Patrick Brzoska

Chair of Health Care Research

Germany's population is characterised by diversity, e.g. with regard to factors such as gender, age, socio-economic status, disability or migration background. These characteristics go hand in hand with different expectations of healthcare. If these expectations are not taken into account, this can lead to barriers and dissatisfaction in care and have a negative impact on the accessibility and quality of care.

The Chair of Health Care Research is dedicated to this field of research by using mixed-method approaches to investigate how population groups differ in terms of their health, utilisation of health services and health outcomes. On the other hand, measures are being developed to support healthcare organisations and providers in various healthcare sectors in the implementation of diversity-sensitive care.

About the projects

• Tugba Aksakal
• Kübra Annac
• Anna Audia
• Fabian Erdsiek
• Christian Kempny
• Till Neugebauer
• Dr Yüce Yilmaz-Aslan
• Diana Wahidie
• Research assistants: Christina Werner, Alena Allak, Selina Bayrak, Ilayda Dereli, Mohamed Munzir Idris

Since 10/2018
Professor and holder of the Chair of Health Care Research

6/2018-09/2018
Junior professor (tenure track W2) and head of the junior research group

research group 'Demography-orientated health care research'

Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Faculty of Medicine

10/2014-5/2018
Junior professor of epidemiology, Chemnitz University of Technology, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, Institute of Sociology

12/2008-09/2014
Academic staff, Bielefeld University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Epidemiology & International Public Health

Medicine

• QB03: Cross-sectional area "Health care economics, health care system, public health care"
• Journal Club Health Care Research
• Accompanying seminar to the module "Scientific work" (WiA)
   

Nursing science

• Methods of descriptive and analytical epidemiology
   

Comprehensive offers

• Qualitative research workshop

Diversity and health, including

• Health and healthcare for people with a history of migration
• Patient-reported outcomes
   

Methods of qualitative and quantitative health research, including

• Adaptation and validation of questionnaires
• Recording health-related quality of life

• Spokesperson of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Health Services Research (uni-wh.de/izvf).
• Deputy spokesperson of the NRW Research Consortia for Rehabilitation Sciences
   

Memberships, among others:

• German Society for Epidemiology (DGEpi)
• NRW Research Consortia for Rehabilitation Sciences
• Society for Rehabilitation Sciences
• Working group "Methods" of the German Society for Rehabilitation Sciences (DGRW)
• European Survey Research Association (ESRA)
• International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (ISPRM)
• German Alliance for Global Health Research (GLOHRA)
• Association of the Ethics Committee of Witten/Herdecke University
   

Editorships

• "Interdisciplinary health care research"(Editor)
• "Survey Research Methods" (Associate Editor)