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2017-06-15Zeitschriftenartikel

Regional health differences – developing a socioeconomic deprivation index for Germany

Kroll, Lars Eric; Schumann, Maria; Hoebel, Jens; Lampert, Thomas

For Germany, regional differences for various health indicators, which are also associated with socioeconomic factors, have been documented. This article aims to develop a regional socioeconomic deprivation index for ...

2017-04-12Zeitschriftenartikel

Mode Equivalence of Health Indicators Between Data Collection Modes and Mixed-Mode Survey Designs in Population-Based Health Interview Surveys for Children and Adolescents: Methodological Study

Mauz, Elvira; Hoffmann, Robert; Houben, Robin; Krause, Laura; Kamtsiuris, Panagiotis; Gößwald, Antje

Background: The implementation of an Internet option in an existing public health interview survey using a mixed-mode design is attractive because of lower costs and faster data availability. Additionally, mixed-mode surveys ...

2017-09-07Zeitschriftenartikel

Background paper to the decision not to recommend a standard vaccination with the live attenuated herpes zoster vaccine for the elderly in Germany

German Standing Committee on Vaccination (STIKO) at the Robert Koch Institute (RKI)

A live attenuated vaccine (Zostavax®) against herpes zoster (HZ) and postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) was licensed for persons 50 years of age and older in 2006 and became available in Germany in September 2013. Based on ...

2018-08-16Zeitschriftenartikel

Retrospective validation of whole genome sequencing-enhanced surveillance of listeriosis in Europe, 2010 to 2015

Van Walle, Ivo; Torgny Björkman, Jonas; Cormican, Martin; Dallman, Timothy; Mossong, Joël; Moura, Alexandra; Pietzka, Ariane; Ruppitsch, Werner; Takkinen, Johanna; European Listeria WGS typing group

Background and aim: The trend in reported case counts of invasive Listeria monocytogenes (Lm), a potentially severe food-borne disease, has been increasing since 2008. In 2015, 2,224 cases were reported in the European ...

2018-07-11Zeitschriftenartikel

Flexible decision-making in grooming partner choice in sooty mangabeys and chimpanzees

Mielke, Alexander; Preis, Anna; Samuni, Liran; Gogarten, Jan F.; Wittig, Roman M.; Crockford, Catherine

Living in permanent social groups forces animals to make decisions about when, how and with whom to interact, requiring decisions to be made that integrate multiple sources of information. Changing social environments can ...

2018-04-11Zeitschriftenartikel

Antibiotic-Resistant E. coli in Uncomplicated Community-Acquired Urinary Tract Infection

A Prospective Cohort Study from 2015/16 (the SARHA Study) Compared With Data From the Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System (ARS)

Klingeberg, Anja; Noll, Ines; Willrich, Niklas; Feig, Marcel; Emrich, Dagmar; Zill, Edith; Krenz-Weinreich, A.; Kalka-Moll, Wiltrud; Oberdorfer, Klaus; Schmiemann, Guido; Eckmanns, Tim

Background: Routine urine culture testing is not recommended for uncomplicated urinary tract infections (UTIs). As a result, the antibiotic resistance patterns or the organisms causing UTIs are not adequately reflected in ...

2018-07-06Zeitschriftenartikel

Derivation and external validation of a clinical version of the German Diabetes Risk Score (GDRS) including measures of HbA1c

Mühlenbruch, Kristin; Paprott, Rebecca; Joost, Hans-Georg; Boeing, Heiner; Heidemann, Christin; Schulze, Matthias B.

Objective The German Diabetes Risk Score (GDRS) is a diabetes prediction model which only includes non-invasively measured risk factors. The aim of this study was to extend the original GDRS by hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) and ...

2018-10-17Zeitschriftenartikel

Cancers Potentially Preventable through Excess Weight Reduction in Germany in 2010

Wienecke, Antje; Neuhauser, Hannelore; Kraywinkel, Klaus; Barnes, Benjamin

Objective: In order to quantify the preventive potential of body weight reduction in Germany, population-attributable risks (PARs) were estimated for 13 cancer types. Methods: PARs were calculated using body weight prevalence ...

2019-01-10Zeitschriftenartikel

Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

GBD 2017 Risk Factor Collaborators

Background The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2017 comparative risk assessment (CRA) is a comprehensive approach to risk factor quantification that offers a useful tool for synthesising ...

2017-11-14Zeitschriftenartikel

Welche Faktoren begünstigen die Anwendung potenziell ungeeigneter Medikamente bei älteren Menschen?

Ergebnisse aus der Studie zur Gesundheit Erwachsener in Deutschland (DEGS1)

Endres, Heinz G.; Kaufmann-Kolle, Petra; Knopf, Hildtraud; Thürmann, Petra A.

Hintergrund Aktuelle Untersuchungen belegen den Zusammenhang zwischen der Verordnung potenziell inadäquater Medikamente (PIM) an Patienten ab 65 Jahren und einem erhöhten Risiko dieser Patienten für unerwünschte Ereignisse, ...

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