Alfred Rütten
Biographic Data
| ID | 3801281 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alfred Rütten |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alfred |
| FAMILY NAME | Rütten |
| SIGNATURE | RUTTEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 140 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Multi-level stakeholders' perspectives on implementation and scaling up community-based health promotion in Germany
Community-based health promotion has the potential to address existing health inequities, although such approaches are scarcely scaled up. For a successful scale up, various stakeholders at different levels and sectors need to be involved. The article’s aims are to assess what kind of external support communities need for implementation and to identify facilitators and barriers for scaling up community-based health promotion. Two national digital…
The capability approach as a bridging framework across health promotion settings: Theoretical and empirical considerations
Health promotion research has increasingly called for transdisciplinary approaches. Such calls ask for bridging frameworks that define comprehensive sets of health determinants and appropriately conceptualize the roles of population groups as well as other relevant actor groups in the co-production of health. This article aims to present the seminal capability approach by Sen and Nussbaum as a potentially suitable framework for such bridging ende…
Co-producing active lifestyles as whole-system-approach: Theory, intervention and knowledge-to-action implications
Population health interventions tend to lack links to the emerging discourse on interactive knowledge production and exchange. This situation may limit both a better understanding of mechanisms that impact health lifestyles and the development of strategies for population level change. This paper introduces an integrated approach based on structure-agency theory in the context of 'social practice'. It investigates the mechanisms of co-production …
Conceptualizing structural change in health promotion: Why we still need to know more about theory
As recently discussed in the public health literature, many questions concerning 'structural' approaches in health promotion seem to remain unanswered. We argue that, before attempting to provide answers, it is essential to clarify the underlying theoretical assumptions in order to arrive at the right questions one should ask. To this end, we introduce into the current debate an existing theoretical framework that helps conceptualize structural a…
Nachruf. Günther Lüschen: Wanderer zwischen den Welten – Wegbereiter für eine Soziologie des Sports
Enabling the powerful? Participatory action research with local policymakers and professionals for physical activity promotion with women in difficult life situations
Enabling is a concept central to health promotion. It is perceived as a mechanism that can help people gain control over determinants of health. Little is known, however, about enabling among policy-makers and professionals. This case study investigates enabling among policy-makers and professionals who engaged in a specific participatory approach, cooperative planning. We define 'enabling' as creating action situations that allow policy-makers a…
Building policy capacities: An interactive approach for linking knowledge to action in health promotion
This article outlines a theoretical framework for an interactive, research-driven approach to building policy capacities in health promotion. First, it illustrates how two important issues in the recent public health debate, capacity building and linking scientific knowledge to policy action, are connected to each other theoretically. It then introduces an international study on an interactive approach to capacity building in health promotion pol…
Policy development and implementation in health promotion--from theory to practice: The Adept model
There is a growing interest among health promotion researchers to better understand and influence the policy process. However, at this point in time, theoretical concepts enabling researchers to do so are still rare and underused, suggesting a need for new, easy-to-use concepts to explain successes or failures of health promotion policies. This article presents the ADEPT (Analysis of Determinants of Policy Impact) approach, which aims to explain …
The interplay of structure and agency in health promotion: Integrating a concept of structural change and the policy dimension into a multi-level model and applying it to health promotion principles a…
Quality of talent development systems: Results From an International Study
In this study a purpose-built framework for specifying quality criteria – structure, process and outcome – in talent development systems was developed and evaluated in an explorative international study. A standardized survey was conducted with 1020 survey participants from four nations (Australia, China, Germany and the USA) and four sports disciplines (athletics, gymnastics, swimming and volleyball). The overall response rate was 56.4%. The pri…
Assessment of organizational readiness for health promotion policy implementation: Test of a theoretical model
Models explaining the engagement of organizations in different policy sectors in health promotion policy implementation often utilize retrospective data. The current study attempted to model determinants of organizational readiness (goals, resources, obligation, opportunities) in supporting health policy implementation prospectively. Twenty qualitative interviews with representatives of organizations from different policy sectors, levels of gover…
Assets for policy making in health promotion: Overcoming political barriers inhibiting women in difficult life situations to access sport facilities
Research note: Social catalysts in health promotion implementation: Figure 1
Recent work carried out by WHO has recognised that an assets based approach to health promotion is crucial to support the promotion of population health and to reduce health inequalities. The assets approach was applied in a project aimed at promoting physical activity among women in difficult life situations. Within the participatory and collaborative work of the project, a specific set of assets for health that might initiate social participati…
Health Policy Perception and Health Behaviours: A Multilevel Analysis and Implications for Public Health Psychology
Associations of health policy perception with health behaviours are analysed. Policy perception is differentiated in information about programmes and appraisal of health policy's contribution to policy goals, and conceptualized on the level of: (1) individuals; and (2) populations (as a social climate indicator). Survey data from the Biomed2-Project MAREPS gathered in Belgium, Finland, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland ( N= 3343) sh…
Self reported physical activity, public health, and perceived environment: Results from a comparative European study
STUDY OBJECTIVE: The focus of physical activity promotion is moving from methods for increasing health enhancing physical activity on the individual level to higher level strategies including environmental and policy approaches. Scientific inquiry, traditionally related to individual-based strategies, requires adaptation and refinement when environmental and policy changes become more relevant. The objective of this study is to investigate the si…
The importance of the social environment for physically active lifestyle - results from an international study
Managing health promotion: Developing healthy organizations and communities
Conceptualizing Contemporary Health Lifestyles: Moving Beyond Weber
The intent of this article is to move beyond the work of Weber and construct a concept of health lifestyles applicable to the current phase of modernity. Beginning with the early twentieth-century work of Simmel and Weber on lifestyles generally, we move to mid-century to examine Bourdieu's perspective and turn to Giddens for an analysis of late century conditions. We find that Weber's insight concerning the dialectical interplay of choice and ch…
The implementation of health promotion: A new structural perspective
Struktur und Dynamik moderner Lebensstile: Grundlagen für ein neues empirisches Konzept
Im folgenden Beitrag werden grundsätzliche Überlegungen zur Entwicklung eines empirischen Lebensstilkonzepts vorgestellt. Auf eine ausführliche Darstellung der theoretischen Grundlagen der aktuellen Lebensstildiskussion wird verzichtet (vgl. u.a. Lüdtke 1989, Berger und Hradil 1990a, Müller 1992b, Berger und Michailow, beide in diesem Band). Dem Ansatz nach stehen unsere Überlegungen den Arbeiten Max Webers zu Lebensführung, Lebenschancen und Leb…
Policy Analysis and Utilization Process: The Interplay between Sport Policy and Applied Sociology of Sport
The purpose of this paper is to outline a case study approach that deals with a central problem of applied sociology of sport, i.e. how to relate the different worlds of science and practice (in this case: sport policy) to one another. In the first part, the conceptual perspectives of the case study are presented. These perspectives emphasize a specific understanding of objectivity. First of all, policy analysis has to deal adequately with the st…
The Specificity of Status Crystallization and its Meaning in Sport
Sport appears to be particularly geared to test out contradictory results in status crystallization research as it allows the identification of conditioning variables with a high level of specificity (Malewski). The potentials of extending crystallization theory and research to rank crystallization, i.e. within group/team ranks, is outlined but not followed in the present analysis. Results based on samples of adults and of athletes in 6 different…
Conceptualizing Contemporary Health Lifestyles: Moving Beyond Weber
The intent of this article is to move beyond the work of Weber and construct a concept of health lifestyles applicable to the current phase of modernity. Beginning with the early twentieth-century work of Simmel and Weber on lifestyles generally, we move to mid-century to examine Bourdieu's perspective and turn to Giddens for an analysis of late century conditions. We find that Weber's insight concerning the dialectical interplay of choice and ch…
The importance of the social environment for physically active lifestyle - results from an international study
The implementation of health promotion: A new structural perspective
Self reported physical activity, public health, and perceived environment: Results from a comparative European study
STUDY OBJECTIVE: The focus of physical activity promotion is moving from methods for increasing health enhancing physical activity on the individual level to higher level strategies including environmental and policy approaches. Scientific inquiry, traditionally related to individual-based strategies, requires adaptation and refinement when environmental and policy changes become more relevant. The objective of this study is to investigate the si…
The interplay of structure and agency in health promotion: Integrating a concept of structural change and the policy dimension into a multi-level model and applying it to health promotion principles a…
Assets for policy making in health promotion: Overcoming political barriers inhibiting women in difficult life situations to access sport facilities
Health Policy Perception and Health Behaviours: A Multilevel Analysis and Implications for Public Health Psychology
Associations of health policy perception with health behaviours are analysed. Policy perception is differentiated in information about programmes and appraisal of health policy's contribution to policy goals, and conceptualized on the level of: (1) individuals; and (2) populations (as a social climate indicator). Survey data from the Biomed2-Project MAREPS gathered in Belgium, Finland, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland ( N= 3343) sh…
Quality of talent development systems: Results From an International Study
In this study a purpose-built framework for specifying quality criteria – structure, process and outcome – in talent development systems was developed and evaluated in an explorative international study. A standardized survey was conducted with 1020 survey participants from four nations (Australia, China, Germany and the USA) and four sports disciplines (athletics, gymnastics, swimming and volleyball). The overall response rate was 56.4%. The pri…
Research note: Social catalysts in health promotion implementation: Figure 1
Recent work carried out by WHO has recognised that an assets based approach to health promotion is crucial to support the promotion of population health and to reduce health inequalities. The assets approach was applied in a project aimed at promoting physical activity among women in difficult life situations. Within the participatory and collaborative work of the project, a specific set of assets for health that might initiate social participati…
Policy Analysis and Utilization Process: The Interplay between Sport Policy and Applied Sociology of Sport
The purpose of this paper is to outline a case study approach that deals with a central problem of applied sociology of sport, i.e. how to relate the different worlds of science and practice (in this case: sport policy) to one another. In the first part, the conceptual perspectives of the case study are presented. These perspectives emphasize a specific understanding of objectivity. First of all, policy analysis has to deal adequately with the st…
The Specificity of Status Crystallization and its Meaning in Sport
Sport appears to be particularly geared to test out contradictory results in status crystallization research as it allows the identification of conditioning variables with a high level of specificity (Malewski). The potentials of extending crystallization theory and research to rank crystallization, i.e. within group/team ranks, is outlined but not followed in the present analysis. Results based on samples of adults and of athletes in 6 different…
Policy Analysis and Utilization Process: The Interplay between Sport Policy and Applied Sociology of Sport
The purpose of this paper is to outline a case study approach that deals with a central problem of applied sociology of sport, i.e. how to relate the different worlds of science and practice (in this case: sport policy) to one another. In the first part, the conceptual perspectives of the case study are presented. These perspectives emphasize a specific understanding of objectivity. First of all, policy analysis has to deal adequately with the st…
Struktur und Dynamik moderner Lebensstile: Grundlagen für ein neues empirisches Konzept
Im folgenden Beitrag werden grundsätzliche Überlegungen zur Entwicklung eines empirischen Lebensstilkonzepts vorgestellt. Auf eine ausführliche Darstellung der theoretischen Grundlagen der aktuellen Lebensstildiskussion wird verzichtet (vgl. u.a. Lüdtke 1989, Berger und Hradil 1990a, Müller 1992b, Berger und Michailow, beide in diesem Band). Dem Ansatz nach stehen unsere Überlegungen den Arbeiten Max Webers zu Lebensführung, Lebenschancen und Leb…
The implementation of health promotion: A new structural perspective
Managing health promotion: Developing healthy organizations and communities
Conceptualizing Contemporary Health Lifestyles: Moving Beyond Weber
The intent of this article is to move beyond the work of Weber and construct a concept of health lifestyles applicable to the current phase of modernity. Beginning with the early twentieth-century work of Simmel and Weber on lifestyles generally, we move to mid-century to examine Bourdieu's perspective and turn to Giddens for an analysis of late century conditions. We find that Weber's insight concerning the dialectical interplay of choice and ch…
Self reported physical activity, public health, and perceived environment: Results from a comparative European study
STUDY OBJECTIVE: The focus of physical activity promotion is moving from methods for increasing health enhancing physical activity on the individual level to higher level strategies including environmental and policy approaches. Scientific inquiry, traditionally related to individual-based strategies, requires adaptation and refinement when environmental and policy changes become more relevant. The objective of this study is to investigate the si…
The importance of the social environment for physically active lifestyle - results from an international study
Health Policy Perception and Health Behaviours: A Multilevel Analysis and Implications for Public Health Psychology
Associations of health policy perception with health behaviours are analysed. Policy perception is differentiated in information about programmes and appraisal of health policy's contribution to policy goals, and conceptualized on the level of: (1) individuals; and (2) populations (as a social climate indicator). Survey data from the Biomed2-Project MAREPS gathered in Belgium, Finland, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland ( N= 3343) sh…
Research note: Social catalysts in health promotion implementation: Figure 1
Recent work carried out by WHO has recognised that an assets based approach to health promotion is crucial to support the promotion of population health and to reduce health inequalities. The assets approach was applied in a project aimed at promoting physical activity among women in difficult life situations. Within the participatory and collaborative work of the project, a specific set of assets for health that might initiate social participati…
Assessment of organizational readiness for health promotion policy implementation: Test of a theoretical model
Models explaining the engagement of organizations in different policy sectors in health promotion policy implementation often utilize retrospective data. The current study attempted to model determinants of organizational readiness (goals, resources, obligation, opportunities) in supporting health policy implementation prospectively. Twenty qualitative interviews with representatives of organizations from different policy sectors, levels of gover…
Assets for policy making in health promotion: Overcoming political barriers inhibiting women in difficult life situations to access sport facilities
Quality of talent development systems: Results From an International Study
In this study a purpose-built framework for specifying quality criteria – structure, process and outcome – in talent development systems was developed and evaluated in an explorative international study. A standardized survey was conducted with 1020 survey participants from four nations (Australia, China, Germany and the USA) and four sports disciplines (athletics, gymnastics, swimming and volleyball). The overall response rate was 56.4%. The pri…
Policy development and implementation in health promotion--from theory to practice: The Adept model
There is a growing interest among health promotion researchers to better understand and influence the policy process. However, at this point in time, theoretical concepts enabling researchers to do so are still rare and underused, suggesting a need for new, easy-to-use concepts to explain successes or failures of health promotion policies. This article presents the ADEPT (Analysis of Determinants of Policy Impact) approach, which aims to explain …
The interplay of structure and agency in health promotion: Integrating a concept of structural change and the policy dimension into a multi-level model and applying it to health promotion principles a…
Enabling the powerful? Participatory action research with local policymakers and professionals for physical activity promotion with women in difficult life situations
Enabling is a concept central to health promotion. It is perceived as a mechanism that can help people gain control over determinants of health. Little is known, however, about enabling among policy-makers and professionals. This case study investigates enabling among policy-makers and professionals who engaged in a specific participatory approach, cooperative planning. We define 'enabling' as creating action situations that allow policy-makers a…
Building policy capacities: An interactive approach for linking knowledge to action in health promotion
This article outlines a theoretical framework for an interactive, research-driven approach to building policy capacities in health promotion. First, it illustrates how two important issues in the recent public health debate, capacity building and linking scientific knowledge to policy action, are connected to each other theoretically. It then introduces an international study on an interactive approach to capacity building in health promotion pol…
Nachruf. Günther Lüschen: Wanderer zwischen den Welten – Wegbereiter für eine Soziologie des Sports
Conceptualizing structural change in health promotion: Why we still need to know more about theory
As recently discussed in the public health literature, many questions concerning 'structural' approaches in health promotion seem to remain unanswered. We argue that, before attempting to provide answers, it is essential to clarify the underlying theoretical assumptions in order to arrive at the right questions one should ask. To this end, we introduce into the current debate an existing theoretical framework that helps conceptualize structural a…
Co-producing active lifestyles as whole-system-approach: Theory, intervention and knowledge-to-action implications
Population health interventions tend to lack links to the emerging discourse on interactive knowledge production and exchange. This situation may limit both a better understanding of mechanisms that impact health lifestyles and the development of strategies for population level change. This paper introduces an integrated approach based on structure-agency theory in the context of 'social practice'. It investigates the mechanisms of co-production …
The capability approach as a bridging framework across health promotion settings: Theoretical and empirical considerations
Health promotion research has increasingly called for transdisciplinary approaches. Such calls ask for bridging frameworks that define comprehensive sets of health determinants and appropriately conceptualize the roles of population groups as well as other relevant actor groups in the co-production of health. This article aims to present the seminal capability approach by Sen and Nussbaum as a potentially suitable framework for such bridging ende…
Multi-level stakeholders' perspectives on implementation and scaling up community-based health promotion in Germany
Community-based health promotion has the potential to address existing health inequities, although such approaches are scarcely scaled up. For a successful scale up, various stakeholders at different levels and sectors need to be involved. The article’s aims are to assess what kind of external support communities need for implementation and to identify facilitators and barriers for scaling up community-based health promotion. Two national digital…
Political science (17 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Health promotion (11 works) · Public relations (11 works) · Health Policy Implementation Science (10 works) · Public health (10 works) · Community Health and Development (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Nursing (8 works)