{"title":"Health behaviour in Germany - ongoing cause for concern!","authors":"Julika Loss","doi":"10.25646/10289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25646/10289","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73767,"journal":{"name":"Journal of health monitoring","volume":" ","pages":"3-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9520352/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40391640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anne Starker, Ronny Kuhnert, Jens Hoebel, Almut Richter
{"title":"Smoking behaviour and passive smoke exposure of adults - Results from GEDA 2019/2020-EHIS.","authors":"Anne Starker, Ronny Kuhnert, Jens Hoebel, Almut Richter","doi":"10.25646/10291","DOIUrl":"10.25646/10291","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Smoking is a significant health risk and the leading cause of premature death. Passive smoke causes the same negative effects on health as smoking, albeit to a lesser extent. The reduction of tobacco consumption and the protection against passive smoke are thus important health objectives.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The study German Health Update (GEDA 2019/2020-EHIS) is a cross-sectional telephone survey (04/2019 to 09/2020) of the resident population in Germany with questions relating to the current smoking behaviour and relating to the passive smoke exposure. The analysis sample comprises 22,708 persons from 18 years of age.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>24.0% of women and 33.9% of men from 18 years of age smoke currently, at least occasionally. Among both sexes, adults from 65 years of age smoke significantly more rarely than adults in the younger age groups. 4.1% of adults, who do not smoke themselves, are subjected daily to passive smoke exposure indoors. This affects in particular young adults and men. There are educational differences in tobacco consumption and in passive smoke exposure to the disadvantage of adults from lower educational groups.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>In Germany, there is still a need for action for effective measures for tobacco prevention, smoking cessation and tobacco control policy, which are effective in all population groups and which take into account the concerns of socially disadvantaged groups.</p>","PeriodicalId":73767,"journal":{"name":"Journal of health monitoring","volume":"7 3","pages":"6-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9520347/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10867300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anja Schienkiewitz, Ronny Kuhnert, Miriam Blume, Gert B M Mensink
{"title":"Overweight and obesity among adults in Germany - Results from GEDA 2019/2020-EHIS.","authors":"Anja Schienkiewitz, Ronny Kuhnert, Miriam Blume, Gert B M Mensink","doi":"10.25646/10293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25646/10293","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Overweight and obesity and their associated secondary diseases are of high public health relevance.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Self-reported body weight and body height data are available in the study German Health Update (GEDA 2019/2020-EHIS). The body mass index (BMI, kg/m<sup>2</sup>) was calculated and overweight (including obesity, BMI ≥25 kg/m<sup>2</sup>) and obesity (BMI ≥30 kg/m<sup>2</sup>) were derived.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>According to this self-report, 53.5% of adults in Germany are overweight, men more often than women. The obesity prevalence for both sexes is 19.0%. The prevalence of overweight and obesity increases with age in both women and men. Obesity is significantly more prevalent in low education groups compared to high education groups. Compared to GEDA 2012, the prevalence of overweight is unchanged, but the obesity prevalence has continued to increase, particularly among 45- to 64-year-olds.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The prevention potential of avoiding overweight and obesity remains high.</p>","PeriodicalId":73767,"journal":{"name":"Journal of health monitoring","volume":"7 3","pages":"21-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9520353/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10867299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Climate change - a burning topic for public health.","authors":"Lothar H Wieler","doi":"10.25646/10387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25646/10387","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73767,"journal":{"name":"Journal of health monitoring","volume":"7 Suppl 4","pages":"3-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9479114/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33468317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A planetary health perspective on the climate crisis","authors":"S. Gabrysch","doi":"10.25646/10389","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25646/10389","url":null,"abstract":"This abstract was presented at the Robert Koch Colloquium 2022 and has not been peer reviewed.","PeriodicalId":73767,"journal":{"name":"Journal of health monitoring","volume":"7 1","pages":"7 - 9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48150997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impacts of climate-related hazards on health and well-being of vulnerable groups in Europe","authors":"A. Kaźmierczak","doi":"10.25646/10395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25646/10395","url":null,"abstract":"This abstract was presented at the Robert Koch Colloquium 2022 and has not been peer reviewed.","PeriodicalId":73767,"journal":{"name":"Journal of health monitoring","volume":"7 1","pages":"16 - 18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44513121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Climate change and vector-borne disease in North America and Europe","authors":"L. Petersen, Karen M. Holcomb, C. B. Beard","doi":"10.25646/10393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25646/10393","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73767,"journal":{"name":"Journal of health monitoring","volume":"7 1","pages":"13 - 15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46378099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On microbial virulence, mammals, and climate change","authors":"A. Casadevall","doi":"10.25646/10391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25646/10391","url":null,"abstract":"This abstract was presented at the Robert Koch Colloquium 2022 and has not been peer reviewed.","PeriodicalId":73767,"journal":{"name":"Journal of health monitoring","volume":"7 1","pages":"10 - 12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46620220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stefan Damerow, Alexander Rommel, Ann-Kristin Beyer, Ulfert Hapke, Anja Schienkiewitz, Anne Starker, Almut Richter, Jens Baumert, Judith Fuchs, Beate Gaertner, Stephan Müters, Johannes Lemcke, Jennifer Allen
{"title":"Health situation in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic. Developments over time for selected indicators of GEDA 2019/2020 - An update.","authors":"Stefan Damerow, Alexander Rommel, Ann-Kristin Beyer, Ulfert Hapke, Anja Schienkiewitz, Anne Starker, Almut Richter, Jens Baumert, Judith Fuchs, Beate Gaertner, Stephan Müters, Johannes Lemcke, Jennifer Allen","doi":"10.25646/9883","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25646/9883","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The spread of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 in 2020 and the containment measures associated therewith have changed many aspects of daily life. An impact on health even beyond infections itself is assumed as well. The health situation of the population in the first phase of the pandemic was thus analysed using data from the German Health Update (GEDA 2019/2020-EHIS). By continuing the survey, the analyses for 2020 are completed (n=26,507 participants), whereby the focus is now on the third phase of the pandemic (second wave of infection, gradual reintroduction of containment measures). The health indicators are presented on a monthly basis. As in the first phase of the pandemic, no pandemic-related changes were observed for tobacco smoking/ second-hand smoke exposure and for received/lack of/provided support. In contrast to the first phase of the pandemic, declines in utilisation of medical services and depressive symptoms are not observed in the third phase. The increase in body weight/body mass index after the first phase of the pandemic did not continue. The survey period allows for a comparison of the periods before and as of the pandemic situation. A decrease in the medical services utilisation and depressive symptoms as well as an increase in the body weight/body mass index is observed in the period from March 2020 to January 2021 compared to the pre-pandemic period from April 2019 to March 2020.</p>","PeriodicalId":73767,"journal":{"name":"Journal of health monitoring","volume":"7 Suppl 3","pages":"2-19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9298161/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40633435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sexuality education for young people in Germany.Results of the 'Youth Sexuality' representative repeat survey.","authors":"Sara Scharmanski, Angelika Hessling","doi":"10.25646/9875","DOIUrl":"10.25646/9875","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Federal Centre for Health Education (BZgA) has been conducting the 'Youth Sexuality' representative survey on a regular basis since 1980. This continuous monitoring generates insights into the sexual and reproductive health of young people in Germany and constitutes an important basis for evidence-based health communication. A total of N=6,032 young people between the ages of 14 and 25 participated in a combination of oral and written interviews (Computer Assisted Personal Interviews (CAPI)). As primary sources of knowledge for, adolescents state that they obtain information through school lessons (69%), personal discussions (68%), and the Internet (59%). In addition to these sources, professional gynaecological counselling and sexuality education at home are also important sources of information. To what extent trusted contact persons are available in the family depends heavily on the adolescents' sociocultural backgrounds. Providing information and disseminating knowledge to young people in the field of sexual and reproductive health is organised intersectorally in Germany. In this way, it is possible to also reach those who do not have any contact persons at their disposal in their direct family. Maintaining and strengthening the current commitment in promoting sexual health is of key importance, as only this will ensure the next generation's sexual and reproductive health, and provide an evidence-based counterbalance to anecdotal information, especially in the digital domain.</p>","PeriodicalId":73767,"journal":{"name":"Journal of health monitoring","volume":"7 2","pages":"21-38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9275519/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40646037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}