Claus Wendt
Biographic Data
| ID | 285777 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claus Wendt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claus |
| FAMILY NAME | Wendt |
| SIGNATURE | WENDT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Siegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3538-0747 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 157 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 41 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Seeking professional help for sleep-related complaints
Introduction: Sleep-related complaints affect a significant proportion of the adult population in many societies. Despite the prevalence of symptoms and potential secondary and comorbid conditions, the utilization of professional help is quite low. The underlying reasons for this phenomenon have yet to be adequately investigated. To address this gap, we expand the conventional explanatory models to encompass the perceived cause as an explanatory …
Health Policy – the best evidence for better policies
Is Lower Trust in Covid-19 Regulations Associated with Academic Frustration? A Comparison between Danish and German University Students
Despite the proximity of both countries, Danes and Germans differ in the level of trust in their government. This may play a role with respect to the disruptive impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on university students. This study investigated the association between trust in governmental regulations, trust in university regulations, risk perceptions, and academic frustration among Danish and German students. As part of the COVID-19 International St…
Fear of Infection and Depressive Symptoms among German University Students during the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has a significant psychological impact at the population level and fear of infection is one of the stressors involved. The study aimed to examine fear of infection and associations with university students' depressive symptoms, substance use, and social contacts during the COVID-19 outbreak in Germany in May 2020. A cross-sectional online survey was conducted at four German universities (n = 5.021, 69% female, mean age: 24 y…
Social Assistance
Social assistance guarantees basic social rights and provides means-tested, residual benefits to persons in need. It is the last safety net of the welfare state. The actual significance of social assistance varies by welfare regime: the more inclusive and generous a social security system, the less important usually is social assistance. In the Nordic countries, for example, with highly developed social security, few persons actually depend on so…
Perceptions of Study Conditions and Depressive Symptoms During the Covid-19 Pandemic Among University Students in Germany
Background: Results of previous studies examining the impact of the SARS-CoV-1 epidemic in 2003 on university students' mental well-being indicated severe mental health consequences. It is unclear how the current COVID-19 pandemic and the changes in study conditions due to federal regulations affected mental well-being in the German student population. We examined university students' perceptions of study conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic a…
Worlds of long-term care
Providing long-term care (LTC) to the elderly is a major challenge for the welfare state. LTC systems differ widely among countries. Due to recent maturation, economization, and marketization processes, earlier LTC comparisons and typologies are no longer suitable to give a comprehensive overview of LTC systems and their major characteristics. In this paper we introduce a new typology of LTC systems in the OECD world, based on most recent OECD da…
Worsened Financial Situation During the Covid-19 Pandemic Was Associated With Depressive Symptomatology Among University Students in Germany
Background: Previous findings suggest that university students are at an elevated risk to experience financial hardship and to suffer from depressive symptoms. This vulnerability may have substantially increased during the coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) pandemic which might have affected students' socio-economic situation but possibly also their mental well-being. We examined whether the financial situation changed during the COVID-19 pandemic…
Engagement in Health Risk Behaviours before and during the Covid-19 Pandemic in German University Students
Tobacco and cannabis use, alcohol consumption and inactivity are health risk behaviors (HRB) of crucial importance for health and wellbeing. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on university students' engagement in HRB has yet received limited attention. We investigated whether HRB changed during the COVID-19 pandemic, assessed factors associated with change and profiles of HRB changes in university students. A web-based survey was conducted in M…
Access barriers to health and social services in Cambodia
Health inequalities exist all over the world. They contradict accepted values of human rights, since health is a precondition to participate in everyday life and in social, political and economic activities. South East Asian countries have developed rapidly in economic but also in social and political terms. Despite good economic development and improved living conditions overall, access to health services is neglected and inequalities are exacer…
Social Health Insurance in Europe
This article discusses recent developments in and new principles of European social health insurance (SHI). It analyses how privatization policies and competition have altered social insurance and whether financial difficulties are caused by social insurance features not evident in other types of health care systems. There is little if any evidence that SHI causes higher cost increases than other types of systems. The comparison of five European …
Introduction to Lepsius’ Concept of Institutional Theory
Max Weber and Institutional Theory
Health Politics and Policy
An institutional theory of welfare state effects on the distribution of population health
Changing Healthcare System Types
This article classifies 32 O rganisation for E conomic C o‐operation and D evelopment ( OECD ) healthcare systems based on data from 2001 and 2007. It shows that European countries are clustered in different types of healthcare systems and that traditional typologies are only partially represented in the four types of healthcare systems identified in this study. Type 1 represents countries with low total health expenditure ( THE ), high public fi…
Krankenversicherung oder Gesundheitsversorgung?
Krankenversicherung Oder Gesundheitsversorgung?
Krankenversicherung Oder Gesundheitsversorgung?
Social health insurance without corporate actors
Confidence in receiving medical care when seriously ill
Objective This paper examines how negative experiences with the health‐care system create a lack of confidence in receiving medical care in seven countries: Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Methods The empirical analysis is based on data from the Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey 2007, with nationally representative samples of adults aged 18 and over. For the a…
Gatekeeping and provider choice in OECD healthcare systems
Gatekeeping and provider choice have become central in health policymaking within the last two decades. This article contributes to the debates in two ways: first, it provides an extended review of evidence on the impact of gatekeeping and provider choice on efficiency, costs, quality, equality and patient empowerment; and second, it empirically analyses regulations and identifies common trends in healthcare reforms in OECD countries since 1990. …
Gesundheitssysteme im internationalen Vergleich
Die Gesundheitssystemforschung kann von der Public Health-Forschung lernen. In der international vergleichenden Analyse von Gesundheitssystemen stand viel zu lange die Frage der Kostenentwicklung im Vordergrund. In jüngeren Studien wurde der Schwerpunkt etwas stärker auf die Analyse von Regulierungs- und Governance-Formen gerückt. Doch die Frage, welchen Einfluss unterschiedliche institutionelle Regelungen auf die Gesundheitsversorgung und den Ge…
Welfare States and Public Opinion
Welfare States and Public Opinion comprises an informed inquiry into three fields of social policy – health policy, family policy, and unemployment benefits and social assistance. Though the analyses stem from research spanning fifteen countries across Europe, the conclusions can be applied to social policy problems in nations worldwide. Combining a detailed analysis of the institutional structure of social policy with the study of public attitud…
The State and Healthcare
Describes developments in healthcare systems over nearly four decades. Combining cross-sectional studies on healthcare financing, provision and policy values with in-depth country studies of Britain
An institutional theory of welfare state effects on the distribution of population health
Healthcare System Types
This article addresses the need to establish a comprehensive conceptual framework for analysing healthcare systems and their transformations. It begins by offering an overview of the current state of the art in the field, pointing to the literature's absence of conceptual robustness in the definition of system types. By exploring the dimensions ‘financing’, ‘provision’ and ‘regulation’ of healthcare, the article then proceeds deductively in line …
How Do Europeans Perceive Their Healthcare System? Patterns of Satisfaction and Preference for State Involvement in the Field of Healthcare
In this article we analyse the relationship between the institutional set-up of healthcare systems and patterns of public support. Two dimensions are distinguished, namely, state responsibility for healthcare provision and satisfaction with healthcare systems. Using data on 14 European countries from the Eurobarometer survey, we find only small effects of institutional indicators on preferences for a strong role of the state. Almost everywhere in…
The changing role of the state in healthcare systems
This article focuses on two major questions concerning the changing role of the state in the healthcare systems of OECD countries. First, we ask whether major changes in the level of state involvement (in healthcare systems) have occurred in the past 30 years. Given the fact that three types of healthcare system, each of which is characterized by a distinct role of the state, evolved during the ‘Golden Age’, we discuss how this distinctiveness – …
Changing Healthcare System Types
This article classifies 32 O rganisation for E conomic C o‐operation and D evelopment ( OECD ) healthcare systems based on data from 2001 and 2007. It shows that European countries are clustered in different types of healthcare systems and that traditional typologies are only partially represented in the four types of healthcare systems identified in this study. Type 1 represents countries with low total health expenditure ( THE ), high public fi…
Social health insurance without corporate actors
Translating Monetary Inputs into Health Care Provision
This article investigates different modes of public policy in health care and their impact on health care financing and health service provision. In order to investigate the relationship between health expenditure and health service provision, we construct an "index of health care providers". The empirical analysis of expenditure and this index demonstrates that there is only a weak correspondence between the level of total health expenditure and…
Gatekeeping and provider choice in OECD healthcare systems
Gatekeeping and provider choice have become central in health policymaking within the last two decades. This article contributes to the debates in two ways: first, it provides an extended review of evidence on the impact of gatekeeping and provider choice on efficiency, costs, quality, equality and patient empowerment; and second, it empirically analyses regulations and identifies common trends in healthcare reforms in OECD countries since 1990. …
Vertrauen in Gesundheitssysteme
Krankenversicherung oder Gesundheitsversorgung?
Krankenversicherung oder Gesundheitsversorgung? Gesundheitssysteme im Vergleich.
Vertrauen in Gesundheitssysteme
Satisfaction with Health Care Systems
Das Weber-Paradigma
»... Der vorliegende Band zeigt gerade in der Vielfalt der Themenbereiche, aber auch in der Varietät der Anknüpfungs- und Abgrenzungspunkte zum «Weber-Paradigma» die Fruchtbarkeit des Ansatzes von Max Weber weit über den Bereich einer eng verstandenen Soziologie hinaus. Für besonders wichtig halte ich die daraus hervorgehenden Hinweise zu einer Wiedergewinnung einer Einheit der Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften auf höherem Niveau, d.h. unter …
Der Wandel der Staatlichkeit im Gesundheitswesen von OECD-Ländern - Fragestellungen, Untersuchungsdesign und erste Ergebnisse
In the framework of the DFG-Research-Unit 597 "Transformation of the State" is Project C3 investigating the change of the role of the state in health care systems in OECD-countries between 1970 and 2000. The primary research hypothesis is, that a tendency of convergence exists regarding the role of the state for the three main dimensions of health care systems, namely service provision, financing and regulation. This is carried out firstly based …
Klaus Hurrelmann, Andreas Klocke, Wolfgang Melzer und Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer (Hg.)
The changing role of the state in healthcare systems
This article focuses on two major questions concerning the changing role of the state in the healthcare systems of OECD countries. First, we ask whether major changes in the level of state involvement (in healthcare systems) have occurred in the past 30 years. Given the fact that three types of healthcare system, each of which is characterized by a distinct role of the state, evolved during the ‘Golden Age’, we discuss how this distinctiveness – …
Vom Nutzen und Nachteil des Institutionentransfers nach der deutschen Vereinigung
Nach der Vereinigung wurde das westdeutsche Institutionengefüge auf die neuen Bundesländer übertragen. Den Bürgerinnen und Bürgern von Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, (Ost-)Berlin, Thüringen, Sachsen und Sachsen-Anhalt wurde damit eine erhebliche Orientierungsleistung an Institutionen abverlangt, die ihnen zuvor weitgehend unbekannt waren. Aus institutionentheoretischer Sicht ist mit einem solchen Transfer das Problem verbunden, dass Institutionen ihre h…
Leitideen der Gesundheitsversorgung
AuszugInstitutionen sind nach () Prozesse, die soziales Handeln auf Leitideen beziehen, die dadurch handlungsrelevant werden. Sie bilden ein Scharnier zwischen individuellen und kollektiven Interessen einerseits und kulturellen Ideen, Wertvorstellungen und Idealen der Lebensführung andererseits. Diese institutionentheoretische Perspektive knüpft an Webers Konzept der „legitimen Ordnung“ an. Sofern eine Orientierung an Maximen, die durch eine Ordn…
Krankenversicherung oder Gesundheitsversorgung?
Krankenversicherung oder Gesundheitsversorgung?
Krankenversicherung Oder Gesundheitsversorgung?
Healthcare System Types
This article addresses the need to establish a comprehensive conceptual framework for analysing healthcare systems and their transformations. It begins by offering an overview of the current state of the art in the field, pointing to the literature's absence of conceptual robustness in the definition of system types. By exploring the dimensions ‘financing’, ‘provision’ and ‘regulation’ of healthcare, the article then proceeds deductively in line …
The State and Healthcare
Describes developments in healthcare systems over nearly four decades. Combining cross-sectional studies on healthcare financing, provision and policy values with in-depth country studies of Britain
State and Healthcare
The Self-Regulatory German Healthcare System Between Growing Competition and State Hierarchy
This article focuses on the changing role of the state in financing, providing and regulating health care services under the German health care system from 1970-2000. While a reduced role of the state can be observed in terms of financing, our analysis of service provision indicates inconsistent developments. Monetary resource flow analyses indicate a decrease in private service provision as a percentage of total health expenditure, but when anal…
Translating Monetary Inputs into Health Care Provision
This article investigates different modes of public policy in health care and their impact on health care financing and health service provision. In order to investigate the relationship between health expenditure and health service provision, we construct an "index of health care providers". The empirical analysis of expenditure and this index demonstrates that there is only a weak correspondence between the level of total health expenditure and…
How Do Europeans Perceive Their Healthcare System? Patterns of Satisfaction and Preference for State Involvement in the Field of Healthcare
In this article we analyse the relationship between the institutional set-up of healthcare systems and patterns of public support. Two dimensions are distinguished, namely, state responsibility for healthcare provision and satisfaction with healthcare systems. Using data on 14 European countries from the Eurobarometer survey, we find only small effects of institutional indicators on preferences for a strong role of the state. Almost everywhere in…
Gesundheitssysteme im internationalen Vergleich
Die Gesundheitssystemforschung kann von der Public Health-Forschung lernen. In der international vergleichenden Analyse von Gesundheitssystemen stand viel zu lange die Frage der Kostenentwicklung im Vordergrund. In jüngeren Studien wurde der Schwerpunkt etwas stärker auf die Analyse von Regulierungs- und Governance-Formen gerückt. Doch die Frage, welchen Einfluss unterschiedliche institutionelle Regelungen auf die Gesundheitsversorgung und den Ge…
Welfare States and Public Opinion
Welfare States and Public Opinion comprises an informed inquiry into three fields of social policy – health policy, family policy, and unemployment benefits and social assistance. Though the analyses stem from research spanning fifteen countries across Europe, the conclusions can be applied to social policy problems in nations worldwide. Combining a detailed analysis of the institutional structure of social policy with the study of public attitud…
Confidence in receiving medical care when seriously ill
Objective This paper examines how negative experiences with the health‐care system create a lack of confidence in receiving medical care in seven countries: Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Methods The empirical analysis is based on data from the Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey 2007, with nationally representative samples of adults aged 18 and over. For the a…
Gatekeeping and provider choice in OECD healthcare systems
Gatekeeping and provider choice have become central in health policymaking within the last two decades. This article contributes to the debates in two ways: first, it provides an extended review of evidence on the impact of gatekeeping and provider choice on efficiency, costs, quality, equality and patient empowerment; and second, it empirically analyses regulations and identifies common trends in healthcare reforms in OECD countries since 1990. …
Krankenversicherung oder Gesundheitsversorgung?
Krankenversicherung Oder Gesundheitsversorgung?
Political science (26 works) · Economics (19 works) · Medicine (16 works) · Business (15 works) · Health care (15 works) · Economic growth (14 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (14 works) · Global Health Care Issues (11 works) · Public economics (11 works) · Health and Medical Studies (10 works)