Das Gesundheitswesen
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Management information systems which support a demand-oriented, integrative and comprehensive decision-making in health care policy are of pre-eminent importance for the health care system. Present health care legislation in Bavaria underlines the importance of health reporting as a tool for periodical assessment of the situation and starting-point for decision-making in health care. Demands made on the Bavarian health report stem from both European and national levels and also from the regional structure within the state. ⋯ This approach enables decision makers to assess the grade of certainty of recommendations. Health reporting in Bavaria aims at following the people through time. The intelligent use of new media will have to play a key role.
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Das Gesundheitswesen · Feb 2004
[Complaints and health care system utilisation of ethnic German migrants from the former Soviet Union to Germany and their families].
The aim of the study is the description of subjective morbidity, health care system utilisation and complaints of ethnic German migrants from the former Soviet Union at the beginning of migration. At present no data are available concerning aspects of health behaviour among this largest immigrant population in Germany. ⋯ The different medical care system and differences in the treatment of patients could account for the less frequent use of medical services by ethnic German migrants. Actual stressors like language differences and acculturation problems are discussed as possible reasons for the increased rate of complaints among ethnic German migrants. Although they suffer from more complaints the German migrants do not seem to modify their help-seeking behaviour.