Dr. PH Nicholas Adjei

Abteilung: Prävention und Evaluation
Fachgruppe: Sozialepidemiologie

LEBENSLAUF

seit 2016 Doktorand Public Health, Universität Bremen
2015 Masterabschluss Demography, Universität Stockholm, Schweden
2010 Winter School “Policies and Reproductive Behavior”, Fakultät Statistik, Universität Padua, Italien
2008 Bachelorabschlus Sociology & Social Work, Kwame Nkrumah Universität der Wissenschaften und Technologie,Ghana

WISSENSCHAFTLICHE ERFAHRUNGEN

Seit 2016 Doctorand, Leibniz Institute für Präventionsforschung und Epidemiologie - BIPS, Bremen
2013 - 2014 Institut für Zukunftsforschung, Schweden, wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Projektt “EU-FP7 AGENTA Project, Ageing Europe”
2012 - 2013 Institut für Zukunftsforschung, Schweden, wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Projekt “National Account Project”
2008 - 2010 Amt frü Statistik, Projektverantwortlicher für das Projekt “2010 Ghana Population & Housing Census project”.

Gesundheitliche Ungleichheit
Genderforschung
Alter und Altern
Zeitverwendung
Demographie
Sozialpolitik
Wohlfahrtsstaaten

Ausgewählte BIPS-Veröffentlichungen

Zeitschriftenartikel mit peer-review
Mukora-Mutseyekwa F, Zeeb H, Nengomasha L, Adjei N. Trends in prevalence and related risk factors of overweight and obesity among women of reproductive age in Zimbabwe, 2005-2015. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2019;16(15):2758.
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16152758
Adjei N, Brand T. Investigating the associations between productive housework activities, sleep hours and self-reported health among elderly men and women in western industrialised countries. BMC Public Health. 2018;18:110.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4979-z
Adjei N, Jonnson KR, Brand T. Time spent on work-related activities, social activities and time pressure as intermediary determinants of health disparities among elderly women and men in 5 European countries: A structural equation model. International Journal for Equity in Health. 2018;17:121.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-018-0840-y
Adjei N, Billingsley S. Childbearing behavior before and after the 1994 population policies in Ghana. Population Research and Policy Review. 2017;36(2):251-271.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11113-017-9426-4
https://repository.publisso.de/resource/frl%3A6421678
Adjei N, Brand T, Zeeb H. Gender inequality in self-reported health among the elderly in contemporary welfare countries: A cross-country analysis of time use activities, socioeconomic positions and family characteristics. PLOS ONE. 2017;12(9):e0184676.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0184676
Vorträge bei wissenschaftlichen Tagungen
Adjei N, Jonsson KR, Brand T. Psychosocial determinants of health disparities among elderly women and men in Europe. 11th European Public Health Conference (EUPHA), 27 November-1 December 2018, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Adjei N, Brand T, Zeeb H. Investigating socio-economic explanations for gender and cross-national inequalities in self-reported health among the elderly in contemporary welfare countries. International Population Conference (IPC), 29 October-4 November 2017, Cape Town, South Africa.
Vorträge bei wissenschaftlichen Tagungen (eingeladen)
Adjei N, Brand T, Zeeb H. Gender inequality in health among the elderly. Public Health Conference: "Key Issues in Current Health Research: Ageing - Health - Equity", 29-30 June 2017, Bremen.