Baumeister, S E Alte, D Meyer, C John, U
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The results suggest that alcohol consumption on a high level as well as high-risk drinking is a common phenomenon in the north-eastern part of Germany. Public health measures are indicated for this region. Such intervention projects should focus on population groups with higher alcohol intake.
Kroh, M
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While surveying actually measured body weight is largely impractical in national surveys, self-reported weight is a simple and inexpensive method of collecting data. Previous research shows that data on reported body weight are falsified by systematic mis-reporting. This bias is said to be the consequence of the sensitive nature of information on b...
Michelmann, H Himmel, W
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Reproductive medicine, as seen from a public health perspective, needs to pursue patient-oriented requirements more in-depth. An open discussion of new technologies which could improve reproductive health but are at present not permitted, would be imperative.
Fell, G David, C Reintjes, R
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The results indicate that the recommendations to complete MMR vaccinations earlier are recognised. Nevertheless about half of the children were vaccinated later than recommended. In order to achieve vaccination coverage which will allow to achieve the goal of measles eradication substantial efforts are still required. Due to relatively large rates ...
Haustein, K-O
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People of lower socio-economic strata increasingly use legal as well as illegal drugs. Tobacco and alcohol are legal drugs that cause particular concern. Both drugs are widely abused in Germany by people attempting to escape their everyday problems. For decades it has been known that tobacco and alcohol use are more prevalent in lower socio-economi...
von dem Knesebeck, O David, K Siegrist, J
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This study investigates associations of an adverse psychosocial work environment with musculoskeletal pain among German police officers in special forces. Analyses are based on a survey of 480 officers in special police forces (mainly special assignments and mobile units). An adverse psychosocial work environment is measured by the effort-reward im...
Ihle, P Köster, I Herholz, H Rambow-Bertram, P Schardt, T Schubert, I
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Statutory health insurance data are being increasingly used for secondary data research. Longitudinal data can be prepared for research in health care, epidemiology or demand planning, in particular through the person-related nature of the data which is a precondition for the creation of inter-sector and inter-period data sets. This application pos...
Voigt-Radloff, S Leonhart, R Schwer, B Junde, I Heiss, H W
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The STA fulfils essential quality criteria of the classical test theory. The involved therapists assessed the benefit of the STA as satisfactory. In addition, they pointed out concrete improvement potential for the implementation in practice. It is planed to investigate a refined version of the STA in a multi centre validation study.
Trösken, T Geraedts, M
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For wheelchair patients in Germany, free choice of doctors seems to be massively reduced. Since 80 % of orthopaedic and 90 % of neurological surgeries in Essen do not fulfil the quality feature "constructional accessibility", measures that have been taken in the past to help partially able persons to participate in this respective aspect of social ...
Mielck, A Huber, C A
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Sickness benefits provide income in case of sickness; this is an important achievement of social policy. However, we should study the financial burden which sickness benefits could have for the insured. More in-depth analyses would require data that are not yet available (e. g. on the number of insured per income group and the income of other house...
