Publikationen Prof. Dr. Rasmus Hoffmann

 

H-Index = 30

2025 

Lehmann, J., Trübner, M., Patzina, A., Jeitler, M., Hoffmann, R., & Kessler, C.S. (2025). The willingness to transition to a more plant-based diet among omnivores: determinants and socioeconomic differences. Appetite, 206, 107765. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2024.107765

2024

Hoffmann R. "Gesundheit und Mortalit?t" im Handbuch Sozialstrukturanalyse, P. B?hnke, D. Konietzka (Hrsg.), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-39759-3_40-1.

Jeitler M., Ortiz M., Brinkhaus B., Sigl M., Hoffmann R., Trübner M., Michalsen A., Wischnewsky M., Kessler C.S., 2024. "Use and acceptance of traditional, complementary and integrative medicine in Germany - an online representative cross-sectional study" in "Frontiers in Medicine", Volume 11 - 2024, https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2024.1372924.

2023 

Hoffmann, R. 2023. "Soziale und politische Folgen der Corona-Pandemie und ihrer Bek?mpfung" (Sammelbesprechung). Soziologische Revue, 46(2): 130–146. 

Hoffmann, R. (Ed.). 2023. "Handbook of Health Inequalities Across the Life Course". Edward Elgar Publishing.

Hoffmann, R, Doblhammer Gabriele 2023 "Instrumental variables in studies of health and health inequalities" in "Handbook of Health Inequalities Across the Life Course". Edward Elgar Publishing: 127-143.

2022 

Hoffmann R 2022 "Soziale Ungleichheit in der Gesundheit - Trotz enormer Verbesserungen in der Gesundheit bestehen gro?e Unterschiede zwischen sozialen Gruppen" In: uni.vers Forschung (Mai 2022):44-47.

Hoffmann, R. 2022. "Ethischer Konsum nur für Reiche? ?koprodukte sind teurer." AOK Magazin - Agenda Gesundheit (1/2022): 7.

2021

Hoffmann R, Knabe A, Schmitt C (Hg.) 2021 ?Ungleichheit, Individualisierung, Lebenslauf: Zur Aktualit?t Peter A. Bergers“, Springer VS, Reihe Sozialstrukturanalyse

Hoffmann R, Knabe A, Schmitt C 2021 ??We are structure‘ - der Einfluss Peter A. Bergers auf drei Jahrzehnte der Sozialstrukturanalyse in Deutschland“, in Ungleichheit, Individualisierung, Lebenslauf: Zur Aktualit?t Peter A. Bergers, R. Hoffmann, A. Knabe, C. Schmitt (Hg.) Springer VS, Reihe Sozialstrukturanalyse

Hoffmann R, Doblhammer, G 2021 ?Approaches and methods for causal analysis of panel data in the area of morbidity and mortality” Comparative Population Studies, 46, Special Issue: Identification of causal mechanisms in demographic research: The contribution of panel data, J. Brüderl und J. Huinink (Hg.), April 2021.

Hoffmann R, Kr?ger H 2021 ?Comparing the educational gradients in three cardiovascular disease-specific health measures" Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, 12(4):591-607.

 

2020

Hoffmann R, Kr?ger H, Tarkiainen L, Martikainen P 2020 ?Mortality by education, occupational class and income in Finland in the 1990s and 2000s” Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, 11(4):551-585.

Hoffmann R, Kr?ger H, Pakpahan E 2020 ?Kausale Beziehungen zwischen sozialem Status und Gesundheit aus einer Lebensverlaufsperspektive” [reprint], in Handbuch Gesundheitssoziologie, M. Jungbauer-Gans und P. Kriwy (Hg.), Springer, Wiesbaden.

 

2019

Hoffmann R, Kr?ger H, Tarkiainen L, Martikainen P 2019 ?Dimensions of social stratification and their relation to mortality - A comparison across gender and life course periods in Finland”, Social Indicators Research, 145(1): 349-365.

Hoffmann R, Kr?ger H, Geyer S 2019 ?Social causation versus health selection in the life course – does their relative importance differ by dimension of SES?” Social Indicators Research, 141(3):1341–1367.

 

2018

Hoffmann R, Kr?ger H, Pakpahan E 2018 ?Pathways between socioeconomic status and health: Does health selection or social causation dominate in Europe?”, Advances in Life Course Research, 36:23-36.

Hoffmann R, Kr?ger H, Pakpahan E 2018 ?The reciprocal relationship between material factors and health in the life course – evidence from SHARE and ELSA”, European Journal of Ageing, 15(4):379-391.

Kr?ger H., Hoffmann R 2018 ?The association between CVD-related biomarkers and mortality in the Health and Retirement Survey” Demographic Research, 38(62), 1933-2002.  

Kr?ger H, Hoffmann R, Tarkiainen L, Martikainen P 2018 ?Comparing Observed and Unobserved Components of Childhood: Evidence From Finnish Register Data on Midlife Mortality From Siblings and Their Parents”, Demography, 55(1):295-318.   

 

2017

Hoffmann R, Kr?ger H, Pakpahan E 2017 ?Health inequalities and the interplay of socioeconomic factors and health in the life course” in: Handbook of Biology and Society, M. Meloni et al. (Hg.), Palgrave MacMillan.

Pakpahan E, Hoffmann R, Kr?ger H 2017 ?The long arm of childhood circumstances on health in old age: Evidence from SHARELIFE”, Advances in Life Course Research, 31:1-10.

Pakpahan E, Hoffmann R, Kr?ger H 2017 ?Retrospective life course data from European countries on how early life experiences determine health in old age and possible mid-life mediators”, Data in Brief, 10:277-282.

Pakpahan E, Kr?ger H, Hoffmann R 2017 ?Statistical Methods for Causal Analysis in Life Course Research: An illustration of a Cross Lagged Structural Equation Model and a Latent Growth Model” International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 20(1):1-19.

Hu Y, van Lenthe F, Hoffmann R, van Hedel K, Mackenbach JP 2017 ?Assessing the impact of natural policy experiments on socioeconomic inequalities in health: how to apply commonly used quantitative analytical methods?” BMC Medical Research Methodology, 17:68.

Alfonso-Sanchez JL, Mackenbach J, Hoffmann R, Westerling R, Alfonso-Landete G 2017 ?Evidence on the association between socioeconomic resources and amenable mortality” International Journal of Health Sciences and Research, 7(4):370-379.

Gadeyne S. Menvielle G, Kulhanova I, Bopp M, Deboosere P, Eikemo TA, Hoffmann R, Kovács K, Leinsalu M, Martikainen P, Regidor E, Rychtarikova J, Spadea T, Strand BH, Trewin C, Wojtyniak B, Mackenbach JP 2017 ?The turn of the gradient? Educational differences in breast cancer mortality in 18 European populations during the 2000s” International Journal of Cancer, 141:33-44.

 

2016

Hoffmann R, Kr?ger H, Pakpahan E 2016 ?Kausale Beziehungen zwischen sozialem Status und Gesundheit aus einer Lebensverlaufsperspektive”, in Handbuch Gesundheitssoziologie, M. Jungbauer-Gans und P. Kriwy (Hg.), Springer, Wiesbaden.

Hoffmann R, Hu Y, de Gelder R, Menvielle G, Bopp M, Mackenbach JP 2016 ?The impact of increasing income inequalities on educational inequalities in mortality -  An analysis of six European countries”, International Journal for Equity in Health 15:103.

Kr?ger H, Pakpahan E, Hoffmann R 2016 ?Consequences of measurement error for inference in cross-lagged panel design—the example of the reciprocal causal relationship between subjective health and socio-economic status” Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 179(2):607-628.

Kr?ger H, Fritzell J, Hoffmann R 2016 ?The association of levels of and decline in grip strength in old age with trajectories of life course occupational position”, PlosOne 11(5).

Kulhánová I, Menvielle G, Hoffmann R, Eikemo TA, Kulik MC, Toch-Marquardt M, Deboosere P, Leinsalu M, Lundberg O, Regidor E, Looman CWN, Mackenbach JP 2016 ?The role of three lifestyle risk factors in reducing educational differences in ischaemic heart disease mortality in Europe”, European Journal of Public Health 26(6):1081-1088.

 

2015

Hoffmann R, Eikemo T, Kulhánová I, Kulik M, Looman C, Menvielle G, Deboosere P, Martikainen P, Regidor E, Mackenbach J 2015 ?Obesity and the potential reduction of social inequalities in mortality: Evidence from 21 European populations” European Journal of Public Health 25(5): 849-856.

Hoffmann R 2015 ?How much does obesity contribute to health inequality? Evidence from 18 European countries” als leicht verst?ndliche Zusammenfassung des obigen Artikels im European Journal of Public Health auf http://atlasofscience.org/how-much-does-obesity.

Kr?ger H, Pakpahan E, Hoffmann R 2015 ?What Causes Health Inequality? A systematic Review on the Relative Importance of Social Causation and Health Selection” European Journal of Public Health 25(6):951-960.

Kr?ger H, Hoffmann R 2015 ?Who can realise their retirement plans? Poor health and employment crises as factors of exclusion” in Ageing in Europe - Supporting Policies for an Inclusive Society. SHARE Wave 5 First Results Book, A. B?rsch-Supan et al. (Hg.), De Gruyter, Berlin.

Gross C, Schübel T, Hoffmann R 2015 ?Picking up the Pieces – Applying the DISEASE FILTER to Health Data” Health Policy 119:549-557.

Vandenheede H, Deboosere P, Espelt A, Bopp M, Borrell C, Costa G, Eikemo TA, Gnavi R, Hoffmann R, Kulhánová I, Kulik MC, Leinsalu M, Martikainen P, Menvielle G, Rodríguez-Sanz M, Rychta?íková J, Mackenbach JP, for the EURO-GBD-SE consortium 2015 ?Educational inequalities in diabetes mortality across Europe in the 2000s: the interaction with gender” International Journal of Public Health 60:401-410.

Mackenbach J, Kulhánová I, Bopp M, Deboosere P, Eikemo TA, Hoffmann R, Kulik M, Leinsalu M, Martikainen P, Menvielle G, Regidor E, Wojtyniak B, ?stergren O, Lundberg O, for the EURO-GBD-SE Consortium 2015 ?Variations in the relation between education and cause-specific mortality in 19 European populations: A test of the ?fundamental causes” theory of social inequalities in health” Social Science & Medicine 127:51-62.

Mackenbach JP, Kulhánová I, Menvielle G, Bopp M, Borrell C, Costa G, Deboosere P, Esnaola S, Kalediene R, Kovacs K, Leinsalu M, Martikainen P, Regidor E, Rodriguez-Sanz M, Strand BH, Hoffmann R, Eikemo TA, Ostergren O, Lundberg O; for the Eurothine and EURO-GBD-SE consortiums 2015 ?Trends in Inequalities in premature Mortality: A Study of 3.2 Million Deaths in 13 European Countries“ Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 69(3):207-217.

Marí-Dell’Olmo M, Dominguez F, Dzurova D, Gandarillas A, Hoffmann R, Kovacs K, Martikainen P, Demaria M, Pikhart H, Rodríguez-Sanz M, Saez, M, Santana, P 2015 ?Socioeconomic inequalities in cause-specific mortality in fifteen European cities” Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 69(5):432-441.

 

2014

Hoffmann R, Plug I, McKee M, Khoshaba B, Westerling R, Looman C, Rey G, Jougla E, Lang K, P?rna K, Mackenbach JP  2014 ?Innovations in health care and mortality trends from five cancers in seven European countries between 1970 and 2005” International Journal of Public Health 59(2):341-350.

Hoffmann R, Borsboom G, Saez M, Mari Dell'Olmo M, Burstr?m B, Corman D, Costa C, Deboosere P, Domínguez-Berjón MF, Dzúrová D, Gandarillas A, Gotsens M, Kovács K, Mackenbach J, Martikainen P, Maynou L, Morrison J, Palència L, Pérez G, Pikhart H, Rodríguez-Sanz M, Santana P, Saurina C, Tarkiainen L, Borrell C 2014 ?Social differences in avoidable mortality between small areas of 15 European cities: an ecological study” International Journal of Health Geographics 13:8.

Eikemo TA, Hoffmann R, Kulik MC, Kulhánová I, Toch-Marquardt M, Menvielle G, Looman C, Jasilionis D, Martikainen P, Lundberg O, Mackenbach JP; EURO-GBD-SE consortium 2014 ?How can inequalities in mortality be reduced? A quantitative analysis of 6 risk factors in 21 European populations“ PLoS One 9(11).

Kulhánová I, Hoffmann R, Eikemo T, Menvielle G, Mackenbach J 2014 ?Educational inequalities in mortality by cause of death: first national data for the Netherlands” International Journal of Public Health 59(5):687-696.

Kulhánová I, Hoffmann R, Eikemo T, Menvielle G, Mackenbach J 2014 ?Sociaal-economische verschillen in sterfte naar doodsoorzaak - Eerste Nederlandse gegevens” niederl?ndische ?bersetzung in Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde 158:A8188.

Kulhánová I, Hoffmann R, Judge K, Looman CW, Eikemo TA, Bopp M, Deboosere P, Leinsalu M, Martikainen P, Rychta?íková J, Wojtyniak B, Menvielle G, Mackenbach JP, EURO-GBD-SE Consortium  2014 ?Assessing the potential impact of increased participation in higher education on mortality: Evidence from 21 European populations” Social Science & Medicine 117:142-149.

Kulhánová I, Menvielle G, Bopp M, Borrell C, Deboosere P, Eikemo TA, Hoffmann R, Leinsalu M, Martikainen P, Regidor E, Rodríguez-Sanz M, Rychta?íková J, Wojtyniak B, Mackenbach JP 2015 ?Socieconomic inequalities in quality of cause-of-death information: A study of ill-defined causes of death in 16 European countries” BMC Public Health, 14:1295.

Westerling R, Westin M, McKee M, Hoffmann R, Plug I, Rey G, Jougla E, Lang K, P?rna K, Alfonso JL, Mackenbach JP 2014 ?The timing of introduction of pharmaceutical innovations in seven European countries” Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 20(4):301-310.

Morrison J, Pons-Vigués M, Bécares L, Burstr?m B, Gandarillas A, Domínguez-Berjón F, Diez E, Costa G, Ruiz M, Pikhart H, Marinacci C, Hoffmann R, Santana P, Borrell C; partners from the INEQ-Cities Project 2014 ?Perceptions and beliefs of public policymakers in 13 European cities of Europe” BMJ Open 4(5).

Pons-Vigués M, Diez ?, Morrison J, Salas-Nicás S, Hoffmann R, Burstrom B, van Dijk JP, Borrell C 2014 ?Social and health policies or interventions to tackle health inequalities in European cities: a scoping review” BMC Public Health 14(198).

Diez E, Morrison J, Pons-Vigués M, Borrell C, Corman D, Burstr?m B, Dominguez-Berjón F, Gandarillas A, Hoffmann R, Santana P, Camprubí L 2014 ?Municipal interventions against inequalities in health: The view of their managers“ Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 42(6):476-487.

Borrell C, Marí-Dell'olmo M, Palència L, Gotsens M, Burstr?m BO, Domínguez-Berjón F, Rodríguez-Sanz M, Dzúrová D, Gandarillas A, Hoffmann R, Kovacs K, Marinacci C, Martikainen P, Pikhart H, Corman D, Rosicova K, Saez M, Santana P, Tarkiainen L, Puigpinós R, Morrison J, Pasarín MI, Díez ? 2014 ?Socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in 16 cities of Europe” Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 42(3):245-254.

 

2012-2013

Hoffmann R, Eikemo TA, Kulhánová I, Dahl E, Deboosere P, Dzúrová D, van Oyen H, Rychtaríková J, Strand BH, Mackenbach JP 2013 ?The potential impact of a social redistribution of specific risk factors on socioeconomic inequalities in mortality - illustration of a method based on Population Attributable Fractions” Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 67(1):56-62.

Hoffmann R, Plug I, Khoshaba B, McKee M, Mackenbach JP, AMIEHS working group 2013 ?Amenable mortality revisited; the AMIEHS study” Gaceta Sanitaria 27(3):199-206.

Hoffmann R, Plug I, McKee M, Khoshaba B, Westerling R, Looman C, Rey G, Jougla E, Luis Alfonso J, Lang K, P?rna K, Mackenbach J 2013 ?Innovations in medical care and mortality trends from four circulatory diseases between 1970 and 2005” European Journal of Public Health 23(5):852-857.

Mackenbach JP, Hoffmann R, Khoshaba B, Plug I, Rey G, Westerling R, P?rna K, Jougla E, Alfonso J, Looman C, McKee M 2013 ?Using ‘amenable mortality’ as indicator of healthcare effectiveness in international comparisons: results of a validation study” Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 67(2):139-146.

Kulik MC, Hoffmann R, Judge K, Looman C, Menvielle G, Kulhánová I, Toch M, Ostergren O, Martikainen P, Borrell C, Rodríguez-Sanz M, Bopp M, Leinsalu M, Jasilionis D, Eikemo TA, Mackenbach JP 2013 ?Smoking and the potential for reduction of inequalities in mortality in Europe” European Journal of Epidemiology 28(12):959-971.

Plug I, Hoffmann R, Artnik B, Bopp M, Borrell C, Costa G, Deboosere P, Esnaola S, Kalediene R, Leinsalu M, Lundberg O, Martikainen P, Regidor E, Rychtarikova J, Strand BH, Wojtyniak B, Mackenbach JP 2012 ?Socioeconomic inequalities in mortality from conditions amenable to medical interventions: do they reflect inequalities in access or quality of health care?” BMC Public Health 12:346 (?highly accessed”).

Borrell C, Morrison J, Burstrom B, Pons-Vigués M, Hoffmann R, Gandarillas A, Martikainen P, Domínguez-Berjón MF, Tarkiainen L, Díez E 2013 ?Comparison of health policy documents of European cities: are they oriented to reduce inequalities in health?” Journal of Public Health Policy 34(1):100-120.

Gotsens M, Marí-Dell'Olmo M, Pérez K, Palència L, Martinez-Beneito MA, Rodríguez-Sanz M, Burstr?m B, Costa G, Deboosere P, Domínguez-Berjón F, Dzúrová D, Gandarillas A, Hoffmann R, Kovacs K, Marinacci C, Martikainen P, Pikhart H, Rosicova K, Saez M, Santana P, Riegelnig J, Schwierz C, Tarkiainen L, Borrell C 2013 ?Socioeconomic inequalities in injury mortality in small areas of 15 European cities“ Health & Place 24:165-172.

Borrell C, Palència L, Pons-Vigués M, Marí Dell’Olmo M, Gotsens M, Morrison J, Díez E, the INEQCITIES group 2012 ?European Review of Social Determinants of Health” in Interim Second Report on Social Determinants of Health and the Health Divide in the European Region. WHO Report, Sir M. Marmot (Hg.).

 

2010-2011

Hoffmann R 2011 ?Illness, not age, is the leveler of social mortality differences in old age” Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences 66(5):374-379.

Hoffmann R 2011 ?Socioeconomic inequalities in old-age mortality: A comparison of Denmark and the USA” Social Science & Medicine, 72(12):1986-1992.

Hoffmann R 2011 ?Social mortality differentials in Denmark and in the USA – Very different or very similar? A reply to Avendano and Galama” Social Science & Medicine 73(11): 1573-1574.

Doblhammer G, Hoffmann R 2010 ?Gender differences in trajectories of health limitations and subsequent mortality. A study based on the German Socio-Economic Panel 1995-2001 with a mortality follow up 2002-2005” Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences 65(4):482-491.

Doblhammer G, Hoffmann R, Muth E, Westphal C, Kruse A 2010 ?A systematic literature review of studies analyzing the effects of sex, age, education, marital Status, obesity and smoking on health transitions” Demographic Research 20(5):37-64.

Doblhammer G, Hoffmann R, Muth E, Nusselder W 2010 ?The effect of Sex, Obesity and Smoking on health Transitions: A statistical meta-analysis”, in Aging, Care Need, and Quality of Life, VS-Verlag, Wiesbaden, 114-142.

Carlson E, Hoffmann R 2011 ?The State Socialist Mortality Syndrome” Population Research and Policy Review 30(3):355-379.

Rey G, Aouba A, Pavillon G., Hoffmann R, Plug I., Westerling R, Jougla E, Mackenbach J 2011 ?Cause-specific mortality time series analysis: a general method to detect and correct for abrupt data production changes” Population Health Metrics 9:52.

 

2008-2009

Hoffmann R 2008 ?Socioeconomic Differences in Old Age Mortality”, Monograph in der Serie Demographic Methods and Population Analysis“, K. Land (Hg.), Vol. 25, Springer, Dordrecht.

Hoffmann R 2008 ?Arm oder reich? – Erst bei Krankheit bedeutungslos. Studie über soziale Sterblichkeitsunterschiede im Alter st?rkt Pr?ventionsgedanken” Demografische Forschung aus erster Hand, Jg. 5, No. 2.

Hoffmann R 2008 ?Inégalités sociales devant la mort et en matière de santé aux Danemark et aux Etats-Unis“, in Populations d'ici et d'ailleurs. Regards croisés, Actes du colloque international jeunes chercheurs en démographie, CERPOS.

Hoffmann R 2008 ?Soziale Ungleichheit in der Altersmortalit?t in D?nemark und den USA – Faktoren und ihre Wirkungsweise“, in Health Inequalities – Determinanten und Mechanismen gesundheitlicher Ungleichheit, U. Bauer, U. Bittlingmayer, M. Richter (Hg.), VS-Verlag, Wiesbaden, 403-429.

Andreev EM, Hoffmann R, Carlson ED, Shkolnikov V, Kharkova TL 2009 ?Concentration of Working-Age Male Mortality among Manual Workers in Urban Latvia and Russia, 1970-1989” European Societies 11(8):8161-185.

 

2003-2007

Hoffmann R 2003 ?Der Zusammenhang zwischen sozialen und ?kologischen Problemen. Führt das Leitbild der Nachhaltigkeit zu trügerischer Harmonie?“ Forum Recht, 3(3):76-79.

Hoffmann R 2005 ?Do socioeconomic mortality differences decrease with rising age?” Demographic Research 13(2):35-62.

Hoffmann R 2006 ?Nachhaltiger Konsum nur für Reiche? Der Zusammenhang von Wohlstandsniveau und Konsumverhalten“, in Soziale Ungleichheit, Kulturelle Unterschiede, Verhandlungen des 32. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, K.-S. Rehberg (Hg.) Campus, Frankfurt, 2787-2801.

Uriona V, Hoffmann R 2007 ?Rette sich wer kann! Jugend in Argentinien und Deutschland: ein st?ndiges déjà-vu“, in Globale Jugend und Jugendkulturen. Aufwachsende im Zeitalter der Globalisierung, D. Villányi, M. D. Witte, U. Sander (Hgs.), Juventa, Weinheim/München, 95-115.