Ulrich Laaser

Dados Biográficos

ID1258025
NOMEUlrich Laaser
PRENOMESUlrich
SOBRENOMELaaser
ASSINATURALAASER U
AFILIAÇÕESBielefeld University
ORCID0000-0001-5889-4471
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS13
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR13
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2000
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • Ensuring justice in global health education initiatives – a review of pearls and pitfalls

    Open AccessAleksandar Stevanović, Vesna Bjegović-Mikanović et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Global health education initiatives (GHEIs) include various educational programs and opportunities aimed at training a competent global and public health workforce to address major global health issues. Many GHEIs are led by institutions in high-income countries and fail to support the development of local educational capacities that would strengthen health systems and ensure a continuous supply of public health professionals. This analysis explo…

  • Data Mining Approach

    Open AccessVesna Bjegović-Mikanović, Helmut Wenzel et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    Background: Women's happiness and life satisfaction, often summarized as subjective wellbeing, are of great value for most individuals and are associated with various determinants. The countries of the Western Balkan are of particular interest after the political changes in the nineties. Are the women satisfied with their lives today? Methods: We use the most recent datasets of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) for women 15-49 years o…

  • Population aging and migration – history and UN forecasts in the EU-28 and its east and south near neighborhood – one century perspective 1950–2050

    Open AccessMihajlo Michael Jakovljevic, Tadeusz Dębniak et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2018

    Long term migration from Eastern Europe westwards and from MENA region northwards is historically present for many decades dating back deep into the Cold War Era. Contemporary large-scale migrations outsourcing from Arab League nations towards rich European Protestant North is probably the peak of an iceberg in long migration routes history. However, in the decades to come acceleration of aging is likely to question sustainability of such movemen…

  • The role of mother’s education in the nutritional status of children in Serbia

    Open AccessŽeljka Stamenković, Bosiljka Djikanovic et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2016

    Objective The present study aimed to identify the role of mother’s education in the nutritional status of children aged 2–5 years in Serbia. Design Nationally representative population-based study. Age- and gender-specific BMI percentiles of children were analysed. In accordance with the WHO growth reference, children with BMI less than the 5th percentile were considered undernourished. Logistic regression was used to calculate the association be…

  • Special issue “Facets of Global Health

    Open AccessTewabech Bishaw, Thomas Krafft et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2014

    The collection of articles in this special issue provides a broad overview on various facets of global health, and it attempts to establish the link between globalisation and its manifestation and impact on the regional and local levels. The idea for this collection was first conceived during the 13th World Congress on Public Health, held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 23–27 April 2012, and evolved out of deliberations regarding the lack of comprehens…

  • Millennium Development Goals

    Open AccessMarta Lomazzi, Ulrich Laaser et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2014

    BACKGROUND: There have been various consultations on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by different groups. However, even if it is clear that the health sector has led the development success of the MDGs, only a few MDG reports consider public health experts' points of view and these are mainly government driven. DESIGNS: The World Federation of Public Health Associations (WFPHA) has executed a global survey to consult public health profess…

  • The Millennium Development Goals

    Open AccessMarta Lomazzi, Bettina Borisch et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2014

    The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight international development goals to be achieved by 2015 addressing poverty, hunger, maternal and child mortality, communicable disease, education, gender inequality, environmental damage and the global partnership. Most activities worldwide have focused on maternal and child health and communicable diseases, while less attention has been paid to environmental sustainability and the development of a…

  • Global health ethics

    Open AccessGreg Stapleton, Peter Schröder‐Bäck et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2014

    Global health ethics is a relatively new term that is used to conceptualize the process of applying moral value to health issues that are typically characterized by a global level effect or require action coordinated at a global level. It is important to acknowledge that this account of global health ethics takes a predominantly geographic approach and may infer that the subject relates primarily to macro-level health phenomena. However, global h…

  • Global health in the 21st century

    Open AccessUlrich Laaser, Howard Brand et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2014

    INTRODUCTION: Since the end of the 1990s, globalization has become a common term, facilitated by the social media of today and the growing public awareness of life-threatening problems common to all people, such as global warming, global security and global divides. REVIEW: For the main parameters of health like the burden of disease, life expectancy and healthy life expectancy, extreme discrepancies are observed across the world. Infant mortalit…

  • Health-related quality of life in diabetic patients and controls without diabetes in refugee camps in the Gaza strip

    Open AccessAshraf Eljedi, Rafael Mikolajczyk et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2006

    HRQOL is strongly reduced in diabetic patients living in refugee camps in the Gaza strip. Women and older patients are especially affected

  • Psychosocial influences on adolescent sexuality and identity in rural Kenya

    Anne Kamau, Reinhard Bornemann et al.ARTICLEHealth Sociology Review2006Referências: 1

    This article examines the influence of psychosocial factors on adolescent sexuality and identity in Kenya. It focuses on male circumcision, peer and parental relationships. The article is based on a study which investigated factors influencing access and utilisation of preventive reproductive health services by adolescents in Murang’a District, Kenya. Structured interviews were conducted with 113 inschool adolescents. Findings show that they lack…

  • Can a decline in the population means of cardiovascular risk factors reduce the number of people at risk

    Ulrich Laaser, J Breckenkamp et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2001Referências: 6

    OBJECTIVE: To prove the possibility of shifting distribution of cardiovascular risk factors for a whole population over time and thereby to influence the prevalence of the corresponding disease states, according to the theory stated by Geoffrey Rose in 1985. DESIGN: Examination of standardised data from the German Cardiovascular Prevention Study (GCP), a seven year long, population-based, multicentre intervention trial, concerned with decreasing …

  • Conceptualising the mortality divide in Germany

    Ulrich LaaserARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2000Referências: 2

    Conceptualising the mortality divide in Germany: towards an interdisciplinary analysis Why should we know about trends in mortality? Simply, because we want to control them as life expectancy is considered the most relevant health indicator. And here the trouble starts: there are too many determinants aVecting health in diVerent combinations at diVerent historical times. During the cold war the "big simplifiers" used every information to argue in…