Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Axel Olaf Kern

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?

Thinkers' conference of our Master's degree program Management in Social and Health Care

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

Financing the healthcare system - consequences of privatization

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.

Reforming MSWM in Sukunan (Yogjakarta, Indonesia) A case-study of applying a zero-waste approach based on circular economy paradigm Elsevier Enhanced Reader

A societal transition of MSW management in Xiamen (China) toward a circular economy through integrated waste recycling and technological digitization

Harnessing landfill gas LFG for electricity - A strategy to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Jakarta (Indonesia).

CENTER FOR HEALTH AND SOCIAL POLICY (CHSP)

Marketing and social work	Importance of complementary medicine in Baden-Württemberg
Social work in hospitals	The future of healthcare - "Elementar+" benefits catalog

Integration of the patient's perspective in the context of Health Technology Assessments	Corporate health management in small and micro enterprises
Market withdrawals of pharmaceuticals due to the early benefit assessment under the AMNOG	Reforming Municipal Solid Waste Management in Indonesia Using Market Instruments: Applying a Co-Benefit Approach in Green Economy Paradigm for an Emerging Economic Country
Leadership Culture and Digitalization in the Social and Health Economy Weiterdenkertagung19; May 03, 2019; Conference documentation
Self-governance in statutory health insurance in the light of the 2017 social elections	Elementary economic insights into healthcare not only in times of the corona crisis - Essayistic commentary -
Contribution to the emancipation of social work from criminology-theoretically based contract work in probation services using the example of the Baden-Württemberg Probation and Court Assistance Service (BGBW)	Working Paper 14 -  Sustainable Development Cooperation in the Field of Schooling and Education in Sub-Saharan Africa - Social Work Perspective -
Working Paper 15: Digital Transformation in the Social and Health Economy