Axel Olaf Kern is Professor of Health Economics at the Ravensburg Weingarten University of Applied Sciences. His research focuses on the strategic management of social and healthcare facilities against the background of structural changes in care requirements due to current and future demographic and technological changes.
At RWU, he is the founding dean of the Bachelor's degree program "Health Economics", has been dean of the part-time Master's degree program "Management in Social and Health Care" for 20 years and also heads the Steinbeis Transfer Center for Health and Social System Research. Before his academic career, he was deputy managing director of the IGSF Kiel - WHO Collaborating Center for Public Health Research.
Exciting questions prepared for you in the media:
The future of social welfare services
https://politik.watson.de/deutschland/analyse/315965153-corona-pandemie-was-fuer-3g-2g-impfpflicht-spricht-und-was-dagegen
Club openings under corona conditions Evaluation model project according to § 21 para. 11 CoronaVO of the city of Ravensburg and the clubs Kantine and Douala. - First results -
Welfenfest-Öffnung unter Coronabedingungen Evaluation model project according to § 21 Abs. 11 CoronaVO of the city of Weingarten and the Welfenfestkommission e.V. - First results
Structure of healthcare provision
Podcast "How do we get through the corona crisis" (Schwäbische Zeitung, 22.03.2020)
Health economics in times of Corona
About this episode: The coronavirus pandemic has brought healthcare systems around the world to the brink of collapse. In Germany, too, there was great fear for a long time that there might not be enough beds and ventilators to care for seriously ill coronavirus patients. Have we cut costs at the wrong end? Does more money need to flow into the healthcare system to be prepared for crises like the one we are facing now?
WHY... ?
WHY... our Youtube channel for YOU
Why... Healthcare cannot be thought of without economics?
WHY... are there so few ventilation places?
WHY... do we manage?
Further Thinkers' Conference 21 - PART II expected on March 4, 2022 - Program and link to registration
Articles and interviews
Role model function and expectations of superiors, subordinates and peers with OTA Dr Jörg Ruff and OTA Dr Wolfgang Kaiser
Schwäbische Zeitung from 01.02.2021
The Catholic News Agency asked me about the costs and lessons of the corona crisis (06.04.2020)
Alumnus of the Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin)
Bergmeister, K./ Große-Hartlage, L./ Kern, A. et al. (2020): Acute and long-term costs of 268 peripheral nerve injuries in the upper extremity, in: PLoS ONE 15(4): e0229530.
CENTER FOR HEALTH AND SOCIAL POLICY (CHSP)
