RESEARCH GROUP "ECONOMIC EVALUATION":
Postal address:
Helmholtz Zentrum München
German Research Center for Environmental Health
Institute of Health Economics and Health Care Management (IGM)
P.O.Box 1129
D-85758 Neuherberg, Germany
Tel.: +49-89 / 3187-4443
Fax: +49-89 / 3187-3375
eMail: silke.wolfenstetter@helmholtz-muenchen.de
Dr. Silke Britta Wolfenstetter, MBR,
business administration/economics (Dipl.-Kauffrau) and physiotherapist
Position:
Research associate
Education:
- PhD as Doctor oeconomiae publicae (title: Economic Aspects of Obesity and Physical Inactivity) at the University of Munich (LMU), (Germany)
- Master of Business Research (MBR) at the University of Munich (LMU), (Germany)
- Internship and diploma thesis at GlaxoSmithKline at the Department of Health Economics focused on health economic evaluation, (Munich, Germany)
- Graduate studies in business administration at the University of Augsburg focused on Management and Organisation, Public Sector Management and Economics of Health and Healthcare, (Germany)
- Vocational training as physiotherapist at the School of Physiotherapy at the University of Munich, (Germany)
Research interests:
- Cost-of-illness studies of obesity and diabetes mellitus type 2 in children and adolescents in Germany
- Excess-cost analyses of obesity in adulthood
- Economic evaluation of prevention programs
Work:
- Economic evaluation of primary preventive physical activity programs
- Excess-cost analyses of obesity in children and adults (observational studies: GINI/LISA and KORA)
- Competence Network of Obesity (CNO) in Germany (MEMORI: Multidisciplinary Early Modification of Obesity Risk)
- BIG - Projekt („Bewegung als Investition in Gesundheit”)
Selected publications:
Wolfenstetter, S.B.: Conceptual framework for standard economic evaluation of of physical activity programmes in primary prevention. Prevention Science, 1-17 (2011) (online first)
Wolfenstetter, S.B.: Future direct and indirect costs of obesity and the influence of gaining weight: Results from the MONICA/KORA cohort studies, 1995–2005. Economics and Human Biology (2011) (online first)
- Wolfenstetter, S.B.: Economic Aspects of Obesity and Physical Inactivity, München: Dr. Hut Verlag, ISBN: 978-3-86853-753-6, (2010)
- Wenig, C.M., Wolfenstetter, S.B., John, J.: Recent economic findings on childhood obesity, The IVAVA Scientific Newsletter 51, 4 (2010)
- Wolfenstetter, S.B., Wenig, C.M.: Economic evidence and transferability of activity programmes in primary prevention: a systematic review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 7(4), 1622-1648 (2010). Special issue: Health Economics
- John, J., Wenig, C., Wolfenstetter, S.B.: Recent economic findings of childhood obesity: Cost-of-illness and cost-effectiveness of interventions. Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care 13(3), 305-313 (2010)
- von Lengerke, T., Wolfenstetter, S.B., John, J.: Adipositasassoziierte Versorgungsinanspruchnahme und Krankheitskosten in Deutschland (Health care utilization and costs of obesity in Germany [in German]). In: Gewichtige Gene. Adipositas zwischen Prädisposition und Eigenverantwortung (Hrsg.: Hilbert, A., Dabrock, P., Rief, W.). Bern: Hans Huber Verlag, S. 83-101 (2008)
- Wolfenstetter, S.B.: Adipositas und die Komorbidität Diabetes mellitus Typ 2 bei Kindern und Jugendlichen in Deutschland: Entwicklung und Krankheitskostenanalyse (Juvenile Obesity and Comorbidity Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2 DM) in Germany: Development and Cost-of-Illness Analysis [in German]). Das Gesundheitswesen 68, 600-612 (2006)
Teaching at the University of Munich:
- Course: „Economics and management of the German health care system“ (WiSe 2010/2011)
- Course: „New perspectives on health economy and health care management“ (WiSe 2007/2008)
- Course: „Efficiency and technology management of the health care system“ (SoSe07)
- Tutorial: „Organisation and management of the health care system“ (SoSe07)
- Course: „Selected aspects of the management of the health care system“ (WiSe 2006/2007)
- Tutorial: „Production and organisation“ (WiSe 2006/2007)
- Course:„Economic evaluation of coronary heart diseases, obesity and dementia“ (SoSe 2006)
