Jens-Uwe Niehoff

Jens-Uwe Niehoff (born January 31, 1947 in Perleberg ) is a German social medicine specialist , epidemiologist , medical sociologist , university professor and publicist .

Jens-Uwe Niehoff

Life

Niehoff studied human medicine from 1966 to 1972 at the Humboldt University in Berlin . Subsequently he trained in medical demography , medical sociology , epidemiological methodology of health services research continued and in the health system analysis. In 1977 he became a specialist in social hygiene and in the same year was awarded a doctorate in medicine- sociological methods in health services research. med. PhD . In 1983 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on the theory of epidemiological transition .

In 1989 he was appointed professor for social hygiene at the Charité . He is the last holder of a chair for social hygiene in Germany. In 1991 he was appointed director of the Institute for Social Hygiene. At his request, the research facility was renamed “Institute for Social Medicine and Epidemiology” at the same time.

In 1992 he worked as an expert for the Commission of the European Communities in Brussels. At the end of 1994 Niehoff left the Charité and did research and taught as a visiting scientist a. a. at the University of California Los Angeles , the Center for Health Administration Studies at the University of Chicago and the Department for Public Health at the University of Connecticut ( Hartford ).

From 1996 to 2012 he taught the field of social medicine at the Berlin School of Economics and Law . Since 1991, Niehoff has been the specialist head of further training to obtain the additional qualification in social medicine, initially on behalf of the Brandenburg State Medical Association , then temporarily also in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Saxony . In 2008 he was a co-founder of the non-profit SalusCon Academy for advanced training in the health sector . From 2011 to 2017 he was visiting professor at several Chinese universities.

Research areas

In 1977 the Medical Faculty assigned him the editorial task of preparing an overall development concept for the Charité for the tasks in medical care, research and teaching. His main research interests included empirical field studies on medical care profiles of general practitioners, the modeling of epidemiological transition processes, empirical studies on the socially conditioned modification of ontogenesis and lifespan, as well as studies on priority social prevention needs in the GDR . Further focal points are globally comparative health system analyzes , concept studies on relative prevention as well as acute medical care and disease sequelae management.

Publications (selection)

• Comments on the etiopathogenetic relevance of prenatal and early postnatal nutrition . Criticism of the studies by Prof. Dr. G. Dörner, Part 1–3, Berlin, 1980, expertise presented to the Medical Faculty of the Humboldt University Berlin and there in the archive.
• with F. Schneider: Risk factors and dilemmas of their evaluation. In: D. Borgers, M. Berger (Ed.): Cholesterol - Risk for Prevention and Health Policy. Blackwell-Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-89412-212-9 , pp. 76-84.
• with D. Borgers: The world health situation. In: World Problems, Global Challenges on the Threshold of the 21st Century. Series of publications by the Bavarian State Center for Political Education, 1995.
• Health assurance - health care - health management. Basics, goals, tasks, perspectives . Medical Scientific Publishing Company, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-939069-48-5 .
• with Waleed Abdul Wahab Al Ansari and M.-E. Niehoff .: Healthcare Management goes global. 1st edition. Saluscon-Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-9819813-0-8 .
• with W. Hoffmann and M.-E. Niehoff: Compendium of Social Medicine . Volume 1–10, 1st edition. SalusCon Akademie Verlag. Berlin 2018-2019:
  • Issue 1: An overview. ISBN 978-3-9819813-6-0 .
  • Book 2: Demographic Basics of Social Medicine. ISBN 978-3-9819813-8-4 .
  • Book 3: Epidemiological Basics of Social Medicine. ISBN 978-3-948267-00-1 .
  • Book 4: Basics of General Social Medicine. ISBN 978-3-948267-02-5 .
  • Book 5: Social Medicine and Health Economics. ISBN 978-3-948267-08-7 .
  • Book 6: Special Social Medicine. ISBN 978-3-9819813-2-2 .
  • Book 7: Social Medicine and Health Services Research. ISBN 978-3-9819813-4-6 .
  • Booklet 8: Social Prevention. ISBN 978-3-948267-04-9 .
  • Book 9: Health Care: Concepts and Developments. ISBN 978-3-948267-06-3 .

Editorships (selection)

• with Th. Elkeles, R. Rosenbrock and F. Schneider (eds.): Prevention and prophylaxis. Sigma-Verlag, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-89404-105-6 .
• with B. Braun: Social Medicine and Public Health: a dictionary on the basics of health security, health care, health management, control and regulation in the health system. 2nd Edition. Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 2010, ISBN 978-3-8329-4025-6 .
• Systematic social medicine. 3. Edition. UNI-Med Verlag Bremen, London / Boston 2011, ISBN 978-3-8374-1283-3 .
• with Liang Zhang and J. Breinlinger: Healthcare Management: The global Perspective . China, 2015, ISBN 978-7-03-042201-9 . (chinese, english)
• with W. Hoffmann and M.-E. Niehoff: Compendium of Social Medicine. Volume 1–10, 1st edition, Saluscon-Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2018/2019.

Web links

• Literature by and about Jens-Uwe Niehoff in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Jens-Uwe Niehoff in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• For publications by Jens-Uwe Niehoff see also: University Library in Berlin
• Publications by Jens-Uwe Niehoff see also: Library of the Science Center for Social Research Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ^ Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics at the Charité: History of Social Medicine in Berlin. Retrieved August 6, 2019 . 
2. ↑ SalusCon Academy Publisher: Jens-Uwe Niehoff. Retrieved August 6, 2019 .