Christine Holmberg
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 108203 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Christine Holmberg |
| NOMBRES | Christine |
| APELLIDO | Holmberg |
| FIRMA | HOLMBERG C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Potsdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8852-4620 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
What can we learn from an intersectionality-informed description of study participants? Results from the German National Cohort
Our results showed that heterogeneity within social categories can be revealed by applying the concept of intersectionality when comparing study participants with an external population. This way, an intersectionality-informed approach contributes to describing social complexity among study participants more precisely. Furthermore, results can be used to reduce participation barriers in a more targeted way
Opportunities, challenges, and future directions for the public social participation of older adults living in a rural region in Germany
Did the prevalence of depressive symptoms change during the Covid-19 pandemic? A multilevel analysis on longitudinal data from healthcare workers
BACKGROUND: Healthcare workers (HCW) are at high risk to develop mental health problems during the COVID-19 pandemic because of additional work load, perceived stress, and exposure to patients with COVID-19. Currently, there are few studies on change over time in the prevalence of depressive symptoms during pandemic start among HCW. Thus, the aims of the current study were to examine whether depressive symptoms increased during the pandemic and w…
Crafting Ethnographic Relationships During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Germany Using Voice-Based Technologies
Drawing on a two-year ethnography of care practices during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany, we discuss the affordances of voice-based technologies (smartphones, basic mobile phones, and landline telephones) in collecting ethnographic data and crafting relationships with participants. We illustrate how such technologies allowed us to move with participants, eased data collection through the social expectations around their use, and reoriented our…
Doing isolation – Caring Citizens. A cross-country comparative analysis of patient experiences with isolation practices during the early phase of the Covid-19 pandemic
The aim of this article is to investigate isolation experiences of individuals affected by Covid-19 and explore how care practices were enacted or upheld under the particular policies of the pandemic. Conceptually we draw upon Foucault's notion of biopolitics and scholarship on ‘care practices’ and ‘carescapes’. We are interested in how theoretical ideas such as ‘containing the virus’ or ‘flattening the curve,’ as part of policies of ‘pandemic ma…
Navigating responsible bio-political citizenship
This paper aims to further understanding of discourses of responsible bio-political citizenship during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. This was an interview-based qualitative study comparing experiences of 103 people who were ill with Covid for the first time across 2020 in Japan, Germany, the USA and the UK. Comparative thematic analysis explored discussion of responsibility in relation to Covid illness, experiences of social fracture a…
Sharing uncertainty
The early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic generated profound global uncertainty that disrupted health systems. This paper examines uncertainty about Covid-19 from the perspective of patients who sought clinical help in Spain, the UK, the USA, Brazil and Germany in 2020. We conduct a narrative analysis to explore how patients sought to involve health care teams in addressing the ontological and epistemological uncertainties of Covid illness. Patie…
Investigating people’s attitudes towards participating in longitudinal health research
Our findings suggest that for participants, health research constitutes a site of distinction in the sense of making a difference and being distinct or distinguishable, whereas non-participants inhabited an orientation towards science that reflected their subjective marginalisation through science. No clear relationship can thereby be presumed between social location and a particular attitude towards study participation; rather, such attitudes tr…
Social health
The social sciences have long shown that health is not born of pure biology, empirically (re)centred the social and material causes of disease, and affirmed the subjective experiences of disease. Disputed both in popular and academic discourses, social health has variously attempted to stress the social aspects of health. Existing conceptions remain analytically limited as they are predominantly used as descriptors for populational health. This a…
Shade trees for the next generation’
Epidemiological cohort studies are a central research design in public health which appeal to, and can reinforce, specific ideas of the nation, sociality and the 'good' citizen. The concept of publics, the sociology of expectations and a co-productionist framework provide the theoretical frame to investigate how popular representations of two cohort studies, German National Cohort and UK Biobank, attempt to enrol a concerned public. By constructi…
Representation in participatory health care decision‐making
CONTEXT: The involvement of lay people in health care decision-making processes is now the norm in many countries. However, one important aspect of participation has not received sufficient attention in the past and remains underexplored: representation. OBJECTIVE: This paper explores the question of how public participation efforts in collective health care decision-making processes can attempt to aim for legitimate representation so that those …
Trust, medical expertise and humaneness
BACKGROUND: Understanding peoples' evaluations of their health care is important to ensure appropriate health-care services. OBJECTIVES: To understand what factors influence peoples' satisfaction with care and how interpersonal trust is established between doctors and cancer patients in Germany. DESIGN: A narrative interview study that included women with a diagnosis of breast cancer and men with a diagnosis of prostate cancer. A question-focused…
The Health Status and Healthcare Utilization of Ethnic Germans in Russia
Ethnic German resettlers from the former Soviet Union are one of the largest migrant groups in Germany. In comparison with the majority of the German population, resettlers exhibit worse subjective health and utilize fewer preventive measures. However, there is little evidence on health among ethnic Germans who remained in Russia. Hence, the objective of this study was to determine the differences in subjective health, diabetes, smoking, and util…
Classification tree analysis for an intersectionality-informed identification of population groups with non-daily vegetable intake
Public health monitoring and reporting with an intersectionality-informed and gender-equitable perspective might benefit from an integration of further sex/gender related aspects into quantitative analyses in order to detect population subgroups most affected by non-DVI
Development and Psychometric Properties of a Questionnaire Assessing Self-Reported Generic Health Literacy in Adolescence
Health literacy is a promising approach to promoting health and preventing disease among children and adolescents. Promoting health literacy in early stages of life could contribute to reducing health inequalities. However, it is difficult to identify concrete needs for action as there are few age-adjusted measures to assess generic health literacy in young people. Our aim was to develop a multidimensional measure of health literacy in German to …
Discussing the effects of prostate cancer beyond biographical disruption and new normalcy
The concept of biographical disruption has been used to explain the experience of a cancer diagnosis. Studies on cancer experience increasingly suggest that people diagnosed in older age may not have such disruptive experiences. Prostate cancer is diagnosed more often in older men and is often considered a disease of old age; furthermore, the signs of illness in prostate cancer and the signs of ageing might become convoluted. With this in mind, t…
Courtesy work
Accountability has become a buzzword in recent years, applied in such disparate fields as education, academia, international politics and economics. For cohort studies, epidemiological literature and guidelines put forward several ideals to assure the quality of the generated data to make it accountable. Social scientific scholarship in turn has shown that in practice, such demands can lead to tensions and needs for balance 'on the ground'. We ta…
Taking Responsibility
Patient-related diagnostic delay has been established as an analytical category in cancer research. This category has come under critique because it postulates linear cause-and-effect explanations of delayed care-seeking. These explanations are based on a one-dimensional idea of causality that neglects the processual character and the contextual situatedness of bodily experiences and care-seeking decisions. Using a notion of causality that is bot…
Gaining control over breast cancer risk
Concepts of disease risk and its management are central to processes of medicalisation and pharmaceuticalisation. Through a narrative perspective, this paper aims to understand how such macro-level developments may (or may not) be experienced individually, and how an algorithm that is used for recruitment into a clinical trial may structure individual notions of being 'at risk' and 'in need of treatment'. We interviewed 31 women participating in …
Biographical similarities between spiritual healers and their clients in Germany - a qualitative study
Spiritual healers in contemporary Germany comprise a heterogeneous and growing group, yet little data exists about them. Therefore, one aim of this study was to learn about which biographical aspects and events were important to the process of becoming a healer and which biographical aspects drove clients to consult a healer. The study was based on semi-structured interviews combined with participant observations. All data were recorded digitally…
Symptomization and triggering processes
Making Predictions
Statistics constitute the social universe of which they are gathered. The foundation necessary to develop quantified knowledge about society is the population. If quantified knowledge changes society, the question arises on how individuals become to be represented as population. The population has to be extracted from individuals in a process that we call "populationisation." This encompasses the development of the individual into a segment of a …
Perceived challenges to public health in Central and Eastern Europe
To reduce the burden of disease across Europe, closer collaboration of countries across Europe seems important in order to learn from each other. A more credible scientific basis for effective public health interventions is urgently needed. The monitoring of health trends is crucial to evaluate the impact of public health programmes
Individualised risk estimation and the nature of prevention
Statistical risk models hold substantial promise for the practice of cancer prevention by helping to identify high risk populations and subsequently guide decisions about surveillance, further testing and treatments. They have come under criticism for creating new categories of disease-free but ‘at risk’ individuals. We analysed the debate over the interpretation of risk estimates to assess the importance of these models for the practice of cance…
Making Predictions
Statistics constitute the social universe of which they are gathered. The foundation necessary to develop quantified knowledge about society is the population. If quantified knowledge changes society, the question arises on how individuals become to be represented as population. The population has to be extracted from individuals in a process that we call "populationisation." This encompasses the development of the individual into a segment of a …
Discussing the effects of prostate cancer beyond biographical disruption and new normalcy
The concept of biographical disruption has been used to explain the experience of a cancer diagnosis. Studies on cancer experience increasingly suggest that people diagnosed in older age may not have such disruptive experiences. Prostate cancer is diagnosed more often in older men and is often considered a disease of old age; furthermore, the signs of illness in prostate cancer and the signs of ageing might become convoluted. With this in mind, t…
Courtesy work
Accountability has become a buzzword in recent years, applied in such disparate fields as education, academia, international politics and economics. For cohort studies, epidemiological literature and guidelines put forward several ideals to assure the quality of the generated data to make it accountable. Social scientific scholarship in turn has shown that in practice, such demands can lead to tensions and needs for balance 'on the ground'. We ta…
Symptomization and triggering processes
Taking Responsibility
Patient-related diagnostic delay has been established as an analytical category in cancer research. This category has come under critique because it postulates linear cause-and-effect explanations of delayed care-seeking. These explanations are based on a one-dimensional idea of causality that neglects the processual character and the contextual situatedness of bodily experiences and care-seeking decisions. Using a notion of causality that is bot…
Gaining control over breast cancer risk
Concepts of disease risk and its management are central to processes of medicalisation and pharmaceuticalisation. Through a narrative perspective, this paper aims to understand how such macro-level developments may (or may not) be experienced individually, and how an algorithm that is used for recruitment into a clinical trial may structure individual notions of being 'at risk' and 'in need of treatment'. We interviewed 31 women participating in …
Social health
The social sciences have long shown that health is not born of pure biology, empirically (re)centred the social and material causes of disease, and affirmed the subjective experiences of disease. Disputed both in popular and academic discourses, social health has variously attempted to stress the social aspects of health. Existing conceptions remain analytically limited as they are predominantly used as descriptors for populational health. This a…
Biographical similarities between spiritual healers and their clients in Germany - a qualitative study
Spiritual healers in contemporary Germany comprise a heterogeneous and growing group, yet little data exists about them. Therefore, one aim of this study was to learn about which biographical aspects and events were important to the process of becoming a healer and which biographical aspects drove clients to consult a healer. The study was based on semi-structured interviews combined with participant observations. All data were recorded digitally…
Individualised risk estimation and the nature of prevention
Statistical risk models hold substantial promise for the practice of cancer prevention by helping to identify high risk populations and subsequently guide decisions about surveillance, further testing and treatments. They have come under criticism for creating new categories of disease-free but ‘at risk’ individuals. We analysed the debate over the interpretation of risk estimates to assess the importance of these models for the practice of cance…
Perceived challenges to public health in Central and Eastern Europe
To reduce the burden of disease across Europe, closer collaboration of countries across Europe seems important in order to learn from each other. A more credible scientific basis for effective public health interventions is urgently needed. The monitoring of health trends is crucial to evaluate the impact of public health programmes
Making Predictions
Statistics constitute the social universe of which they are gathered. The foundation necessary to develop quantified knowledge about society is the population. If quantified knowledge changes society, the question arises on how individuals become to be represented as population. The population has to be extracted from individuals in a process that we call "populationisation." This encompasses the development of the individual into a segment of a …
Symptomization and triggering processes
Gaining control over breast cancer risk
Concepts of disease risk and its management are central to processes of medicalisation and pharmaceuticalisation. Through a narrative perspective, this paper aims to understand how such macro-level developments may (or may not) be experienced individually, and how an algorithm that is used for recruitment into a clinical trial may structure individual notions of being 'at risk' and 'in need of treatment'. We interviewed 31 women participating in …
Biographical similarities between spiritual healers and their clients in Germany - a qualitative study
Spiritual healers in contemporary Germany comprise a heterogeneous and growing group, yet little data exists about them. Therefore, one aim of this study was to learn about which biographical aspects and events were important to the process of becoming a healer and which biographical aspects drove clients to consult a healer. The study was based on semi-structured interviews combined with participant observations. All data were recorded digitally…
Taking Responsibility
Patient-related diagnostic delay has been established as an analytical category in cancer research. This category has come under critique because it postulates linear cause-and-effect explanations of delayed care-seeking. These explanations are based on a one-dimensional idea of causality that neglects the processual character and the contextual situatedness of bodily experiences and care-seeking decisions. Using a notion of causality that is bot…
Courtesy work
Accountability has become a buzzword in recent years, applied in such disparate fields as education, academia, international politics and economics. For cohort studies, epidemiological literature and guidelines put forward several ideals to assure the quality of the generated data to make it accountable. Social scientific scholarship in turn has shown that in practice, such demands can lead to tensions and needs for balance 'on the ground'. We ta…
Development and Psychometric Properties of a Questionnaire Assessing Self-Reported Generic Health Literacy in Adolescence
Health literacy is a promising approach to promoting health and preventing disease among children and adolescents. Promoting health literacy in early stages of life could contribute to reducing health inequalities. However, it is difficult to identify concrete needs for action as there are few age-adjusted measures to assess generic health literacy in young people. Our aim was to develop a multidimensional measure of health literacy in German to …
Discussing the effects of prostate cancer beyond biographical disruption and new normalcy
The concept of biographical disruption has been used to explain the experience of a cancer diagnosis. Studies on cancer experience increasingly suggest that people diagnosed in older age may not have such disruptive experiences. Prostate cancer is diagnosed more often in older men and is often considered a disease of old age; furthermore, the signs of illness in prostate cancer and the signs of ageing might become convoluted. With this in mind, t…
Trust, medical expertise and humaneness
BACKGROUND: Understanding peoples' evaluations of their health care is important to ensure appropriate health-care services. OBJECTIVES: To understand what factors influence peoples' satisfaction with care and how interpersonal trust is established between doctors and cancer patients in Germany. DESIGN: A narrative interview study that included women with a diagnosis of breast cancer and men with a diagnosis of prostate cancer. A question-focused…
The Health Status and Healthcare Utilization of Ethnic Germans in Russia
Ethnic German resettlers from the former Soviet Union are one of the largest migrant groups in Germany. In comparison with the majority of the German population, resettlers exhibit worse subjective health and utilize fewer preventive measures. However, there is little evidence on health among ethnic Germans who remained in Russia. Hence, the objective of this study was to determine the differences in subjective health, diabetes, smoking, and util…
Classification tree analysis for an intersectionality-informed identification of population groups with non-daily vegetable intake
Public health monitoring and reporting with an intersectionality-informed and gender-equitable perspective might benefit from an integration of further sex/gender related aspects into quantitative analyses in order to detect population subgroups most affected by non-DVI
Representation in participatory health care decision‐making
CONTEXT: The involvement of lay people in health care decision-making processes is now the norm in many countries. However, one important aspect of participation has not received sufficient attention in the past and remains underexplored: representation. OBJECTIVE: This paper explores the question of how public participation efforts in collective health care decision-making processes can attempt to aim for legitimate representation so that those …
Doing isolation – Caring Citizens. A cross-country comparative analysis of patient experiences with isolation practices during the early phase of the Covid-19 pandemic
The aim of this article is to investigate isolation experiences of individuals affected by Covid-19 and explore how care practices were enacted or upheld under the particular policies of the pandemic. Conceptually we draw upon Foucault's notion of biopolitics and scholarship on ‘care practices’ and ‘carescapes’. We are interested in how theoretical ideas such as ‘containing the virus’ or ‘flattening the curve,’ as part of policies of ‘pandemic ma…
Navigating responsible bio-political citizenship
This paper aims to further understanding of discourses of responsible bio-political citizenship during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. This was an interview-based qualitative study comparing experiences of 103 people who were ill with Covid for the first time across 2020 in Japan, Germany, the USA and the UK. Comparative thematic analysis explored discussion of responsibility in relation to Covid illness, experiences of social fracture a…
Sharing uncertainty
The early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic generated profound global uncertainty that disrupted health systems. This paper examines uncertainty about Covid-19 from the perspective of patients who sought clinical help in Spain, the UK, the USA, Brazil and Germany in 2020. We conduct a narrative analysis to explore how patients sought to involve health care teams in addressing the ontological and epistemological uncertainties of Covid illness. Patie…
Investigating people’s attitudes towards participating in longitudinal health research
Our findings suggest that for participants, health research constitutes a site of distinction in the sense of making a difference and being distinct or distinguishable, whereas non-participants inhabited an orientation towards science that reflected their subjective marginalisation through science. No clear relationship can thereby be presumed between social location and a particular attitude towards study participation; rather, such attitudes tr…
Social health
The social sciences have long shown that health is not born of pure biology, empirically (re)centred the social and material causes of disease, and affirmed the subjective experiences of disease. Disputed both in popular and academic discourses, social health has variously attempted to stress the social aspects of health. Existing conceptions remain analytically limited as they are predominantly used as descriptors for populational health. This a…
Shade trees for the next generation’
Epidemiological cohort studies are a central research design in public health which appeal to, and can reinforce, specific ideas of the nation, sociality and the 'good' citizen. The concept of publics, the sociology of expectations and a co-productionist framework provide the theoretical frame to investigate how popular representations of two cohort studies, German National Cohort and UK Biobank, attempt to enrol a concerned public. By constructi…
Did the prevalence of depressive symptoms change during the Covid-19 pandemic? A multilevel analysis on longitudinal data from healthcare workers
BACKGROUND: Healthcare workers (HCW) are at high risk to develop mental health problems during the COVID-19 pandemic because of additional work load, perceived stress, and exposure to patients with COVID-19. Currently, there are few studies on change over time in the prevalence of depressive symptoms during pandemic start among HCW. Thus, the aims of the current study were to examine whether depressive symptoms increased during the pandemic and w…
Crafting Ethnographic Relationships During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Germany Using Voice-Based Technologies
Drawing on a two-year ethnography of care practices during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany, we discuss the affordances of voice-based technologies (smartphones, basic mobile phones, and landline telephones) in collecting ethnographic data and crafting relationships with participants. We illustrate how such technologies allowed us to move with participants, eased data collection through the social expectations around their use, and reoriented our…
What can we learn from an intersectionality-informed description of study participants? Results from the German National Cohort
Our results showed that heterogeneity within social categories can be revealed by applying the concept of intersectionality when comparing study participants with an external population. This way, an intersectionality-informed approach contributes to describing social complexity among study participants more precisely. Furthermore, results can be used to reduce participation barriers in a more targeted way
Opportunities, challenges, and future directions for the public social participation of older adults living in a rural region in Germany
Medicine (19 obras) · Sociology (19 obras) · Psychology (14 obras) · Political science (13 obras) · Health care (9 obras) · Disease (8 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Geography (6 obras) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (6 obras) · Nursing (6 obras)