Objective: The aim of the present paper was to analyze factors affecting distal and proximal health behavior within a biopsychosocial model for examining their interactions and associations with respect to health. Methods: ...

Background: Population-based self-reported data on off-label medicine use independent from health care provisions are lacking. The purpose of this study is to investigate off-label medicine use in children and adolescents ...

Background: Livestock-Associated MRSA (LA-MRSA) belonging to ST398 lineage, common among pigs and other animals, emerged in Central and Northern Europe, becoming a new risk factor for MRSA among farm workers. Strains ...

Die Gesundheitsberichterstattung (GBE) des Bundes hat als Ziel, ein Bild vom Gesundheitszustand der Bevölkerung, ihrem Gesundheitsverhalten, der Verbreitung von Risikofaktoren, der Inanspruchnahme von Leistungen sowie der ...

In 2010, the European surveillance network for travel-associated Legionnaires’ disease (ELDSNet, previously EWGLINET) received reports of 864 cases of travel-associated Legionnaires’ disease, of whom 24 were reported to ...