Abschlussbericht ueber die Taetigkeit der Geschaeftsstelle des Norddeutschen Forschungsverbundes Public Health. (Verbundkoordination) im Zeitraum 1992-1996

The North German Centre for Public Health Research (HFV) was funded with the goal to develop and establish scientific Public Health knowledge and structures. The first stage (1992-1996) comprised 21 projects funded by BMBF (German Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Technology) and 26 associated projects. They were carried out in the main NFV research institutions mainly based in Hannover, Bremen and Hamburg but also in Greifswald, Luebeck, Magdeburg and Rostock. The four thematic areas are: A. Public health history and methodological quality assurance; B. Social gerontology and rehabilitation; C. Occupational and environmental epidemiology and women and health; D. Evaluative health system analysis and health services research. Seven working groups served to facilitate the exchange of experiences. Seminars, workshops - with participants from abroad -, the edition of a book series, the journal Public Health Forum and more than 450 scientific and transfer-oriented publications accompanied the development of the NFV. As a result of the first stage of development, new public health structures could be established; these included postgraduate programmes in public health both at Hannover Medical School (permanently since 1994) and Bremen University (1995). In addition, the state Lower-Saxony decided to establish a Centre for Health Economics and Health System Research for the period 1996-2001. (orig.)SIGLEAvailable from TIB Hannover: F98B895+a / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekBundesministerium fuer Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie, Bonn (Germany)DEGerman

Ältere und Alte

Garms-Homolová V, Schaeffer D. Ältere und Alte. In: Schwartz FW, Walter U, Siegrist J, et al., eds. Public Health: Gesundheit und Gesundheitswesen. 3., überarbeitete Auflage. München: Urban & Fischer; 2012: 703-715

Zur Entwicklung von Pflege und Pflegewissenschaft

Schaeffer D, Moers M, Rosenbrock R. Zur Entwicklung von Pflege und Pflegewissenschaft. In: Schwartz FW, Walter U, Siegrist J, et al., eds. Public Health: Gesundheit und Gesundheitswesen. 3., überarbeitete Auflage. München: Urban & Fischer; 2012: 308-310

Archetype Transition in the German Health Service? The Attempted Modernization of Hospitals in a North German State

In this paper, we argue that, rather than aiming at universal contingency relationships, archetype theory needs to go down a path where ‘local variants’ can be discovered and understood by relating them to their organizational and institutional context(s). The case study of a public sector hospital group in a North German state (Hamburg) is drawn on here to elaborate the argument. We found evidence for a change from a Public Sector hospital archetype to a Public Hospital Corporation archetype. Drawing on this model permits us to explore the impact of the introduction of new forms of public management organization and the implications the managerial ideology underpinning this may have for the professional organization. The study explores the consequences of the innovations for professional/managerial relations. We also suggest that the ‘archetype’ approach may be particularly useful for the comparative study of organizations. This is particularly pertinent given the different – corporatist – organization of the German health care system and its different approach to public sector reform to that of the Anglo-American and Scandinavian systems where the ‘archetypal’ approach has so far been applied