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Sociology of health and the health system

Department of Social Sciences


The Chair of Sociology of Health and Health Systems deals with age and health, health behavior and with welfare states and health systems in international comparison.

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Research profile

My research interests include international comparative health systems research, health care reforms, health sociology, comparative institutional analysis of the welfare state, inequality research and institutional theorization.

Main research areas

  • International comparative health systems research
  • Sociology of health
  • institutional theory
  • Political sociology
  • Comparative institutional analysis of the

Research priorities

 

2022-2025 Structural conditions of health care and public health interventions at the local level
2015-2017 Health Inequalities in European Welfare States (HiNews), funded by DFG-Norface
2012-2015 Project leader: Utilization of health care services by older people in Germany, DFG project HEALSEE
2010-2014 Project leader (with B. Ebbinghaus): Welfare State Support from Below: Linking Individual Attitudes and Organized Interests in Europe, SFB 884 subproject

 

Latest publications

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Book
2025

The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages

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The team

Frau Lisa Rauch, Frau Susanne Müller, Herr Torsten Schneider, Frau Eva Willis,

Lisa Rauch

Lisa Helena Rauch M.A.

Research assistant

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Lehrstuhl für Soziologie der Gesundheit und des Gesundheitssystems
(Prof. Dr. Claus Wendt)

Foto Torsten Schneider

Torsten Schneider M.A.

Research assistant
Personenbild Eva-Maria Willis

Eva-Maria Willis

Project employee

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