Unemployment and health in Germany
Recently I’ve published 2 english journal articles on unemployment and health. The first article is published in the Deutsches Aerzteblatt International covers the association of unemployment, health and social support. It s based on a topical representatice dataset for Germany. The study “German Health Update” (GEDA). The second article is published ‘online first’ in the International Journal of Public Health. It covers recent trends in the association of unemployent and health for the timeframe 1994 to 2008. It utilizes trend as well as panel regression models and is based on data of the German Socio-economic Panel (GSOEP). Overall the results of both studies indicate, that unemloyment is an increasingly important social determinant of bad health in Germany. Furthermore, while its health consequences can’t be resolved individually, they can be buffered with social support of a strong social network of meaningful others.
Diabetes Trends in Germany
Title:
Diabetes Prevalence of known diabetes in German adults aged 25–69 years: results from national health surveys over 15 years
Authors:
C. Heidemann, L. Kroll, A. Icks*, T. Lampert and C. Scheidt-Nave
KEYWORDS:
cross-sectional studies • diabetes mellitus • health surveys • prevalence • trend
Abstract:
Aims:
The few studies examining the secular trend in diabetes prevalence in Germany have yielded conflicting results. Therefore, using nationally representative samples of adults, we investigated whether the prevalence of known diabetes has changed over 15 years.
Methods:
Study participants were 25- to 69-year-old residents participating in nationally representative health surveys performed in the following time periods: 1990–1992, 1997–1999, 2002–2003, 2003–2004 and 2004–2005. Prevalences of diabetes, standardized to the population structure of 2004, and trends over time were assessed for the total study population as well as by gender and other diabetes-associated factors.
Results:
Between 1990–1992 and 2002–2005, no statistically significant trend in the total (5.16 and 5.34%, P trend = 0.68) or sex-specific diabetes prevalence (men: 5.43 and 5.73, P trend = 0.62; women: 4.88 and 4.95%, P trend = 0.94) was observed. For each time period, prevalence rose substantially with increasing age, increasing body mass index, lower sporting activity and lower education.
Conclusions:
Our findings reflect no temporal increase in the total prevalence of known diabetes in German adult men and women. However, prevalence estimates were relatively high when compared with other European studies and call for continued efforts for the prevention and management of diabetes. Accepted 15 April 2009
Presentation at the ISA-Forum 08 in Barcelona | Healthy Life Expectancy
”Are Things Getting Better or Worse, and Why? The Role of Social Indicators to Inform Public Policy”
ISA – Working Group 06 “Social Indicators
Conference Track at 1st ISA Forum “Sociological Research and Public Debate”
Barcelona, September 5 – 8, 2008
Session 1: Indicators and Their Use to Guide Policies in the Field of Health
Chair: Heinz-Herbert Noll, GESIS-ZUMA, Mannheim, Germany
Authors:
Lars Eric Kroll; Thomas Lampert; Cornelia Lange; Thomas Ziese
Title: Healthy Life Expectancy as an indicator to compare the health of societies
Abstract:
Background
Healthy life expectancy is an important indicator to describe the consequences of demo-graphic change for different societies. Possible scenarios are an overall increase of the years people are suffering diseases or functional limitations (“expansion of morbidity”), a decline of the morbid time in the life course (“compression of morbidity”) and a “dynamic equilibrium” of morbidity and mortality. We will discuss the concept and problems of the indicator healthy life expectancy for policy advice.
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Presentation at SOEP2008 | Life expectancy
Title:
Analyses of socio-economic inequalities in life expectancy using SOEP
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