Research at the ISGR

Through interdisciplinarity, the relevant perspectives (e.g..: Medicine, Medical Ethics, Philosophy, Public Health, Health Economics, Medical Sociology and Health Policy) are enabled . The thusly broad range of research results provide scientific foundations for the transfer into practice. They are published in the "Bochumer Schriften zum Sozial- und Gesundheitsrecht" (Bochum Papers on Social and Health Law) by the Publisher "Nomos-Verlag" or in professional journals.

Central topics of the ISGR include

• Public health system, socially equitable financing
• Health equity, socially just distribution of health services.
• Digitalization and health
• Personal responsibility in health topics, prevention, nudging etc.
• Quality assurance in the statutory health insurance and in the transplantation system
• Public Health
• Infektion protection law
• Personalised medicine, Systems medicine
• Genetic risk diagnostics, genetic diseases, risk-adapted prevention.
• Reproductive medicine, pre-implantation diagnostics
• Rationalization, rationing, prioritization
• Cost-benefit analysis for medical services
• Early benefit assessment of drugs, pricing