Oliver Razum
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 123724 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Oliver Razum |
| NOMBRES | Oliver |
| APELLIDO | Razum |
| FIRMA | RAZUM O |
| AFILIACIONES | Bielefeld University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1244-7649 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 66 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 60 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 65 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Medical rehabilitation for persons with pre-existing disabilities
Despite the goals for health and rehabilitation under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, individuals with disabilities face higher illness rates, leading to increased health care needs including medical rehabilitation. However, limited evidence exists on targeted rehabilitation among people with pre-existing disabilities who require medical rehabilitation due to a secondary illness, comorbidity, or accident.…
Polio vaccination campaigns in conflicts
In conflict settings, public health interventions such as vaccination campaigns and improvements in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) could benefit all parties involved. However, while polio vaccination campaigns frequently succeed in securing humanitarian pauses, WASH initiatives attempting to improve safe water supply and sewage disposal rarely achieve the same outcome. Using the Israel-Gaza conflict as an example, we analyze the factors co…
A questionnaire for a conceptual framework and interdisciplinary public health research using the Delphi technique—development and validation
Background: The Delphi technique has become established in public health research, yet there is a lack of methodological standards in questionnaire development. We here demonstrate how the Delphi technique can be used in an interdisciplinary public health topic for framework development, and we highlight methodological challenges and possible solutions. Methods: We developed the questionnaire through a comprehensive literature review and the gene…
Regional Covid-19 measures and effects on subjective well-being in Germany
Background COVID-19 measures in Germany varied during the pandemic, and it seems natural that in addition to factors such as incidence, health system capacity, etc., these interventions and their social and economic consequences had an impact on the evolution of the population’s well-being. Since the beginning of the pandemic, there has been a suspicion that the health burden would fall mainly on population groups with a lower socio-economic stat…
How does a recent gender norms scale perform? Exploratory factor analyses among adolescents in Ethiopia and Bangladesh
Inequitable gender norms shape adolescents’ perceptions and behaviours, increasing the risk for adverse health outcomes as adults. However, there is a lack of reliable scales to measure these norms. The Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE) project proposes a scale for adolescents aged 10–19 years considered vulnerable, (i) distinguishing between individual-level gender attitudes and community-level gender norms (2 factors), and (ii) cat…
Racism in public health authorities–A scoping review and situational analysis
Racism is a structural determinant of health. While racism in health care services is increasingly well-researched, public health services and public health authorities (PHA) have been neglected as institutional contexts. Yet, PHA play an essential role in protecting and promoting population health at a local and national level. To help fill this research gap, we mapped the academic discourse on racism in PHA with a narrative scoping review. We s…
Post-migration stress mediates associations between potentially traumatic peri-migration experiences and mental health among Middle Eastern refugees in Germany
On their way to host countries, refugees are often exposed to severe adversity, including cumulative experiences of fraud, extortion, robbery, detention, and shipwrecks, as well as prolonged, life-threatening small boat crossings. However, little research has examined the long-term impact of such peri-migration stressors on subsequent stress and mental health after arrival. This study explored how cumulative exposure to potentially traumatic even…
Universities should lead on the plant-based dietary transition
As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change1Shukla PR Skea J Calvo Buendia E et al.Climate change and land: an IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems.https://www.ipcc.ch/srccl/Date accessed: April 7, 2023Google Scholar and the EAT–Lancet Commission2Willett W Rockström J Loken B et al.Food in the Anthropocene: the…
Public Health and War
Association (APHA) placed war "among the most important public health problems of the last 100 years," with "little evidence that its importance is waning
Refugee Camps in Europe and Australia
An Analytical Framework for Assessing Types of Refugee Accommodation from a Health Perspective
Die Wohnsituation ist eine wichtige soziale Determinante der Gesundheit. Flüchtlinge werden auf sehr unterschiedliche Weise untergebracht. Die Messung gesundheitsrelevanter Eigenschaften von Unterkünften ist eine methodische Herausforderung. In diesem Artikel entwickeln wir einen Rahmen zur Beschreibung gesundheitsrelevanter Aspekte von Flüchtlingsunterkünften. Damit schaffen wir eine Grundlage für Studien, die untersuchen, wie sich verschiedene …
Racism in public health services
Despite racism and its impact on health inequities being increasingly studied in health care settings, racism in public health services has so far been neglected in public health research. Studying racism in public health services provides many opportunities to explore the relationship between racism and health protection. We identify several research themes to be explored on (1) non-stigmatizing and community-driven risk communication, (2) surve…
Facilitating access to medicines and continuity of care for Ukrainian refugees
Aljadeeah S, Michielsen J, Ravinetto R, et al. Facilitating access to medicines and continuity of care for Ukrainian refugees: exceptional response or the promise of more inclusive healthcare for all migrants? BMJ Global Health . 2022;7(8): e010327
Why Othering should be considered in research on health inequalities
Othering is relevant to public health as an analytical lens that helps to understand the link between minority status and health inequalities.•To investigate health inequalities caused by Othering, it is necessary to include the semantic-symbolic construction of Others.•Othering operates as a discursive practice and occurs on multiple levels.•Research on Othering requires consideration of intersectionality and power structures derived from social…
How schools in Germany shape and impact the lives of adolescent refugees in terms of mental health and social mobility
Schools are relevant settings for supporting refugee adolescents' mental health. As education and migration are important social determinants of health, we aim to integrate the qualitative findings of our mixed-methods study into a broader discussion regarding the role of schools and the potential effects on refugee adolescents' lives and mental health, as well as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this article, we present the findings of sc…
Global health and health security – conflicting concepts for achieving stability through health
Global health has become fashionable and an important topic on the international policy agenda. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, cross-border infectious diseases had provoked a great deal of media and public interest, academic research and foreign-policy agendas. This paper analyses the relevance of health security in global health. It stresses global health as an explicitly political concept taking into consideration existing inequalities and …
Association between housing and health of refugees and asylum seekers in Germany
We demonstrate that unfavourable conditions cluster in collective accommodation with negative outcomes for mental health but not for physical health. We also found health disparities across types of private accommodation. We conclude that housing plays a role in the production of health inequalities in ASR but needs to be assessed in a differentiated, multidimensional way
Decomposing intersectional inequalities in subjective physical and mental health by sex, gendered practices and immigration status in a representative panel study from Germany
Patterns of physical and mental health vary along the intersectional axes of sex, gendered practices and immigration status. These findings highlight the relevance of intersections in describing population health statuses and emphasise the need to take them into account when designing public health policies aiming at effectively reducing health inequalities
LGBTQI + Refugees’ and Asylum Seekers’ Mental Health
Introduction LGBTQI + refugees and asylum seekers experience enormous distress during their lifespan. Ill-effects of socio-cultural stigma, systemic violence, and forced migration due to sexual orientation, gender identity or expressions, and sex characteristics ( SOGIESC ) are not their only challenge. The cumbersome asylum process in host countries negatively affects their mental health and well-being. The objective of this systematic review wa…
Using agent-based modelling to test hypotheses on the role of neighbourhood social mechanisms in the development of small-area health inequalities
BACKGROUND: Small-area health inequalities may originate from differentials in the spatial distribution of environmental stressors on health. The role played by neighbourhood social mechanisms on small-area health inequalities is difficult to evaluate. We demonstrate that agent-based modelling (ABM) is a useful technique to overcome existing limitations. It allows testing hypotheses that social contagion has the potential to modify the effects of…
Adequate Utilization of Emergency Services in Germany
Background: The role of emergency services (ES) is to provide round-the-clock acute care. In recent years, inadequate use of ES has been internationally thematised because of overcrowding and the associated cost. Evidence shows that migrant populations tend to use more ES than non-migrant but it remains to show if there is a differential in inadequacy. Method: Quantitative data from consecutive patients visiting three ES in Berlin (hospital-based…
Covid-19 in Germany and China
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic shows variable dynamics in WHO Regions, with lowest disease burden in the Western-Pacific Region. While China has been able to rapidly eliminate transmission of SARS-CoV-2, Germany – as well as most of Europe and the Americas – is struggling with high numbers of cases and deaths.Objective: We analyse COVID-19 epidemiology and control strategies in China and in Germany, two countries which have chosen profoundly d…
Thoughts about health and patient-reported outcomes among people with diabetes mellitus
Thoughts about health are a part of everyday life for a substantial number of people with diabetes. Surprisingly, even positive thoughts are associated with poorer HRQoL in our study. Further research within the DRM paradigm is needed to understand how thoughts about health may affect people's (assessment of) state of health. Thoughts about health should be considered in diabetes education and patient counselling with a view to preventing and tre…
A method to define the relevant ego-centred spatial scale for the assessment of neighbourhood effects
The individual spatial correlation approach provides much stronger evidence of spatial effects than the multilevel approach even for small administrative units. Spatial correlation structure offers new possibilities to assess the relevant spatial scale for health. Stronger correlation structure seen for BMI may be due to neighbourhood socioeconomic conditions and processes like social norms at work in the immediate neighbourhood
The role of education and migration background in explaining differences in folic acid supplementation intake in pregnancy
Objective: Official German recommendations advise women to start taking folic acid supplementation (FAS) before conception and continue during the first pregnancy trimester to lower the risk of birth defects. Women from lower socio-economic background and ethnic minorities tend to be less likely to take FAS in other European countries. As little is known about the determinants of FAS in Germany, we aimed to investigate the association between FAS…
Health, Wealth or Family Ties? Why Turkish Work Migrants Return from Germany
In the 1960s and 1970s, hundreds of thousands of Turkish workers migrated to Germany. Some settled there, others returned to Turkey after a few years. To explore how the experience of life between two cultures and in transnational families affected the decision to return, we conducted focus-group sessions with male returnees in Turkey who had spent varying lengths of time in Germany. Return was rarely based on purely economic or health-related mo…
Pathways between perceived discrimination and health among immigrants
In spite of anti-discrimination laws, the health of immigrants in Germany is negatively affected by perceived discrimination. Differential exposure to perceived discrimination may be seen as a mechanism contributing to the emergence of health inequalities in Germany
LGBTQI + Refugees’ and Asylum Seekers’ Mental Health
Introduction LGBTQI + refugees and asylum seekers experience enormous distress during their lifespan. Ill-effects of socio-cultural stigma, systemic violence, and forced migration due to sexual orientation, gender identity or expressions, and sex characteristics ( SOGIESC ) are not their only challenge. The cumbersome asylum process in host countries negatively affects their mental health and well-being. The objective of this systematic review wa…
Measuring transnationality of immigrants in Germany
The scope of immigrants' transnational ties and the relationship to their social position is subject to a controversial debate that suggests a dualistic picture. On the one hand, globalization theorists argue that an elite of highly educated and economically most successful professionals intensively engages in and benefits from transnationality. On the other hand, most scholars in migration and assimilation studies hold that it is the most underp…
Restricted entitlements and access to health care for refugees and immigrants
Social disparities in Disease Management Programmes for coronary heart disease in Germany
BACKGROUND: Disease Management Programmes (DMPs) aim to improve effectiveness and equity of care but may suffer from selective enrolment. We analysed social disparities in DMP enrolment among elderly patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) in Germany, taking into account contextual effects at municipality and primary care practice levels. METHODS: Cross-sectional analysis of effects of educational attainment and regional deprivation on physici…
Assessing the effect of regional deprivation on mortality avoiding compositional bias
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: We assessed the effect of regional deprivation on individual mortality by making use of a natural experiment: we followed up ethnic German resettlers from Former Soviet Union countries who were quasi-randomly distributed across the socioeconomically heterogeneous counties of Germany's federal state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW). METHODS: We used data from the retrospective cohort study 'AMOR' on the mortality of resettler…
Millennium Development Goals and Health
The MDGs has been carved out of the UN Millennium Declaration adopted in the fifty-fifth session of the UN General Assembly in September, 2000. Significantly, the MDGs has a bias towards health, education and empowerment. This could be construed as a positive move in international policy as far as the development agenda is concerned. But a closer look at the strategies show that there are several roadblocks towards achieving these goals. The majo…
A long story made too short
The story of epidemiologists and surrogate variables is one of a classic love–hate relationship. Epidemiologists love surrogates because many studies would not be possible without them. When events are rare or the time between an intervention and the outcome is long, surrogate variables are used to fill the gap. Epidemiologists hate surrogate variables because they introduce an additional step in the chain between intervention (or exposure) and o…
Low overall mortality of Turkish residents in Germany persists and extends into a second generation
objective To test the hypothesis that as a minority with lower socio‐economic status, Turkish residents in Germany might experience a higher mortality than Germans. methods All‐cause mortality rates by age group and sex of Turkish and German adults for the time period 1980–94 were calculated from death registry data and mid‐year population estimates. results The age‐adjusted mortality rate (per 100000) of Turkish males aged 25–65 years resident i…
The ‘healthy migrant effect’–not merely a fallacy of inaccurate denominator figures
Sir—Ringbäck Weitoft et al.1 present intriguing evidence indicating that the lower mortality among immigrants compared to the host population in register studies could largely be explained by inaccurate denominator figures. Their findings suggest that immigrants to Sweden, particularly those from Turkey and Southern Europe, frequently remain registered on the national population registry even after returning to their home countries. Thus, an infl…
Deteriorating health satisfaction among immigrants from Eastern Europe to Germany
BACKGROUND: Migrants from Eastern Europe constitute more than 5% of Germany's population. Since population health in their countries of origin is poor their health status upon arrival may be worse than that of the native-born German population (hypothesis H1). As a minority, they may be socio-economically disadvantaged (H2), and their health status may deteriorate quickly (H3). METHODS: We compared data from 1995 and 2000 for immigrants from East…
Health, Wealth or Family Ties? Why Turkish Work Migrants Return from Germany
In the 1960s and 1970s, hundreds of thousands of Turkish workers migrated to Germany. Some settled there, others returned to Turkey after a few years. To explore how the experience of life between two cultures and in transnational families affected the decision to return, we conducted focus-group sessions with male returnees in Turkey who had spent varying lengths of time in Germany. Return was rarely based on purely economic or health-related mo…
All-cause and Cardiovascular mortality among ethnic German immigrants from the Former Soviet Union
In contrast to our hypothesis on migrants' health, overall and CVD mortality among Aussiedler is lower than in Germany's general population. Possible explanations are a substantially better health status of Aussiedler in the FSU as compared to the local average, a higher perceived socio-economic status of Aussiedler in Germany, or selection effects. SMR differences between substrata need further exploration, and risk factor data are needed
Millennium Development Goals and Health
The MDGs has been carved out of the UN Millennium Declaration adopted in the fifty-fifth session of the UN General Assembly in September, 2000. Significantly, the MDGs has a bias towards health, education and empowerment. This could be construed as a positive move in international policy as far as the development agenda is concerned. But a closer look at the strategies show that there are several roadblocks towards achieving these goals. The majo…
Health inequalities in Germany
Our analysis does not support the assumption that in Germany cardiovascular risk factors were to a large extent associated with income inequality at regional level
Cancer patterns among children of Turkish descent in Germany
No major differences were found in cancer patterns among cases of Turkish descent compared to all other cases in the GCCR. Slightly higher proportions of systemic malignant diseases indicate that analytical studies involving migrants may help investigating the causes of such cancers
Regionale Ungleichverteilung von Gesundheit und ihre Determinanten
DEUTSCH: Die regionale Gleichwertigkeit der Lebensverhältnisse ist ein sozialpolitisches Leitprinzip in Deutschland. Während sich bei einem Ost-West-Vergleich Lebensverhältnisse und gesundheitliche Situation tendenziell angleichen, zeigen sich unterhalb dieser großräumigen Entitäten erhebliche Disparitäten. Diese haben mit großer Wahrscheinlichkeit Auswirkungen auf die Gesundheit der jeweiligen Bevölkerung. Die Analyse daraus resultierender gesun…
Changes in smoking prevalence among first- and second-generation Turkish migrants in Germany – an analysis of the 2005 Microcensus
We present the first representative data on changes in the prevalence of a risk factor for many chronic diseases among Turkish migrants in Germany. Male Turkish migrants (with a high level of education) showed a decrease over the generations while smoking prevalences of female Turkish migrants increased. In the second generation, prevalences partly converged with those of the German reference population or were even higher. Our hypothesis - that …
Imported risk' or 'health transition'? Smoking prevalence among ethnic German immigrants from the Former Soviet Union by duration of stay in Germany - analysis of microcensus data
This is the first study estimating the smoking prevalence among resettlers by duration of stay. The results support the hypothesis that resettlers brought different smoking habits from their countries of origin shortly after migration. The observed convergence of the smoking habits with increasing duration of stay is in line with the hypothesis of migration as 'health transition'. However, due to the cross-sectional design of the study, further r…
Prevention among immigrants
Taking the example of Germany, a need exists for prevention programs that include (migrant sensitive) and specifically address (migrant specific) migrants. These should be of sufficient scale, evidence-based, sustainable and evaluated at regular intervals
Time trends in cardiovascular disease mortality in Russia and Germany from 1980 to 2007 - are there migration effects
The effects on CVD mortality rates due to migration in Germany and Russia were smaller than those due to secular economical changes. However, migration should still be considered as a factor influencing national mortality trends
The impact of regional and neighbourhood deprivation on physical health in Germany
This study highlights the difference regional and in particular neighbourhood deprivation make to the physical health of individuals in Germany. The results support the argument that specific neighbourhood exposures serve as an intermediary step between deprivation and health. As people with a low socioeconomic status were more likely to be exposed to unfavourable neighbourhood characteristics these conditions plausibly contribute towards generat…
A long story made too short
The story of epidemiologists and surrogate variables is one of a classic love–hate relationship. Epidemiologists love surrogates because many studies would not be possible without them. When events are rare or the time between an intervention and the outcome is long, surrogate variables are used to fill the gap. Epidemiologists hate surrogate variables because they introduce an additional step in the chain between intervention (or exposure) and o…
What do we have to know from migrants' past exposures to understand their health status? a life course approach
Empirical findings show that morbidity and mortality risks of migrants can differ considerably from those of populations in the host countries. However, while several explanatory models have been developed, most migrant studies still do not consider explicitly the situation of migrants before migration. Here, we discuss an extended approach to understand migrant health comprising a life course epidemiology perspective. The incorporation of a life…
SP5-32 Risk profile for transmission of Mycobacterium ulcerans in Akuapem South and Suhum Kraboa-Coaltar, Ghana
Introduction Buruli ulcer (BU) disease is a chronic debilitating skin disease caused by Mycobacterium Ulcerans . The ulcer can be so extensive that it affects daily activities of the person affected, ulcers can heal and lead to disfiguring of the part of the body involved. Ghana is one of the countries in the West-Africa that buruli ulcer affects. Among the districts, our study area is affected. Unfortunately the exact way of getting the disease …
The factor structure of the Turkish version of the Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ-R) in patients with diabetes and cardiovascular disease
In accordance with studies on other language adaptations of the questionnaire, we identified certain items of the IPQ-R as potential sources of poor model fit. Their inclusion should be reconsidered in future applications of the questionnaire and researchers should examine whether our reduced set of items is stable across different populations. Our modified 34-item model showed a good reliability and discriminant validity and hence could be a val…
Relationship between financial speculation and food prices or price volatility
There is an unresolved debate about the potential effects of financial speculation on food prices and price volatility. Germany’s largest financial institution and leading global investment bank recently decided to continue investing in agricultural commodities, stating that there is little empirical evidence to support the notion that the growth of agricultural-based financial products has caused price increases or volatility. The statement is s…
Assessing the effect of regional deprivation on mortality avoiding compositional bias
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: We assessed the effect of regional deprivation on individual mortality by making use of a natural experiment: we followed up ethnic German resettlers from Former Soviet Union countries who were quasi-randomly distributed across the socioeconomically heterogeneous counties of Germany's federal state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW). METHODS: We used data from the retrospective cohort study 'AMOR' on the mortality of resettler…
The German government's global health strategy – a strategy also to support research and development for neglected diseases
Neglected tropical infectious diseases as well as rare diseases are characterized by structural research and development (R&D) deficits. The market fails for these disease groups. Consequently, to meet public health and individual patient needs, political decision makers have to develop strategies at national and international levels to make up for this R&D deficit. The German government recently published its first global health strategy. The st…
The global health concept of the German government
Recognising global health as a rapidly emerging policy field, the German federal government recently released a national concept note for global health politics (July 10, 2013). As the German government could have a significant impact on health globally by making a coherent, evidence-informed, and long-term commitment in this field, we offer an initial appraisal of the strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for development recognised in this do…
How immigrants adapt their smoking behaviour
Turkish immigrants adapt their smoking behaviour towards that of the Dutch/German majority population with increasing duration of stay. This was particularly obvious among those who left Turkey before the age of 18 years - a group that needs tailored interventions to prevent further increases in smoking. Those who left Turkey as adults and spent a short time in the host countries show 'imported' smoking patterns. A limitation of this study is the…
Pathways between perceived discrimination and health among immigrants
In spite of anti-discrimination laws, the health of immigrants in Germany is negatively affected by perceived discrimination. Differential exposure to perceived discrimination may be seen as a mechanism contributing to the emergence of health inequalities in Germany
Burden of Outdoor Air Pollution in Kerala, India—A First Health Risk Assessment at State Level
Ambient air pollution causes a considerable disease burden, particularly in South Asia. The objective of the study is to test the feasibility of applying the environmental burden of disease method at state level in India and to quantify a first set of disease burden estimates due to ambient air pollution in Kerala. Particulate Matter (PM) was used as an indicator for ambient air pollution. The disease burden was quantified in Years of Life Lost (…
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