Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz
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Bundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschutz · Dec 2021
[Mental health and psychological burden of children and adolescents during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic-results of the COPSY study].
The drastic changes during the COVID-19 pandemic may have a negative impact on the psychological wellbeing of children and adolescents. ⋯ The COVID-19 pandemic poses a mental health risk to children and adolescents. Schools, doctors, and society are called to react by providing low-threshold and target-group-specific prevention and mental health promotion programs.
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Bundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschutz · Mar 2021
[Three years of cannabis as medicine-preliminary results of the survey accompanying the prescription of medical cannabis in Germany].
In Germany, physicians who prescribe medical cannabis flowers or cannabis-based medicines (narcotic prescription) at the expense of the statutory health insurance are obliged to take part in a noninterventional accompanying survey that runs until 31 March 2022. At the time of this interim evaluation, 11 May 2020, there were 10,010 complete datasets collected. The most frequently treated symptoms were pain (73%), followed by spasticity (10%), and anorexia/wasting (6%). ⋯ Patients treated with cannabis flowers are significantly younger and predominantly male. They are treated more often by general practitioners and internists, their diagnosis differs more often from the typical diagnoses (pain, spasticity, anorexia/wasting), and they have more prior experience with cannabis. The underreporting in the accompanying survey is mainly in this patient group.
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Bundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschutz · Nov 2020
Review[Immunotherapy of allergies: current status].
Allergen immunotherapy (AIT) is the only causally effective, disease-modifying form of therapy that, in addition to alleviating allergic symptoms, counteracts disease progression. This article provides an up-to-date overview of immunological, regulatory and practical aspects of AIT. Current literature was included and recent conceptual regulatory developments from the Division of Allergology at the higher federal authority (Paul-Ehrlich-Institut) are presented. ⋯ A first food preparation for oral AIT of peanut allergy in children is currently undergoing a central European marketing authorization (MA) procedure. MA can only be granted if the benefit-risk balance is positive. Science and regulation are in continuous exchange on the development of AIT products that correspond to the current state of clinical research and regulation in the EU and enable early causal treatment of widespread allergies.
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Bundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschutz · Sep 2020
Review[Prevention reporting-a new impetus for health reporting?]
In 2015 the "Act to Strengthen Health Promotion and Prevention" (German Prevention Act) was passed. This act stipulates reporting on its implementation and impact by means of a regular prevention report by the National Prevention Conference. It also furthers prevention reporting at the regional level in the federal states. ⋯ Further tasks are the development of feasible approaches to survey and report prevention interventions as well as the attempt to report outcomes and effects within causal models instead of merely reporting inputs and outputs. In conclusion, the dynamic induced by the German Prevention Act serves as a stimulus to health reporting-with a view to its contents, methods and policy relevance. Research to accompany and support the development of prevention reporting would be highly desirable.
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Bundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschutz · May 2020
Review[Osteopathy under scrutiny].
Osteopathic medicine is a medical specialty that enjoys a high level of recognition and increasing popularity among patients. High-quality education and training are essential to ensure good and safe patient treatment. At a superficial glance, osteopathy could be misunderstood as a myth; accurately considered, osteopathic medicine is grounded in medical and scientific knowledge and solid theoretical and practical training. ⋯ Further work on external evidence of osteopathy is being conducted, but there is enough knowledge from the other pillars of evidence-based medicine (EBM) to support the application of osteopathic treatment. Implementing careful, manual osteopathic examination and treatment has the potential to cut healthcare costs. To ensure quality, osteopathic societies should be intimately involved and integrated in the regulation of the education, training, and practice of osteopathic medicine.