Sonja Feer

Work at ZHAW

Position

Research Associate

Focus

Public Health research with focus on child and adolescent health, health monitoring, Work and Health, Health Literacy

Teaching

• Health Literacy
• Research Methods

Experience

• Reserach Associate
  ZHAW, Institut of Public Health
  04 / 2018 - today
• Physiotherapist
  various hospitals and practices in Switzerland
  08 / 2011 - 06 / 2015

Education and Continuing education

Education

• Master in Health Sciences
  University of Lucerne
  08 / 2014 - 06 / 2016
• Sportphysiotherapeutin
  spt Magglingen
  01 / 2011 - 12 / 2012
• Bachelor in Physiotherapy
  ZHAW
  08 / 2007 - 07 / 2011

Network

Membership of networks

European Public Health Association

Projects

• Entwicklung eines Machine-Learning Programms für ein Monitoring von Kinder- und Jugendunfällen / Deputy project leader / Project ongoing
• Health inequalities and the prolongation of working life / Team member / Project ongoing
• Why do some older workers with adverse health conditions remain in the labor force while others exit early? / Team member / Project completed
• Generationsübergreifende Begegnung und Bewegung auf dem Sulzer-Areal / Project co-leader / Project completed
• 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; Feer, Sonja; Benz-Steffen, Erica; Roth, Ulrich,

  2024.

  Recherche participative sur la transition de la vie professionnelle à la retraite

  .

  In:

  Maeder, Pascal; Chimienti, Milena; Cretton, Viviane; Maggiori, Christian; Probst, Isabelle; Rullac, Stéphane, eds.,

  Innovation et intervention sociales.

  Seismo.

  pp. 110-111.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.33058/seismo.20764

• 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.

• Feer, Sonja; Zysset, Annina; Dratva, Julia,

  2023.

  Machbarkeitsstudie Datenerhebung Kinder- und Jugendunfälle.

  Bern:

  BFU, Beratungsstelle für Unfallverhütung.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-2439

• Baumann, Isabel; Feer, Sonja,

  2023.

  Wenn die Gesundheit nicht mitspielt.

  Gerontologie CH : Praxis + Forschung.

  2023(1), pp. 8-9.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-27150

• 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.

• Feer, Sonja; Zysset, Annina; Bächli, Mirjam; Niemann, Steffen; Dratva, Julia,

  2023.

  Wie ist die Datenlage zu Kinder- und Jugendunfällen in der Schweiz? : eine Machbarkeitsstudie zur Prüfung bestehender Datenquellen und neuer methodischen Ansätze.

  In:

  Swiss Public Health Conference, Lausanne, Schweiz, 12.-13. September 2023.

• Juvalta, Sibylle; Feer, Sonja; Dratva, Julia,

  2023.

  Digital health literacy – an evolving concept.

  In:

  16th European Public Health Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 8-11 November 2023.

  Oxford University Press.

  pp. ii45-ii46.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckad160.121

• Feer, Sonja; Juvalta, Sibylle; Dratva, Julia,

  2023.

  Measuring digital health literacy in children and adolescents.

  In:

  16th European Public Health Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 8-11 November 2023.

  Oxford University Press.

  pp. ii46.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckad160.122

• 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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