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The interdisciplinary research project INHECOV aims to investigate the direct and indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on health inequalities and to derive concrete options for future pandemic planning.

The IMVR is involved in INHECOV with a subproject led by Prof. PD. Dr. Timo-Kolja Pförtner and in collaboration with Dr. Ibrahim Demirer on the indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on health inequality.

The subproject “Health inequality due to precarious employment in the context of indirect effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions” addresses, among other things, the social and health consequences of non-pharmaceutical interventions for precarious workers. It will examine whether health inequalities have increased as a function of precarious employment status during the pandemic, the health impact of the social consequences of non-pharmaceutical interventions on precarious workers, and the impact of pandemic-related job loss on the health of precarious workers.

A description of all sub-projects can be found on the project website.

The following publications from the subproject have already been published:

• Demirer, I., Pförtner, TK. (2023): The Covid-19 pandemic as an accelerator of economic worries and labor-related mental health polarization in Germany? A longitudinal interacted mediation analysis with a difference-in-difference comparison. SSM – population health 23, S. 101469. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2023.101469
• Pförtner, TK., Demirer, I. (2023): Erwerbsarmut und subjektive Gesundheit während der COVID-19-Pandemie: Eine Zeitvergleichsstudie mit Daten des Soziooekonomischen Panels 1995–2021. Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00103-023-03734-z.
• Pförtner, TK., Dohle, S. & Hower, K.I. (2022). Trends in educational disparities in preventive behaviours, risk perception, perceived effectiveness and trust in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. BMC Public Health 22, 903. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-13341-3