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Prof. Dr. Matthias Richter

research interests

• Sociology of health and illness
• Determinants and mechanisms of social inequalities in health
• International research on child and adolescent health
• Life course research
• Prevention and health promotion

Curriculum Vitae

• since March 2011:
  Professor for Medical Sociology, Institute of Medical Sociology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
• 2009 - 2011:
  Assistant Professor for Medical Sociology and Social Epidemiology,  Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern,  Switzerland
• 2008 - 2009:
  Interim Professor for Prevention  and Health Promotion and Interim Professor for Psychosocial Care and  Health Psychology, Acting Head of the Department of Prevention and  Health Promotion, acting director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for  Child and Adolescent Health Promotion, School of Public Health,  University of Bielefeld, Germany
• 2005 - 2008:
  Senior lecturer, Department of Prevention and Health Promotion, School of Public Health, University of Bielefeld, Germany
• 2001 - 2005:
  Research Fellow, School of Public Health, University of Bielefeld, Germany
• 2000 - 2001:
  Research Fellow, Department of Health Reporting, Institute of Public Health (Northrhine-Westphalia), Bielefeld, Germany
• 1994 - 2000:
  Study of sociology, psychology and political economy, University of Bielefeld, Germany

selected publications

full publicationslist
Prof_M_Richter_Publications.pdf (89.9 KB)  vom 15.12.2011

ausgewählte Publikationen

Hurrelmann K, Rathmann K, Richter M (2011). Health Inequalities and welfare state regimes. A research note. Journal of Public Health, 19, 3-13

Hurrelmann K, Richter M, Rathmann K (2011). Welche Wohlfahrtspolitik fördert die Gesundheit? Der ungeklärte Zusammenhang von ökonomischer und gesundheitlicher Ungleichheit [What kind of welfare policy promotes health? The puzzling interrelation of economic and health inequality] Gesundheitswesen, 73(6), 335-343

Levin K, Torsheim T, Vollebergh WMA, Richter M, Davies CA, Schnohr C, Due P, Currie C (2011). National income and income inequality, family affluence and life satisfaction among 13 year old boys and girls: a multilevel study in 35 countries. Social Indicators Research, 104(2):179-194

Richter M (2010). It does take two to tango! On the need for theory in research on the social determinants of health. International Journal of Public Health, 55, 457–458

Richter M (2010). Risk behaviour in adolescence: Patterns, determinants and consequences. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag

Weyers S, Richter  M (2010). Prävention gesundheitlicher Ungleichheiten [The prevention of health inequalities]. In: Hurrelmann K, Klotz T, Haisch J (Hrsg.). Lehrbuch Prävention und Gesundheitsförderung (3. Auflage), 382-390

Richter M, Hurrelmann K (eds.) (2009). Gesundheitliche Ungleichheit. Grundlagen, Probleme, Perspektiven. 2. Auflage [Social inequalities in health: principles, problems, perspectives. 2nd Edition]. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag

Richter M, Erhart M, Vereecken CA, Zambon A, Boyce W, Nic Gabhainn S (2009). The role of behavioural factors in explaining socioeconomic differences in adolescent health: a multilevel study in 33 countries. Social Science & Medicine, 69, 396-403

Richter M, Vereecken CA, Boyce W, Maes L, Nic Gabhainn S, Currie CE (2009). Parental occupation, family affluence and adolescent health behaviour in 28 countries. International Journal of Public Health, 54, 203-12

Currie C, Molcho M, Boyce W, Holstein B, Torsheim T, Richter M (2008). Researching health inequalities in adolescence: the development of the HBSC Family Affluence Scale. Social Science & Medicine, 66, 1429-1436

Currie C, Nic Gabhainn S, Godeau E, Roberts C, Smith R, Currie D, Picket W, Richter  M, Morgan A, & Barnekow V (eds.) (2008). Inequalities in young people's health: HBSC international report from the 2005/2006 Survey. Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe

Bauer U, Bittlingmayer UH, Richter M (eds.) (2008). Health Inequalities. Determinanten und Mechanismen gesundheitlicher Ungleichheit [Health Inequalities. Determinants and mechanisms of social inequalities in health]. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag

Richter M, Lampert T (2008). Verkörperte Ungleichheiten: Die Rolle multipler Statusindikatoren für das Gesundheitsverhalten im Jugendalter [Embodied inequalities: The role of multiple measures of socioeconomic position for adolescent health behaviour]. Zeitschrift für Soziologie der Erziehung und Sozialisation (ZSE), 28, 174-190

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