overweight and obese children and adolescents (Dipl. Psych. 2012)
Kristina Kuhlmann: Effects of unemployment under different economic conditions on subjective health (2011; Bachelor's thesis in social sciences at Leibniz University Hannover)
Iris Nielsen: Social inequality and diabetes. Public Health study programmes at the University of Düsseldorf (2003)
Grace Micah: Social inequalities in diseases of children and adolescents. Studies with data from a statutory health insurance company. Master's thesis in sociology at the University of Düsseldorf (2000)
Noreen Dietrich: Development of a manual and a database of significant events for use in life event research. Diploma thesis in the study programmes General Documentation at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hannover (2000)
Frank Hensel (M.San., University of Düsseldorf, Graduate Program Public Health): Social structure and social support of HIV-infected persons in a university outpatient clinic (1999)