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48
Citations
12458
World Ranking
3084
National Ranking
22

Overview

Jerome Bickenbach is affiliated with the University of Lucerne in Switzerland and conducts research primarily in the field of Medicine. They have contributed significantly to subfields including Epidemiology, Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

The main topics covered in Bickenbach's research include:

  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Spinal Cord Injury Research
  • Chronic Disease Management Strategies
  • Down syndrome and intellectual disability research
  • Frailty in Older Adults
  • Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
  • Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders

Bickenbach's recent papers include:

  • Legal and Regulatory Approaches to Rehabilitation Planning: A Concise Overview of Current Laws and Policies Addressing Access to Rehabilitation in Five European Countries (2020), published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Qualitative methodological approaches involving participants with intellectual disabilities: Scoping review of literature exploring death and dying (2023), published in Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities
  • Identification of Classes of Functioning Trajectories and Their Predictors in Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury Attending Initial Rehabilitation in Switzerland (2021), published in Archives of Rehabilitation Research and Clinical Translation
  • Editorial: Strengthening Rehabilitation in Europe (2022), published in Health Policy
  • Examining the complexity of functioning in persons with spinal cord injury attending first rehabilitation in Switzerland using structural equation modelling (2020), published in Spinal Cord

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Bickenbach include:

  • Jsabel Hodel
  • Carla Sabariego
  • Cristina Ehrmann
  • Gerold Stucki
  • Birgit Prodinger

Publication venues frequently featuring Bickenbach's work include:

  • Spinal Cord
  • South Eastern European Journal of Public Health
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities
  • Archives of Rehabilitation Research and Clinical Translation

Best Publications

  • Searching for an Operational Definition of Frailty: A Delphi Method Based Consensus Statement. The Frailty Operative Definition-Consensus Conference Project

    Leocadio Rodríguez-Mañas;Catherine Féart;Catherine Féart;Giovanni Mann;Jose Viña

  • Models of disablement, universalism and the international classification of impairments, disabilities and handicaps.

    Jerome E Bickenbach;Somnath Chatterji;E.M Badley;T.B Üstün

  • The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health: a new tool for understanding disability and health

    T.B. Üstün;S. Chatterji;J. Bickenbach;N. Kostanjsek

  • Refinements of the ICF Linking Rules to strengthen their potential for establishing comparability of health information.

    Alarcos Cieza;Nora Fayed;Jerome Bickenbach;Birgit Prodinger

  • The definition of disability: what is in a name?

    Matilde Leonardi;Jerome Bickenbach;Tevfik Bedirhan Ustun;Nenad Kostanjsek

  • Systematic literature review on ICF from 2001 to 2009: its use, implementation and operationalisation

    Milda Cerniauskaite;Rui Quintas;Christine Boldt;Alberto Raggi

  • Covid-19 and Post Intensive Care Syndrome: A Call for Action.

    Henk J. Stam;Gerold Stucki;Jerome Bickenbach

  • Multiple-informant ranking of the disabling effects of different health conditions in 14 countries

    T Bedirhan Üstün;Jurgen Rehm;Somnath Chatterji;Shekhar Saxena

  • Encyclopedia of disability

    Gary L. Albrecht;Jerome Edmund Bickenbach;David T. Mitchell;Sharon L. Snyder

  • Rehabilitation: The health strategy of the 21st century.

    Gerold Stucki;Jerome Bickenbach;Christoph Gutenbrunner;John L. Melvin

  • Functioning: the third health indicator in the health system and the key indicator for rehabilitation.

    Gerold Stucki;Jerome Bickenbach

  • The Personal Factors of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health in the literature - a systematic review and content analysis.

    Szilvia Geyh;Claudio Peter;Rachel Müller;Jerome E Bickenbach

  • Physical Disability and Social Policy

    Jerome Edmund Bickenbach

  • Towards a conceptual description of rehabilitation as a health strategy.

    Thorsten Meyer;Christoph Gutenbrunner;Jerome Bickenbach;Alarcos Cieza

  • Disability and schizophrenia: a systematic review of experienced psychosocial difficulties

    Piotr Świtaj;Marta Anczewska;Anna Chrostek;Carla Sabariego

  • The World Report on Disability

    Jerome Bickenbach

  • ROAMER: Roadmap for mental health research in Europe

    Josep Maria Haro;José Luis Ayuso-Mateos;Istvan Bitter;Jacques Demotes-Mainard

  • Rethinking Disability

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  • Towards a minimal generic set of domains of functioning and health.

    Alarcos Cieza;Cornelia Oberhauser;Jerome Bickenbach;Somnath Chatterji

  • Toward the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) Rehabilitation Set: A Minimal Generic Set of Domains for Rehabilitation as a Health Strategy.

    Birgit Prodinger;Birgit Prodinger;Alarcos Cieza;Cornelia Oberhauser;Jerome Bickenbach;Jerome Bickenbach

  • Ageing, Disability and the WHO's International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)

    Jerome E Bickenbach;Somnath Chatterji;Nenad Kostanjsek;T Bedirhan Üstün

  • WHO's ICF and Functional Status Information in Health Records

    T. Bedirhan Üstün;Somnath Chatterji;Nenad Kostansjek;Jerome Bickenbach

Frequent Co-Authors

José Luis Ayuso-Mateos
José Luis Ayuso-Mateos Autonomous University of Madrid
Matilde Leonardi
Matilde Leonardi Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta
Sergei Scherbov
Sergei Scherbov International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Warren C. Sanderson
Warren C. Sanderson Stony Brook University
Seppo Koskinen
Seppo Koskinen Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Christine Bigby
Christine Bigby La Trobe University
Luis Salvador-Carulla
Luis Salvador-Carulla Australian National University
Tamar Heller
Tamar Heller University of Illinois at Chicago
Robin Room
Robin Room La Trobe University
Celso Arango
Celso Arango Complutense University of Madrid

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