Sonja Feer

Personal profile

Position at the ZHAW

Research Associate

www.zhaw.ch/de/gesundheit/forschung/forschung-public-health/

Expertise and research interests

Public Health, Work and Health, Health Literacy

Educational background

Master in Health Sciences, MA, 2016, University of Lucerne
Sportphysiotherapy, 2012, spt Magglingen
Bachelor in Physiotherapy, Bsc, 2011, ZHAW Winterthur

Membership of networks

• Public Health Schweiz
• International Health Literacy Association (IHLA)

Projects

• Gesundheitliche Ungleichheit im Kontext einer Verlängerung des Arbeitslebens / Team member / Project ongoing
• Machbarkeitsstudie Datenerhebung Kinder- und Jugendunfälle / Deputy project leader / Project completed
• Auswirkungen von Sport und Bewegung während der Arbeitszeit auf die Gesundheit und die Produktivität am Arbeitsplatz / Team member / Project completed
• Recherche zu internationalen Gesundheitsförderungs- und Präventions-Projekten für ältere Menschen / Team member / Project completed

Publications

• Feer, Sonja; Lipps, Oliver; Dratva, Julia; Baumann, Isabel,

  2022.

  Health and labor force participation among older workers in Switzerland : a growth curve analysis.

  European Journal of Ageing.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-022-00716-z

• Burkhalter, Denise; Wagner, Aylin; Feer, Sonja; Wieber, Frank; Ihle, Andreas; Baumann, Isabel,

  2022.

  Financial reasons for working beyond the statutory retirement age : risk factors and associations with health in late life.

  International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

  19(17), pp. 10505.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191710505

• Galliker, Sibylle; Nicoletti, Corinne; Feer, Sonja; Etzer-Hofer, Irene; Brunner, Beatrice; Grosse Holtforth, Martin; Melloh, Markus; Dratva, Julia; Elfering, Achim,

  2019.

  Quality of leadership and presenteeism in health professions education and research : a test of a recovery-based process model with cognitive irritation and impaired sleep as mediators.

  Psychology, Health & Medicine.

  25(2), pp. 239-251.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/13548506.2019.1634823

• Feer, Sonja; Lipps, Oliver; Dratva, Julia; Baumann, Isabel,

  2021.

  Health status and labour force participation among older workers in Switzerland : a growth curve analysis [poster].

  In:

  14th European Public Health Conference, online, 10-12 November 2021.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckab165.314

• Feer, Sonja; Lipps, Oliver; Dratva, Julia; Baumann, Isabel,

  2019.

  Health status and labour force participation among older workers in Switzerland : a multilevel for growth analysis [poster].

  In:

  IAGG-ER, Gothenburg, Sweden, 23-25 May 2019.

• Baumann, Isabel; Burkhalter, Denise; Wagner, Aylin; Feer, Sonja; Wieber, Frank; Ihle, Andreas,

  2022.

  Financial reasons for retiring after the statutory retirement age and health: evidence from Switzerland [paper].

  In:

  Epi Unit Meeting, Stress Research Institute, Stockholm University, Sweden, 2. May 2022.

• Dratva, Julia; Etzer-Hofer, Irene; Feer, Sonja; Sommer, Bettina,

  2020.

  Auswirkungen von Sport und Bewegung während der Arbeitszeit auf die Gesundheit und die Produktivität am Arbeitsplatz : Recherche Schweiz und International.

  Winterthur:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-21302

• Feer, Sonja; Nicoletti, Corinne; Etzer-Hofer, Irene; Melloh, Markus; Dratva, Julia,

  2018.

  Are our employees health literate who know what to do? : occupational health literacy in a university of applied sciences [paper].

  In:

  Swiss Public Health Conference 2018, Neuchâtel, 7-8 November 2018.

• Galliker, Sibylle; Elfering, Achim; Etzer-Hofer, Irene; Brunner, Beatrice; Nicoletti, Corinne; Dratva, Julia; Feer, Sonja; Holtforth, Martin grosse; Melloh, Markus,

  2019.

  Quality of leadership and presenteeism in health professions education and research : a test of a recovery-based process model with cognitive irritation and impaired sleep as mediators.

  In:

  19th EAWOP Congress, 29 May - 1 June 2019, Turin, Italy : Abstract Book.

  19th European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology Congress, Turin, 29 May - 1 June 2019.

  pp. 1765-1766.

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