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 research with focus on child and adolescent health, health monitoring, 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

• Why do some older workers with adverse health conditions remain in the labor force while others exit early? / Team member / Project ongoing
• Health inequalities and the prolongation of working life / 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
• Research on international health promotion and prevention projects for the elderly / 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.

  19(4), pp. 1395-1406.

  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; Wagner, Aylin; Feer, Sonja; Ihle, Andreas; Kliegel, Matthias,

  2023.

  Does raising retirement age affect retirees’ health? : evidence from a Swiss reform [poster].

  In:

  Epidemiology Symposium "Causality to Get Population Health Sciences Right", EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland, 29 March 2023.

• Baumann, Isabel; Feer, Sonja,

  2023.

  Wenn die Gesundheit nicht mitspielt.

  Gerontologie CH : Praxis + Forschung.

  2023(1).

• 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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