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Introduction
Marc Höglinger is researcher and lecturer at the Winterthur Institute of Health Economics of the Zurich University of Applied Sciences. He studied Sociology in Zurich, started his graduate studies at the University of Bern and then joined the ETH Chair of Sociology where he accomplished his PhD.
Research areas: health services research, sociology of work and health, prosocial preferences and behavior, health related quality of life and life satisfaction, survey research, organizational science, policy and impact evaluations
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February 2017 - November 2019
July 2016 - February 2017
August 2010 - June 2016
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Publications (63)
Introduction
Adherence to digital proximity tracing apps and preventive measures leading up to and following widespread SARS-CoV-2 vaccine rollout remains unclear. Our study aims to evaluate the relative effect of digital proximity tracing app use, SARS-CoV-2 vaccine uptake and adherence to additional preventive measures in a localized context of t...
Background: As part of the Covid-19-restrictions in Switzerland, a federal ban on non-urgent examinations and treatments was applied to all hospitals during six weeks in spring 2020 (“spring lockdown”). The aim of this study was to comprehensively investigate the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic on Swiss inpatient admissions based on data of a...
Problem. Auch in der Schweiz leiden etwa 5% der Er-wachsenen an Diabetes mellitus Typ 1 oder 2 [1-4]. Um die Qualität der Diabetesbehandlung zu verbessern, werden strukturierte, evidenzbasierte Behandlungs-programme, sog. Disease-Management-Programme (DMP), empfohlen [2, 5, 6]. International wurden be-reits diverse DMPs für Diabetes mellitus evalui...
Background: Telemedicine health insurance models are highly prevalent in the Swiss health care system. Nevertheless, the potential of telemedicine is only partly being achieved, since current telemedicine health insurance models are limited to an initial contact by telephone and a gatekeeper role that organizes access to health care providers such...
Background:
Digital proximity tracing apps have been deployed in multiple countries to assist with SARS-CoV-2 pandemic mitigation efforts. However, it is unclear how their performance and effectiveness were affected by changing pandemic contexts and new viral variants of concern.
Objective:
The aim of this study is to bridge these knowledge gaps...
BACKGROUND
Digital proximity tracing apps have been deployed in multiple countries to assist with SARS-CoV-2 pandemic mitigation efforts. However, it is unclear how their performance and effectiveness were affected by changing pandemic contexts and new viral variants of concern.
OBJECTIVE
The aim of this study is to bridge these knowledge gaps thr...
Objective
To evaluate the impact of a DMP for patients with diabetes mellitus in a Swiss primary care setting.
Methods
In a prospective observational study, we compared diabetes patients in a DMP (intervention group; N = 538) with diabetes patients receiving usual care (control group; N = 5050) using propensity score matching with entropy balancin...
Zusammenfassung
Hintergrund Der Pflege- und Betreuungsbedarf von älteren, kranken und behinderten Personen in Privathaushalten ist teilweise ungedeckt und wird zunehmen. Zivildienstleistende (Zivis) könnten einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Entlastung pflegender Angehöriger leisten. Allerdings sind Akzeptanz und Bedarf bei Letzteren und bei den von ihnen...
Background:
Widespread vaccination uptake has been shown to be crucial in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences on healthcare infrastructures. Infection numbers, hospitalisation rates and mortality can be mitigated if large parts of the population are being vaccinated. However, one year after the introduction of COVID-19 vaccines,...
Background: Mitigation of the spread of infection relies on targeted approaches aimed at preventing nonhousehold interactions. Contact tracing in the form of digital proximity tracing apps has been widely adopted in multiple countries due to its perceived added benefits of tracing speed and breadth in comparison to traditional manual contact tracin...
Background
Switzerland has a liberal implementation of Coronavirus mitigation measures compared to other European countries. Since March 2020, measures have been evolving and include a mixture of central and federalistic mitigation strategies across three culturally diverse language regions. The present study investigates a hypothesised heterogenei...
BACKGROUND
Mitigation of pandemic spread relies on targeted approaches aimed at preventing non-household interactions. Contact tracing in the form of digital proximity tracing (DPT) apps has been widely adopted in multiple countries due to its perceived added benefits of tracing speed and breadth in comparison to traditional manual contact tracing...
Background
Mitigation of the spread of infection relies on targeted approaches aimed at preventing nonhousehold interactions. Contact tracing in the form of digital proximity tracing apps has been widely adopted in multiple countries due to its perceived added benefits of tracing speed and breadth in comparison to traditional manual contact tracing...
Background
Digital proximity tracing apps have been released to mitigate the transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus known to cause COVID-19. However, it remains unclear how the acceptance and uptake of these apps can be improved.
Objective
This study aimed to investigate the coverage of the SwissCovid app and the reasons for its nonuse in Switzerlan...
Die Vorstellung, dass Zivildienstleistende (Zivis) Angehörige unterstützungsbedürftiger Personen im Privathaushalt unterstützen könnten, trifft auf Akzeptanz in der Zielgruppe. Diese Studie zeigt
detailliert die vorliegenden Bedürfnisse sowie die Einsatzmodalitäten, welche die betreuenden Angehörigen und die unterstützten Personen wünschen. Als unt...
BACKGROUND
Digital proximity tracing (DPT) apps have been released to mitigate SARS-CoV-2 transmission. But it remains unclear how their acceptance and uptake can be improved.
OBJECTIVE
This study aimed to investigate SwissCovid app coverage and reasons for not using the app in Switzerland during a time of increasing SARS-CoV-2 incidence.
METHODS...
Background
The COVID-19 pandemic challenges societies in unknown ways, and individuals experience a substantial change in their daily lives and activities. Our study aims to describe these changes using population-based self-reported data about social and health behavior in a random sample of the Swiss population during the COVID-19 pandemic. The a...
Zusammenfassung
Nach Ausbruch der Corona-Pandemie wurde in der Schweiz Mitte März ein landesweiter Lockdown beschlossen. Dieser hatte extreme Auswirkungen auf das soziale Leben und die Gesundheitsversorgung. Der COVID-19 Social Monitor zeigt einige dieser gesellschaftlichen Veränderungen über die Zeit des Lockdowns und danach auf. Die Ergebnisse ze...
Digital proximity tracing (DPT) apps have been released to mitigate SARS-CoV-2 transmission, but it remains unclear how their effectiveness should be monitored. The aim of this study was to formalize indicators for measuring the fulfillment of assumptions for appropriate proximity tracing app functioning.
Six indicators were developed to monitor th...
Objectives
Structured treatment programs have been recommended for management of patients with chronic conditions to overcome ill-coordinated care. We aimed to evaluate a disease management program (DMP) with for diabetes mellitus in Switzerland.
Methods
We performed a prospective observational study with a propensity score-matched usual care contr...
Background:
As in other countries, there is concern and some fragmentary evidence that GPs' central role in the Swiss healthcare system as the primary provider of care might be changing or even be in decline. Our study gives a systematic account of GPs' involvement in accident care from 2008 to 2016 and identifies changes in GPs' involvement in th...
Aim: To estimate the health economic impact of osteosynthesis (OS) in fracture care over six decades in 17 high-income countries. Patients & methods: Applying a decision tree model, we assumed a hypothetical absence of OS and compared OS (intervention) with conservative treatment (CONS; comparator). We included patients with femur, tibia and radius...
BACKGROUND As in other countries, there is concern and some fragmentary evidence that GPs’ central role in the Swiss healthcare system might be changing or even be in decline. Our study gives a systematic account of GPs’ involvement in accident care from 2008 to 2016 and identifies changes in GPs’ involvement in this typical field of primary care:...
BACKGROUND As in other countries, there is concern that GPs’ central role in the Swiss healthcare system as the primary provider of care might be changing or even be in decline. Our study gives a systematic account of GPs’ involvement in accident care from 2008 to 2016 and identifies changes in GPs’ involvement in this typical field of primary care...
Objectives:
Sixty years ago, the Association of Osteosynthesis (AO) was founded with the aim to improve fracture treatment and has since grown into one of the largest medical associations worldwide. Aim of this study was to evaluate AO's impact on science, education, patient care and the MedTech business.
Design/methods:
Impact evaluations were...
Ziel dieser Studie ist es, für die ältere Schweizer Bevölkerung ab 55 Jahren den Gesundheits-zustand, die Lebensqualität und Alltagsautonomie, die Prävalenz von NCDs sowie den Einfluss von NCDs auf den Gesundheitszustand dieser Bevölkerungsgruppe zu untersuchen. Weiter wird das Gesundheitsverhalten der älteren Bevölkerung betrachtet, denn Bewegung...
Social desirability and the fear of sanctions can deter survey respondents from responding truthfully to sensitive questions. Self-reports on norm breaking behavior such as shoplifting, non-voting, or tax evasion may thus be subject to considerable misreporting. To mitigate such response bias, various indirect question techniques, such as the rando...
Validly measuring sensitive issues such as norm violations or stigmatizing traits through self-reports in surveys is often problematic. Special techniques for sensitive questions like the Randomized Response Technique (RRT) and, among its variants, the recent crosswise model should generate more honest answers by providing full response privacy. Di...
Social preferences are receiving increased attention in the social sciences, especially in behavioral economics and social psychology. From this arises the need to measure individuals’ social preferences in both the laboratory and in surveys of the broader population. The recently proposed SVO slider measure (Murphy et al. 2011) is supposed to be f...
Self-administered online surveys may provide a higher level of privacy protection to respondents than surveys administered by an interviewer. Yet, studies indicate that asking sensitive questions is problematic also in self-administered surveys. Because respondents might not be willing to reveal the truth and provide answers that are subject to soc...
Social desirability and the fear of negative consequences often deter a considerable share of survey respondents from truthfully responding to sensitive items such as own norm violations (e.g., nonvoting, tax evasion, cheating). As a consequence, the prevalence of norm violations is underestimated and results are inaccurate. Indirect techniques for...
