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2017-12-13Zeitschriftenartikel DOI: 10.17886/RKI-GBE-2017-129
Utilization of physical therapy services in Germany
dc.contributor.authorRommel, Alexander
dc.contributor.authorPrütz, Franziska
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-07T20:53:05Z
dc.date.available2018-05-07T20:53:05Z
dc.date.created2017-12-20
dc.date.issued2017-12-13none
dc.identifier.otherhttp://edoc.rki.de/oa/articles/reqQCLUCwWQrM/PDF/26FarX5FnRtA.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://edoc.rki.de/176904/2918
dc.description.abstractPhysical therapy plays an important role in health care and is listed as a therapy in many clinical guidelines. Claims data gathered by statutory health insurers demonstrate that in Germany physical therapy accounts for more than 70% of the reimbursable costs of all non-medical treatments comprising physical therapy, logopaedics, occupational therapy and podiatry. In monetary terms, this equates to about EUR 4.4 billion annually. According to self-reports of the respondents of GEDA 2014/2015-EHIS on their utilization of physical therapy services 25.5% of women and 17.7% of men used physical therapy services within the 12 months that preceded the interview. This rate increases significantly with age, reaching its peak among the 50-to-59 year age group, at 30.7% among women and 20.1% among men. People with a high level of education and those with private health insurance use physical therapy services more frequently. Moreover, people living in the eastern part of Germany use physical therapy services more often than those living in the western federal states.eng
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRobert Koch-Institut, Epidemiologie und Gesundheitsberichterstattung
dc.rights(CC BY 4.0) Namensnennung 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectGERMANYeng
dc.subjectHEALTH MONITORINGeng
dc.subjectUTILIZATIONeng
dc.subjectPHYSICAL THERAPYeng
dc.subjectHEALTH CAREeng
dc.subject.ddc610 Medizin
dc.titleUtilization of physical therapy services in Germany
dc.typeperiodicalPart
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:0257-10056206
dc.identifier.doi10.17886/RKI-GBE-2017-129
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25646/2843
local.edoc.container-titleJournal of Health Monitoring
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local.edoc.type-nameZeitschriftenartikel
local.edoc.container-typeperiodical
local.edoc.container-type-nameZeitschrift
local.edoc.container-urlhttp://www.rki.de/journalhealthmonitoring
local.edoc.container-volume2
local.edoc.container-issue4
local.edoc.container-year2017

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