Hanno Hoven
About
Hanno is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Centre of Global Health Inequalities Research (CHAIN) at the Department of Sociology and Political Science of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He is also head of Epidemiology at the Institute for Occupational and Maritime Medicine at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany. His research focuses on health inequalities and life course epidemiology, social determinants of health, psychosocial working conditions and employment histories.
Publications
Jessen B, Löwe B, Twerenbold R, Härter M, Harth V, Hoven H, Schmidt-Lauber C, Huber TB, Shedden-Mora M (2026). Biopsychosocial correlates of Somatic Symptom Burden in CKD: Results of the Hamburg City Health Study (HCHS). Kidney360. doi: 10.34067/KID.0000001130.
Gerő K, Backhaus-Hoven I, Höhmann A, Dragano N, Hoven H (2025). Low income and health literacy: a systematic scoping review. Archives of Public Health 83:291. doi: 10.1186/s13690-025-01781-3.
Hoven H, Eikemo T, Backhaus-Hoven I, Riebler A, Fitzgerald R, Martino S, Huijts T, Heggebø K, Vidaurre-Teixidó P, Bambra C, Balaj M (2025). The second Health Inequalities Module in the European Social Survey (ESS): Methodology and research opportunities. Social Science & Medicine 380:118228 doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118228.
Hsu Y-T, Hoven H, Grodstein F, Liu T-H, Chang C-R, Kawachi I (2025). Social Participation Trajectories in Late Life and Cognitive Functioning – a Sequence Analysis Based on Taiwan Longitudinal Study on Aging. SSM - Population Health 31: 101821. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2025.101821.
Damerau LS, Herold R, Preisser AM, Haack A, Petersen EL, Waschki B, Magnussen C, Koch P, Nienhaus A, Harth V, Hoven H (2025). Comparison of self-reported and job-exposure matrix assessed workplace inhalant exposures and their association with obstructive airways disease. Scientific Reports 15: 14099. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-95923-w.
Labe F, Twerenbold R, Toprak B, Koch P, Zyriax B-C, Affolderbach S, Damerau L, Hoven H, Zeeb H, Herold R, Harth V (2025). Occupational exposures and coronary heart disease in the Hamburg City Health Study (HCHS) – a cross-sectional study. BMC Public Health 25, 180. doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-21259-1.
Horn MA, Velasco Garrido M, Herold R, Holzgräwe-Eichmann J, Suraj S, Hoven H, Mache S, Harth V, Preisser AM (2025). Indikatoren zur Bewertung der betriebsärztlichen und sicherheitstechnischen Versorgungsqualität. Arbeitsmedizin, Sozialmedizin, Umweltmedizin 05-2025. doi: 10.17147/asu-1-442195.
Buck L, Peters L, Maehder K, Hartel F, Hoven H, Harth V, Härter M, Löwe B, Toussaint A (2025). Risk of somatic symptom disorder in people with major medical disorders: Cross-sectional results from the population-based Hamburg City health study. Journal of Psychosomatic Research 189:111997. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2024.111997.
Holzgräwe-Eichmann J, Suraj S, Horn MA, Velasco Garrido M, Preisser AM, Hoven H, Herold R, Harth V, Mache S (2025). Digitale Anwendungen in der arbeitsmedizinischen Versorgung. Eine Literaturübersicht. Zentralblatt für Arbeitsmedizin, Arbeitsschutz und Ergonomie. doi: 10.1007/s40664-025-00590-3.
Backhaus I, Dragano N, Di Tecco C, Iavicoli S, Hoven H (2024). Trends in negative interpersonal relationships at work and awareness of occupational safety and health services: A 2014-2019 trend analysis. Journal of Occupational Health: uiae043. doi: 10.1093/joccuh/uiae043.
Klimesch A, Ascone L, Schmager A, Petersen E, Hoven H, von dem Knesebeck O, Gallinat J, Kühn S (2024). The differential role of socioeconomic status dimensions in depressive symptoms of aging adults: data from the Hamburg City Health cohort Study. Frontiers in Public Health 12. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1430325.
Andrees V, Bei der Kellen R, Augustin M, Gallinat J, Harth H, Hoven H, Kühn S, Lautenbach A, Magnussen C, Mohr N, Twerenbold R, Schäfer I, Waschki B, Zyriax B-C, Augustin J (2024). Spatial characteristics of non-communicable diseases and their associations to social conditions in a large urban cohort in Germany - Results from the Hamburg City Health Study. PLoS ONE 19(4): e0301475. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0301475.
Weber S, Mascherek A, Augustin J, Cheng B, Thomalla G, Hoven H, Harth V, Augustin M, Gallinat J, Kühn S (2024). My home-my castle? Self-reported anxiety varies in relation to the subjective evaluation of home environment. Frontiers in Psychology 14:1267900. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1267900
Reißmann DR, Lamprecht R, Koch-Gromus U, Borof K, Kofahl C, Härter M, Büschel J, Harth V, Hoven H, Kahl-Nieke B, Beikler T, Heydecke G, Aarabi G (2023). Zusammenhang von Mundgesundheitskompetenz und -verhalten mit psychischer Mundgesundheit. Welche Rolle kann die zahnmedizinische Ausbildung spielen? Bundesgesundheitsblatt 66:1320–1327. doi: 10.1007/s00103-023-03793-2
Kopasker D, Katikireddi SV, Santos J.V, Richiardi M, Bronka P, Rostila M, Cecchini M, Ali S, Emmert-Fees K, Bambra C, Hoven H, Backhaus I, Balaj M, Eikemo TA (2023). Microsimulation as a flexible tool to evaluate policies and their impact on socioeconomic inequalities in health. The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, 34, 100758. doi: 10.1016/j.lanepe.2023.100758
Preisser A, Damerau L, Helm M, Hoven H, Harth V (2024). Bäckerasthma in Zeiten gesetzlicher Änderungen und der neuen S2k-Leitlinie "Fachärztliche Diagnostik und Therapie von Asthma". Arbeitsmedizin Sozialmedizin Umweltmedizin 59(9):560-562. doi: 10.17147/asu-1-384615
Hoven H, Backhaus I, Gerő K, Kawachi I (2023). Characteristics of employment history and self-perceived barriers to healthcare access. European Journal of Public Health 33(6):1080–1087. doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckad178
Backhaus I, Hoven H, Kawachi I (2023). Far-right political ideology and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: Multilevel analysis of 21 European countries. Social Science and Medicine 335:116227. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116227
Shi Y, Strobl R, Apfelbacher C, Bahmer T, Geisler R, Heuschmann P, Horn A, Hoven H, Keil T, Krawczak M, Krist L, Lemhöfer C, Lieb W, Lorenz-Depiereux B, Mikolajczyk R, Montellano F, Reese J, Schreiber S, Skoetz N, Störk S, Vehreschild J, Witzenrath M, Grill E (2023). Persistent symptoms and risk factors predicting prolonged time to symptom-free after SARS‐CoV‐2 infection: an analysis of the baseline examination of the German COVIDOM/NAPKON-POP cohort. Infection 51:1679–1694. doi: 10.1007/s15010-023-02043-6
Backhaus I, Hoven H, Bambra C, Oksanen T, Rigó M, di Tecco C, Iavicoli S, Dragano N (2023). Changes in work-related stressors before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: differences by gender and parental status. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health 96: 421–431. doi: 10.1007/s00420-022-01933-w.
Hoven H, Dragano N, Angerer P, Apfelbacher C, Backhaus I, Hoffmann B, Icks A, Wilm S, Fangerau F, Söhner F (2022). Striving for health equity: The importance of social determinants of health and ethical considerations in pandemic preparedness planning. International Journal of Public Health 67:1604542. doi: 10.3389/ijph.2022.1604542.
Backhaus I, Hoven H, Conte A, di Tecco C, Sergio I, Dragano N (2022). Economic change and population health: Lessons learnt from an umbrella review on the Great Recession. BMJ Open. In press. e060710. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2021-060710.
Hoven H, Wahrendorf M, Goldberg M, Zins M, Siegrist (2021). Adverse employment histories, work stress and self-reported depression in the French CONSTANCES study. European Journal of Public Health. 31(6):1230-1236. doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckab18.
Wahrendorf M, Chandola T, Goldberg M, Zins M, Hoven H, Siegrist J (2021). Adverse Employment Histories and Allostatic Load: Associations over the Working Life. Journal of Evironmental and Community Health. doi: 10.1136/jech-2021-217607.
Hoven H, Dragano N, Lunau T, Deindl C, Wahrendorf M (2021). The role of pension contributions for explaining inequalities in depressive symptoms. Results from SHARE. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 49: 581–588. doi: 10.1177/1403494820909011.
Hoven H, Wahrendorf M, Goldberg M, Zins M, Siegrist J (2020). Cumulative Disadvantage during Employment Careers – the Link between Employment Histories and Stressful Working Conditions. Advances in Life course Research 46. doi: 10.1016/j.alcr.2020.100358.
Hoven H, Wahrendorf M, Lunau T (2020). Psychosoziale Arbeitsbelastungen bei älteren Erwerbstätigen. In: Jürges H, Siegrist J, Stiehler M (Hg.): Männer und der Übergang in die Rente. Gießen: Psychosozialverlag.
Reuter M, Lunau T, Engels M, Hoven H, Dragano N (2020). Präsentismus in Zeiten der COVID-19-Pandemie. Warum Menschen krank arbeiten und was Betriebe tun können. Sicher ist sicher, 5(4), doi:10.37307/j.2199-7349.2020.05.04
Hoven H, Siegrist J, Goldberg M, Ribet C, Zins M, Wahrendorf M (2019). Intragenerational social mobility and depressive symptoms. Results from the French CONSTANCES cohort study, SSM – Population Health 7: 100351, doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2019.100351.
Wahrendorf M, Hoven H, Goldberg M, Zins M, Siegrist J (2018). Adverse employment histories and health functioning: the CONSTANCES study. International Journal of Epidemiology, doi: 10.1093/ije/dyy235.
Siegrist J, Wahrendorf M, Goldberg M, Zins M, Hoven H (2018). Is effort-reward imbalance at work associated with different domains of health functioning? Baseline results from the French CONSTANCES study. International archives of occupational and environmental health, doi: 10.1007/s00420-018-1374-8.
Hoven H, Dragano N, Blane D, Wahrendorf M (2018). Early adversity and late life employment history – a sequence analysis based on SHARE. Work, Aging and Retirement 4 (3): 238–250, doi: 10.1093/workar/wax014.
Götz S, Hoven H, Müller A, Dragano N, Wahrendorf M (2018). Age differences in the association between stressful work and sickness absence among full-time employed workers: Evidence from the German socioeconomic panel. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health 91(4): 479–496, doi: 10.1007/s00420-018-1298-3.
Wahrendorf M, Zaninotto P, Hoven H, Head J, Carr E (2018). Late Life Employment Histories and Their Association With Work and Family Formation During Adulthood: A Sequence Analysis Based on ELSA. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences 73(7): 1263-1277, doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbx066.
Hoven H, Ford D, Willmot A, Hagan S & Siegrist J (2016). Job Coaching and Success in Gaining and Sustaining Employment Among Homeless People. Research on Social Work Practice 26(6): 668-674, doi: 10.1177/1049731514562285.
Hoven H, Wahrendorf M, Siegrist J (2015). Occupational position, work stress and depressive symptoms: a pathway analysis of longitudinal SHARE data. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 69: 447-452, doi: 10.1136/jech-2014-205206.
Låftman SB, Modin B, Östberg V, Hoven H, Plenty S (2015). Effort-reward imbalance in the school setting: Associations with somatic pain and self-rated health. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 43: 123-129, doi: 10.1177/1403494814561818.
Montano D, Hoven H, Siegrist J (2014). A meta-analysis of health effects of randomized controlled worksite interventions: Does social stratification matter? Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health 40(3):230–234, doi: 10.5271/sjweh.3412.
Montano D, Hoven H, Siegrist J (2014). Effects of organisational-level interventions at work on employees’ health: a systematic review BMC Public Health 14: 135. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-135.
Hoven H, Siegrist J (2013). Work characteristics, socioeconomic position and health: a systematic review of mediation and moderation effects in prospective studies. Occupational and Environmental Medecine 70:663-669. doi: 10.1136/oemed-2012-101331.
2026
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Kavitha, A K;
Adair, Timothy;
Fazaeli, Ali Akbar;
Aronsson, Emma Amanda;
Ashaba, Maggie;
Backhaus-Hoven, Insa Linnea.
(2026)
WHO launches global network of institutes to strengthen capacity for health inequality monitoring.
International Journal for Equity in Health
Academic article
2025
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Gero, Krisztina;
Backhaus-Hoven, Insa Linnea;
Höhmann, Annika;
Dragano, Nico;
Hoven, Hanno.
(2025)
Low income and health literacy: a systematic scoping review.
Archives of Public Health
Academic literature review
-
Haeuser, Emily;
Byrne, Sam;
Nguyen, Jason;
Raggi, Catalina;
McLaughlin, Susan A;
Bisignano, Catherine.
(2025)
Global, regional, and national trends in routine childhood vaccination coverage from 1980 to 2023 with forecasts to 2030: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023.
The Lancet
Academic article
-
Schumacher, Austin E;
Zheng, Peng;
Barber, Ryan M;
A, Bhoomadevi;
Aalipour, Mohammad Amin;
Aalruz, Hasan.
(2025)
Global age-sex-specific all-cause mortality and life expectancy estimates for 204 countries and territories and 660 subnational locations, 1950–2023: a demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023.
The Lancet
Academic article
-
Stark, Benjamin A;
DeCleene, Nicole K;
Desai, Emily C;
Hsu, Johnathan M;
Johnson, Catherine O;
Lara-Castor, Laura.
(2025)
Global, Regional, and National Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors in 204 Countries and Territories, 1990-2023.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology
Academic article
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Hsu, Yu-Tien;
Hoven, Hanno;
Grodstein, Francine;
Liu, Tzu-Hung;
Chang, Chia-Rui;
Hsieh, Yu-Lin.
(2025)
Social participation trajectories in late life and cognitive functioning – A sequence analysis based on Taiwan Longitudinal Study on aging.
SSM - Population Health
Academic article
-
Damerau, Lukas S;
Herold, Robert;
Preisser, Alexandra M;
Haack, Alena;
Petersen, Elina L;
Waschki, Benjamin.
(2025)
Comparison of self-reported and job-exposure matrix assessed workplace inhalant exposures and their association with obstructive airways disease.
Scientific Reports
Academic article
-
Steel, Nicholas;
Bauer-Staeb, Clarissa Maria Mercedes;
Mercedes, Bauer-Staeb Clarissa Maria;
Ford, John A.;
Ford, John A;
Abbafati, Cristiana.
(2025)
Changing life expectancy in European countries 1990–2021: a subanalysis of causes and risk factors from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021.
The Lancet Public Health
Academic article
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Hoven, Hanno;
Eikemo, Terje Andreas;
Backhaus-Hoven, Insa Linnea;
Riebler, Andrea Ingeborg;
Fitzgerald, Rory;
Martino, Sara.
(2025)
The second Health Inequalities Module in the European Social Survey (ESS): Methodology and research opportunities.
Social Science and Medicine
Academic article
2024
-
Backhaus, Insa Linnea;
Dragano, Nico;
Tecco, Cristina Di;
Iavicoli, Sergio;
Hoven, Hanno.
(2024)
Trends in negative interpersonal relationships at work and awareness of occupational safety and health services: A 2014-2019 trend analysis.
Journal of Occupational Health
Academic article
-
Brauer, Michael;
Roth, Gregory A.;
Aravkin, Aleksandr Y.;
Zheng, Peng;
Abate, Kalkidan Hassen;
Abate, Yohannes Habtegiorgis.
(2024)
Global burden and strength of evidence for 88 risk factors in 204 countries and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021.
The Lancet
Academic article
2023
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Hoven, Hanno;
Backhaus, Insa;
Gerö, Krisztina;
Kawachi, Ichiro.
(2023)
Characteristics of employment history and self-perceived barriers to healthcare acces.
European Journal of Public Health
Academic article
-
Kopasker, Daniel;
Katikireddi, Srinivasa Vittal;
Santos, João Vasco;
Richiardi, Matteo;
Bronka, Patryk;
Rostila, Mikael.
(2023)
Microsimulation as a flexible tool to evaluate policies and their impact on socioeconomic inequalities in health.
The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
Academic article
Journal publications
-
Kavitha, A K;
Adair, Timothy;
Fazaeli, Ali Akbar;
Aronsson, Emma Amanda;
Ashaba, Maggie;
Backhaus-Hoven, Insa Linnea.
(2026)
WHO launches global network of institutes to strengthen capacity for health inequality monitoring.
International Journal for Equity in Health
Academic article
-
Gero, Krisztina;
Backhaus-Hoven, Insa Linnea;
Höhmann, Annika;
Dragano, Nico;
Hoven, Hanno.
(2025)
Low income and health literacy: a systematic scoping review.
Archives of Public Health
Academic literature review
-
Haeuser, Emily;
Byrne, Sam;
Nguyen, Jason;
Raggi, Catalina;
McLaughlin, Susan A;
Bisignano, Catherine.
(2025)
Global, regional, and national trends in routine childhood vaccination coverage from 1980 to 2023 with forecasts to 2030: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023.
The Lancet
Academic article
-
Schumacher, Austin E;
Zheng, Peng;
Barber, Ryan M;
A, Bhoomadevi;
Aalipour, Mohammad Amin;
Aalruz, Hasan.
(2025)
Global age-sex-specific all-cause mortality and life expectancy estimates for 204 countries and territories and 660 subnational locations, 1950–2023: a demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023.
The Lancet
Academic article
-
Stark, Benjamin A;
DeCleene, Nicole K;
Desai, Emily C;
Hsu, Johnathan M;
Johnson, Catherine O;
Lara-Castor, Laura.
(2025)
Global, Regional, and National Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors in 204 Countries and Territories, 1990-2023.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology
Academic article
-
Hsu, Yu-Tien;
Hoven, Hanno;
Grodstein, Francine;
Liu, Tzu-Hung;
Chang, Chia-Rui;
Hsieh, Yu-Lin.
(2025)
Social participation trajectories in late life and cognitive functioning – A sequence analysis based on Taiwan Longitudinal Study on aging.
SSM - Population Health
Academic article
-
Damerau, Lukas S;
Herold, Robert;
Preisser, Alexandra M;
Haack, Alena;
Petersen, Elina L;
Waschki, Benjamin.
(2025)
Comparison of self-reported and job-exposure matrix assessed workplace inhalant exposures and their association with obstructive airways disease.
Scientific Reports
Academic article
-
Steel, Nicholas;
Bauer-Staeb, Clarissa Maria Mercedes;
Mercedes, Bauer-Staeb Clarissa Maria;
Ford, John A.;
Ford, John A;
Abbafati, Cristiana.
(2025)
Changing life expectancy in European countries 1990–2021: a subanalysis of causes and risk factors from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021.
The Lancet Public Health
Academic article
-
Hoven, Hanno;
Eikemo, Terje Andreas;
Backhaus-Hoven, Insa Linnea;
Riebler, Andrea Ingeborg;
Fitzgerald, Rory;
Martino, Sara.
(2025)
The second Health Inequalities Module in the European Social Survey (ESS): Methodology and research opportunities.
Social Science and Medicine
Academic article
-
Backhaus, Insa Linnea;
Dragano, Nico;
Tecco, Cristina Di;
Iavicoli, Sergio;
Hoven, Hanno.
(2024)
Trends in negative interpersonal relationships at work and awareness of occupational safety and health services: A 2014-2019 trend analysis.
Journal of Occupational Health
Academic article
-
Brauer, Michael;
Roth, Gregory A.;
Aravkin, Aleksandr Y.;
Zheng, Peng;
Abate, Kalkidan Hassen;
Abate, Yohannes Habtegiorgis.
(2024)
Global burden and strength of evidence for 88 risk factors in 204 countries and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021.
The Lancet
Academic article
-
Hoven, Hanno;
Backhaus, Insa;
Gerö, Krisztina;
Kawachi, Ichiro.
(2023)
Characteristics of employment history and self-perceived barriers to healthcare acces.
European Journal of Public Health
Academic article
-
Kopasker, Daniel;
Katikireddi, Srinivasa Vittal;
Santos, João Vasco;
Richiardi, Matteo;
Bronka, Patryk;
Rostila, Mikael.
(2023)
Microsimulation as a flexible tool to evaluate policies and their impact on socioeconomic inequalities in health.
The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
Academic article