Background: The National Cohort (Nationale Kohorte = NaKo) will be one of the largest cohort studies in Europe to include intensive physical examinations and extensive information about the socio-demographic background and behavior of the subjects. However, regional selectivity of the study and...

Background: The National Cohort (NaKo) will be one of the largest cohort studies in Europe to include intensive physical examinations and extensive information about the socio-demographic background and behavior of the subjects. However, regional selectivity of the study and potential learning...

Medical doctors act as agents of their patients by either treating them directly or referring them to other more or differently specialized doctors, who thereby become "agents of agents". The main aim of this paper is to model central aspects of such two-layered agency relations in the medical...

"The courses of individual people's working lives constitute the object of research into the patterns of working life. In the context of socio-medical research into working life patterns, the health-related consequences of gainful employment and interruptions in it (research into causes of...

"The courses of individual people's working lives constitute the object of research into the patterns of working life. In the context of socio-medical research into working life patterns, the health-related consequences of gainful employment and interruptions in it (research into causes of...