Maintaining good health is crucial for everyone. In health-related social work, social workers play a vital role in enabling individuals with diverse conditions to enhance their quality of life and participate in society.
Professor Michel aims to spark students' curiosity in complex topics and to introduce them to different perspectives on health-related issues. She wants her students to experience how their knowledge can contribute to positive social change in practice. In her teaching, she encourages her students to actively shape their learning process.
Professor Michel's research focuses on
Since 02/2023:
Professor of Social Work and Health at the University of Applied Science Zittau/Görlitz
2019-2023:
Senior Consultant at the Norwegian Medicines Agency. Health Technology Assessment: Systematic, evidence-based evaluation of new drugs regarding their benefits for patients and advising decision-makers.
2014-2018:
Ph.D. at the Institute for Health and Society, University of Oslo, Norway. Topic: Methodological challenges when measuring and valuing health.
2016:
Systemic Counselling for Young Professionals, isb GmbH Systemische Professionalität Wiesloch
2008-2010:
Research Assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Educational Research, Berlin. Research areas: Lifespan Psychology (Prof. Lindenberger) & Educational Sciences, and Educational Systems (Prof. Baumert, Prof. Trautwein).
2007-2014:
Psychology (Dipl. Psych.) at Humboldt University Berlin and University of Bergen, Norway
Since 2020 SAFE:
Securing high-quality care for cancer patients at end-of-life
Interdisciplinary collaboration project between universities from Australia, Finland and Norway and two Norwegian municipal administrations:
2014-2018:
Improving valuation methods for the 15D instrument to estimate a value algorithm for use in Norwegian healthcare priority settings:
https://www.med.uio.no/helsam/english/research/projects/15d-instrument/index.html
Michel, Y. A., Aas, E., Augestad, L. A., Burger, E., Thoresen, L., & Bjørnelv, G. M. W. (2024). Healthcare use and costs in the last six months of life by level of care and cause of death. BMC health services research, 24(1), 688.
Michel, Y. A., Steinmayr, R., Frenzel, A. C., & Ziegler, M. (2020). Unpacking domain-specific achievement motivation: the role of contextualising items for test-criterion correlations. Educational Psychology, 1-25.https://doi.org/10.1080/01443410.2020.1713303
Michel, Y. A., Augestad, L. A., Barra, M., & Rand, K. (2019). A Norwegian 15D value algorithm: proposing a new procedure to estimate 15D value algorithms. Quality of Life Research, 28(5), 1129-1143. doi.org/10.1007/s11136-018-2043-9
Michel, Y. A. (2019). Methodological challenges when measuring and valuing health. (Doctoral dissertation, University of Oslo, Norway). Retrieved from urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-71674
Michel, Y. A., Augestad, L. A., & Rand, K. (2018). Comparing 15D valuation studies in Norway and Finland—Challenges when combining information from several valuation tasks. Value in Health, 21(4), 462-470.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jval.2017.09.018
Michel, Y. A., Engel, L., Rand-Hendriksen, K., Augestad, L. A., & Whitehurst, D. G. (2016). “When I saw walking I just kind of took it as wheeling”: interpretations of mobility-related items in generic, preference-based health state instruments in the context of spinal cord injury. Health and quality of life outcomes, 14(1), 1-11.https://doi.org/10.1186/s12955-016-0565-9
Health Care Systems, Counselling & Supervision, Lifespan Psychology, Organisational Development for recent teaching at Hochschule Zittau/Görlitz.
Deutsche Vereinigung für Soziale Arbeit im Gesundheitswesen e. V. (German Association for Social Work in Healthcare)