Claus Wendt

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Claus Wendt (* 1968 ) is a German sociologist .

biography

Wendt studied political science, economics and sociology from 1991 to 1996 in the master’s course at Heidelberg University . From 1997 to 2000 Wendt was a research assistant in a project of the 4th EU framework program "Family and Welfare State in Europe" at the Universities of Mannheim and Roskilde and the Austrian Academy of Sciences . Until 2003 he did his doctorate in sociology at the University of Heidelberg with a comparison of the health systems of Germany, Austria, Denmark and Great Britain. He then held a postdoctoral position at the Bremen Collaborative Research Center in the project “Change in Statehood in Health Systems” and was a Senior Research Fellow and project manager at the Mannheim Center for European Social Research . In 2008 and 2009 he was a John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University and a Harkness / Bosch Fellow in Health Policy & Practice at the Harvard School of Public Health . In 2009 Wendt was appointed professor of sociology at the University of Siegen , where he heads the chair for sociology of health and the health system.

Fonts

  • Edited together with Ted Marmor: Reforming Healthcare Systems. Two volumes. Edward Elgar Publishing, Northampton, MA 2011, ISBN 978-1-84844-345-7 .
  • together with Monika Mischke and Michaela Pfeifer: Welfare States and Public Opinion: Perceptions of Healthcare Systems, Family Policy and Benefits for the Unemployed and Poor in Europe. Edward Elgar Publishing, Northampton, MA 2011, ISBN 978-1-84844-806-3 .
  • together with Heinz Rothgang, Mirella Cacace, Lorraine Frisina, Simone Grimmeisen, Achim Schmid: The State and Healthcare. Comparing OECD Countries. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2010, ISBN 978-0-230-00548-8 .
  • Health Insurance Or Health Care? The health systems of Germany, Austria, Denmark and Great Britain in comparison. 2nd completely revised edition. VS-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-15918-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME Wendt, Claus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1968