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30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall: Regional health differences in Germany
Beschreibung der gesundheitlichen Lage in Ost und West sowie deren Entwicklung in den letzten 30 Jahren
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Abstract Following the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, considerable effort was made to bring the living conditions and levels of social participation in the former East German federal states into line with the former West German federal states. As a result, differences in health between the East an... mehr
Following the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, considerable effort was made to bring the living conditions and levels of social participation in the former East German federal states into line with the former West German federal states. As a result, differences in health between the East and the West diminished significantly, in many cases as early as the 1990s, examples being life expectancy and cardiovascular mortality. In regard to health behaviour, the overall tendency has also clearly been one of convergence. Thus, only very small differences can be observed today, for example in the use of tobacco or in the prevalence of obesity. Yet the results also highlight the insufficiency of regarding the remaining differences as a simple comparison between East and West. Instead, the focus should shift towards smallerscale approaches that take regional differences in living conditions into account.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
regionaler Unterschied; neue Bundesländer; alte Bundesländer; Lebenserwartung; Gesundheit; Risiko; Ost-West-Vergleich; Gesundheitsverhalten; Herzkrankheit; Kreislaufkrankheit; Krebs; psychische Störung; Selbsteinschätzung; Gesundheitszustand; Rauchen; Übergewicht; Sport; Bundesrepublik Deutschland; SOEP; Mikrozensus
Klassifikation
Gesundheitspolitik
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2019
Seitenangabe
S. 1-23
Zeitschriftentitel
Journal of Health Monitoring, 4 (2019) S2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25646/6077
ISSN
2511-2708
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)