The focus of this issue of GBE kompakt is depression. Depressive disorders are among the most significant mental disorders. Due to their frequency, complications and consequences, they are of outstanding importance with ...

People living in poverty have a poorer general state of health, their health-related behaviour tends to be riskier, and they are more at risk from certain diseases. Further findings on the link between poverty and health ...

Every year on May 31 is World No Tobacco Day (WNTD). The current issue of GBE kompakt deals with the prevalence and development of tobacco use in Germany. Data of the telephone survey "German Health Update" 2009 (GEDA) ...

This issue of GBE kompakt focuses on diabetes mellitus, a metabolic disease. Prevalence of and complications due to diabetes mellitus will be displayed on the basis of data of the telephone survey GEDA 2009 and other data ...

Steigende Lebenserwartung und gute Gesundheit, aber: immer noch zu viele Menschen rauchen, sind zu dick, bewegen sich zu wenig und trinken zu viel Alkohol. Das sind die Kernaussagen des Gesundheitsberichts "Gesundheit in ...

Life expectancy is rising and the general health situation is good, but the number of people who smoke, are too fat, take too little exercise and/or drink too much alcohol is still too high. These are the main conclusions ...

The brochure "Cancer in Germany" is published jointly by the Association of Epidemiological Cancer Registries (Gesellschaft der epidemiologischen Krebsregister e.V., GEKID) and the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) every two ...

The global HIV/AIDS epidemic is one of the greatest health problems of our time. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimated the total number of people living with HIV worldwide at the end of 2005 at almost 40 million ...

Fast jeder leidet zumindest gelegentlich unter Schmerzen. Von den 1998 im Bundes-Gesundheitssurvey befragten Bundesbürgern gaben nur 12 % der Männer und 6 % der Frauen an, im vergangenen Jahr keine Schmerzen gehabt zu ...

Reisen in subtropische und tropische Regionen sind mit erhöhten Gesundheitsrisiken verbunden. Bei etwa einem Drittel der Reisenden in solche Gebiete ist mit reise-assoziierten Durchfallerkrankungen zu rechnen, die in der ...