The Robert Koch Institute (RKI): main building in Berlin. more
Germany’s Public Health institute RKI monitors the population’s health and wellbeing. more
The Robert Koch Institute is the German government's central institution for the identification, surveillance and prevention of infectious diseases in the Portfolio of the German Ministry of Health. more
GBE kompakt was an information series of the Federal Health Monitoring. In September 2016, the series was transferred to the Journal of Health Monitoring (online journal). In the journal, GBE kompakt became a focus article, which is supplemented by fact sheets.
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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 sources. Another focus is on medical care and the use of medical services.
Date of issue May 6, 2011PDF (695 KB, File does not meet accessibility standards.)
How satisfied are people with their contacts in the health system in Germany? Are adequate health informations available? And how well-known are rights of patients? The data of an additional survey of GEDA 2009, carried out by the Robert Koch-Institute, will answer these questions. (german version only)
Date of issue April 7, 2011PDF (491 KB, File does not meet accessibility standards.)
Data on influenza vaccination coverage was collected from the telephone survey GEDA 2009. The analysed data show that vaccine coverage in season 2007/08 in target groups was still low.
Date of issue February 3, 2011PDF (845 KB, File does not meet accessibility standards.)
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 from the RKI's telephone survey "German Health Update" 2009 (GEDA) are presented in the latest issue of GBE kompakt.
Date of issue December 1, 2010PDF (469 KB, File does not meet accessibility standards.)
Do still differences in the health of children and adolescents living in the East or West of Germany exist? Answers to this question will be given in the 4th issue of GBE kompakt. The results base upon the data of the German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents (KiGGS) conducted by the Robert Koch Institute.
Date of issue September 30, 2010PDF (447 KB, File does not meet accessibility standards.)
