SEPTEMBER 2022
ISSUE 3

Health behaviour of adults in Germany – Results from GEDA 2019/2020-EHIS

Issue 3/2022 focuses on various aspects of health behaviour among adults in Germany, presented by gender, age and education group. The Focus article shows and discusses results on smoking behaviour and passive smoke exposure. Analyses on the topics ‘overweight / obesity’ and ‘sedentary behaviour / physical inactivity’ are each presented in a compact fact sheet.

The German Health Update (GEDA) is a nationwide cross-sectional survey of the resident population living in Germany. The fifth follow-up survey, GEDA 2019/2020-EHIS, took place between April 2019 and September 2020.