Claudia Konnopka

Claudia Konnopka is a researcher at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, affiliated with the Medizinische Fakultät and the Center for Health Care Research & Public Health (CHCR & PH). Her work focuses on health economics, health services research, and interdisciplinary geriatric-trauma care models.

Research interests include

• Orthogeriatric co-management systems
• Air pollution and climate-health interactions
• Gender dysphoria in child psychiatry
• Temperature-related emergency care demands
• Health economic evaluation of fracture interventions
• Insurance claims data analysis

Recent publications examine

• Post-fracture rehospitalization risks
• Climate change impacts on public health
• Nursing home admission prevention
• Anti-osteoporotic drug prescription patterns
• Certification requirements in geriatric trauma centers

using retrospective cohort studies and health insurance data from Germany.