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Thomas Abel is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland. Their research activity spans several fields, primarily focusing on health professions and medicine, with 33 and 28 publications respectively. Within these domains, their subfields of expertise include general health professions, sociology and political science, orthopedics and sports medicine, clinical psychology, and biomedical engineering.

The main topics covered in Thomas Abel's work demonstrate a strong focus on health literacy and information accessibility, COVID-19 and mental health, sports performance and training, muscle activation and electromyography studies, mobile health and mHealth applications, cerebral palsy and movement disorders, and school health and nursing education.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Thomas Abel include:

  • The COVID-19 pandemic calls for spatial distancing and social closeness: not for social distancing! (2020), International Journal of Public Health
  • Critical health literacy and the COVID-19 crisis (2020), Health Promotion International
  • Critical health literacy in pandemics: the special case of COVID-19 (2020), Health Promotion International

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Thomas Abel include Oliver J. Quittmann, Richard Benkert, Tina Foitschik, Heiko K. Strüder, and Peter Gelius. These collaborations have contributed to a diverse set of studies and publications in their research areas.

Thomas Abel's work is commonly published in venues such as Health Promotion International, European Journal of Public Health, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), International Journal of Public Health, and International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. Health Promotion International is the venue with the highest number of their publications.

Best Publications

  • KIDSCREEN-52 quality-of-life measure for children and adolescents.

    Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer;Angela Gosch;Luis Rajmil;Michael Erhart

  • From text to codings: intercoder reliability assessment in qualitative content analysis.

    Laila Burla;Birte Knierim;Jurgen Barth;Katharina Liewald

  • Reliability, construct and criterion validity of the KIDSCREEN-10 score: A short measure for children and adolescents' well-being and health-related quality of life

    Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer;Michael Erhart;Luis Rajmil;Michael Herdman

  • Landscape and well-being: a scoping study on the health-promoting impact of outdoor environments

    Andrea Abraham;Kathrin Sommerhalder;Thomas Abel

  • Age and gender differences in health-related quality of life of children and adolescents in Europe: a multilevel analysis.

    Gisela Michel;Gisela Michel;Corinna Bisegger;Daniela C. Fuhr;Thomas Abel

  • The importance of the social environment for physically active lifestyle--results from an international study.

    T Ståhl;A Rütten;D Nutbeam;A Bauman

  • Health-related quality of life: gender differences in childhood and adolescence

    Corinna Bisegger;Bernhard Cloetta;Ursula von Bisegger;Thomas Abel

  • Cultural capital and social inequality in health

    Thomas Abel

  • Quality of life in children and adolescents: a European public health perspective.

    Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer;Angela Gosch;Thomas Abel;Pascal Auquier

  • Conceptualizing contemporary health lifestyles : Moving beyond Weber

    William C. Cockerham;Alfred Rütten;Thomas Abel

  • Capitals and capabilities: linking structure and agency to reduce health inequalities.

    Thomas Abel;Katherine L. Frohlich

  • COVID-19: The forgotten priorities of the pandemic.

    Cristina Mesa Vieira;Oscar H. Franco;Carlos Gómez Restrepo;Thomas Abel

  • Measuring health lifestyles in a comparative analysis: theoretical issues and empirical findings.

    Thomas Abel

  • Just a subtle difference? Findings from a systematic review on definitions of nutrition literacy and food literacy

    Corinna Krause;Kathrin Sommerhalder;Sigrid Beer-Borst;Thomas Abel

  • The COVID-19 pandemic calls for spatial distancing and social closeness: not for social distancing!

    Thomas Abel;David McQueen

  • Critical health literacy and the COVID-19 crisis.

    Thomas Abel;David McQueen

  • Internet information and medical consultations: Experiences from patients’ and physicians’ perspectives

    Kathrin Sommerhalder;Andrea Abraham;Maria Caiata Zufferey;Jürgen Barth

  • Swiss residents' speciality choices – impact of gender, personality traits, career motivation and life goals

    Barbara Buddeberg-Fischer;Richard Klaghofer;Thomas Abel;Claus Buddeberg

  • Cultural Capital in Health Promotion

    Thomas Abel

  • MAX WEBER, FORMAL RATIONALITY, AND HEALTH LIFESTYLES

    William C. Cockerham;Thomas Abel;Günther Lüschen

  • Self reported physical activity, public health, and perceived environment: results from a comparative European study

    A Rütten;T Abel;L Kannas;T von Lengerke

Frequent Co-Authors

Lasse Kannas
Lasse Kannas University of Jyväskylä
Louise Potvin
Louise Potvin University of Montreal
William C. Cockerham
William C. Cockerham University of Alabama at Birmingham
Jürgen Barth
Jürgen Barth University of Zurich
Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer
Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Pascal Auquier
Pascal Auquier Aix-Marseille University
Mick Power
Mick Power National University of Singapore
Claus Buddeberg
Claus Buddeberg University of Zurich
Luis Rajmil
Luis Rajmil Government of Catalonia
John Frank
John Frank University of Edinburgh

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