Johannes Siegrist

Department of Medical Sociology, University of Duesseldorf, Medical Faculty, Germany

Professor and Director, Department of Medical Sociology, and Director Postgraduate Training Programme of Public Health University of Duesseldorf, Germany
Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Freiburg (1969). Habilitation in Sociology (1973).
Professor of Medical Sociology, University of Marburg (1973-1992); Visiting Professor Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA (1981).
President, International Society of Behavioural Medicine (1996-1998), Director European Science Foundation – scientific programme on 'Social variations in health expectancy in Europe' (1999-2003).
Member and chair of the Section 'Behavioural Sciences' of Academia Europaea, London (since 2000). Corresponding member Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (since 2004).

Research interests: Social determinants of health in midlife and early old life, with a special focus on psychosocial stress at work. Author of the work stress model 'effort-reward imbalance'.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Public Health & Epidemiology > Social & Behavioral Determinants of Health (since 15 November 2005)

All recent recommendations

• 3.0
  Systematic review of interventions for reducing occupational stress in health care workers.
  Recommended by Johannes Siegrist with Nico Dragano
  
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  Socioeconomic inequalities in health in 22 European countries.
  Recommended by Johannes Siegrist
  
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  Socioeconomic status, particulate air pollution, and daily mortality: differential exposure or differential susceptibility.
  Recommended by Johannes Siegrist with Nico Dragano
  
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  Did socioeconomic inequalities in morbidity and mortality change in the United States over the course of the twentieth century?
  Recommended by Johannes Siegrist
  
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  Job strain and risk of acute recurrent coronary heart disease events.
  Recommended by Johannes Siegrist
  
• 6.0
  The spread of obesity in a large social network over 32 years.
  Recommended by Johannes Siegrist
  
• 8.0
  A communication strategy and brochure for relatives of patients dying in the ICU.
  Recommended by Charles L Sprung, Johannes Siegrist
  
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  Emergency duties and deaths from heart disease among firefighters in the United States.
  Recommended by Johannes Siegrist
  
• 3.0
  Positive affect and health-related neuroendocrine, cardiovascular, and inflammatory processes.
  Recommended by Johannes Siegrist
  
• 4.8
  Effect of cross-level interaction between individual and neighborhood socioeconomic status on adult mortality rates.
  Recommended by Johannes Siegrist, Irene Yen
  
• 6.0
  High-fibre, low-fat diet predicts long-term weight loss and decreased type 2 diabetes risk: the Finnish Diabetes Prevention Study.
  Recommended by Johannes Siegrist
  
• 3.3
  Chronic stress at work and the metabolic syndrome: prospective study.
  Recommended by Suzanne Ho, Johannes Siegrist, Oluremi Aliyu
  
• 6.0
  Neighborhood of residence and incidence of coronary heart disease.
  Recommended by Johannes Siegrist
  
• 8.4
  Disease and disadvantage in the United States and in England.
  Recommended by Martin Hyde, Ichiro Kawachi, Johannes Siegrist, James Dunn
  
• 3.0
  Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in self-assessed health in 10 European countries.
  Recommended by Johannes Siegrist
  
• 6.0
  Childhood socioeconomic position, educational attainment, and adult cardiovascular risk factors: the Aberdeen children of the 1950s cohort study.
  Recommended by Johannes Siegrist
  
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  Organisational downsizing, sickness absence, and mortality: 10-town prospective cohort study.
  Recommended by Johannes Siegrist