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  • 2000 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Johannes Siegrist is affiliated with Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on Health Professions, with a significant number of publications in General Health Professions. Additional subfields of study include Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Health, and Demography.

The scientist's main topics of interest concentrate on workplace health and well-being, as well as employment and welfare studies. Other notable topics covered include health, psychology, and well-being; health disparities and outcomes; stress and burnout research; retirement, disability, and employment; and broader health and medical studies.

Siegrist has published extensively in various academic journals and venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Environment International
  • European Journal of Public Health
  • BMC Public Health
  • Occupational Medicine
  • The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Johannes Siegrist include:

  • The effect of exposure to long working hours on ischaemic heart disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis from the WHO/ILO Joint Estimates of the Work-related Burden of Disease and Injury (2020, Environment International)
  • The effect of exposure to long working hours on stroke: A systematic review and meta-analysis from the WHO/ILO Joint Estimates of the Work-related Burden of Disease and Injury (2020, Environment International)
  • The effect of exposure to long working hours on depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis from the WHO/ILO Joint Estimates of the Work-related Burden of Disease and Injury (2021, Environment International)
  • Work stress on rise? Comparative analysis of trends in work stressors using the European working conditions survey (2020, International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health)
  • The effect of exposure to long working hours on alcohol consumption, risky drinking and alcohol use disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis from the WHO/ILO Joint Estimates of the Work-related Burden of Disease and Injury (2020, Environment International)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Siegrist include:

  • Jian Li
  • Morten Wahrendorf
  • Alexis Descatha
  • Grace Sembajwe
  • Nico Dragano

Johannes Siegrist has also contributed to book publications. One of their works, Organizational Stress and Well-Being (2023), was published by Cambridge University Press. Another book titled Medizinische Soziologie in Deutschland (2022) was published by Gesundheit und Gesellschaft.

Among the awards received, Siegrist was named a Member of Academia Europaea in 2000.

Best Publications

  • Adverse health effects of high-effort/low-reward conditions.

    Johannes Siegrist

  • The measurement of effort-reward imbalance at work: European comparisons.

    Johannes Siegrist;Dagmar Starke;Tarani Chandola;Isabelle Godin

  • Job strain as a risk factor for coronary heart disease: a collaborative meta-analysis of individual participant data.

    Mika Kivimäki;Mika Kivimäki;Mika Kivimäki;Solja T. Nyberg;G. David Batty;G. David Batty;Eleonor I. Fransson;Eleonor I. Fransson;Eleonor I. Fransson

  • Two alternative job stress models and the risk of coronary heart disease.

    Hans Bosma;Richard Peter;Johannes Siegrist;Michael Marmot

  • Long working hours and risk of coronary heart disease and stroke : a systematic review and meta-analysis of published and unpublished data for 603 838 individuals

    Mika Kivimäki;Mika Kivimäki;Markus Jokela;Solja T. Nyberg;Archana Singh-Manoux;Archana Singh-Manoux

  • Coronary risk stratification, discrimination, and reclassification improvement based on quantification of subclinical coronary atherosclerosis: the Heinz Nixdorf Recall study.

    Raimund Erbel;Stefan Möhlenkamp;Susanne Moebus;Axel Schmermund

  • Assessment of clinically silent atherosclerotic disease and established and novel risk factors for predicting myocardial infarction and cardiac death in healthy middle-aged subjects: Rationale and design of the Heinz Nixdorf RECALL Study

    Axel Schmermund;Stefan Möhlenkamp;Andreas Stang;Dietrich Grönemeyer

  • Physical Activity and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease—A Meta-Analysis of Prospective Cohort Studies

    Jian Li;Johannes Siegrist

  • Health inequalities and the psychosocial environment—two scientific challenges

    Johannes Siegrist;Michael Marmot

  • Low status control, high effort at work and ischemic heart disease: prospective evidence from blue-collar men.

    Johannes Siegrist;Richard Peter;Astrid Junge;Peter Cremer

  • A short generic measure of work stress in the era of globalization: effort–reward imbalance

    Johannes Siegrist;Natalia Wege;Frank Pühlhofer;Morten Wahrendorf

  • Quality of work, well-being, and intended early retirement of older employees: baseline results from the SHARE Study.

    Johannes Siegrist;Morten Wahrendorf;Olaf von dem Knesebeck;Hendrik Jürges

  • Effort-reward imbalance at work and health

    Johannes Siegrist

  • Work stress and health risk behavior.

    Johannes Siegrist;Andreas Rödel

  • A prospective study of cumulative job stress in relation to mental health

    Isabelle Godin;Yves Coppieters;Johannes Siegrist

  • Social relationships, mental health and wellbeing in physical disability: a systematic review

    Hannah Tough;Johannes Siegrist;Christine Fekete

  • Association between job stress and depression among Japanese employees threatened by job loss in a comparison between two complementary job-stress models.

    Akizumi Tsutsumi;Kazunori Kayaba;Töres Theorell;Johannes Siegrist

  • Chronic psychosocial stress at work and risk of depression: evidence from prospective studies

    Johannes Siegrist

  • Place, social exchange and health: proposed sociological framework.

    Johannes Siegrist

  • Job strain as a risk factor for coronary heart disease

    Mika Kivimäki;Solja T Nyberg;G David Batty;Eleonor I Fransson

Frequent Co-Authors

Raimund Erbel
Raimund Erbel University of Duisburg-Essen
Karl-Heinz Jöckel
Karl-Heinz Jöckel University of Duisburg-Essen
Mika Kivimäki
Mika Kivimäki University College London
Susanne Moebus
Susanne Moebus University of Duisburg-Essen
Jussi Vahtera
Jussi Vahtera Turku University Hospital
Reiner Rugulies
Reiner Rugulies University of Copenhagen
Lars Alfredsson
Lars Alfredsson Karolinska Institute
Olaf von dem Knesebeck
Olaf von dem Knesebeck Universität Hamburg

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