[Professional Health Literacy of General Practitioners - Results of the HLS-PROF].

Aim: To date, there are only a few studies analyzing health professionals' health literacy (HL). Mostly, the focus has been on personal rather than professional HL. To bridge this gap, a new concept and an associated survey instrument have been developed in a three-country consortium.

[Professional health literacy among nurses in Germany: Results of a quantitative, cross-sectional survey].

Professional health literacy among nurses in Germany: Results of a quantitative, cross-sectional survey Little is known about the professional health literacy (HL) of nurses, i.e., how well they are able to promote patients' HL.

Financing health promotion, prevention and innovation despite the rising healthcare costs: How can the new German government square the circle?

The German health system is under pressure due to increasing costs of healthcare provision and rising demand for health services. With the new coalition government, Germany has increased efforts to build a modern, innovative infrastructure for prevention and high-quality health services. The coalition agreement has a strong climate, innovation, and sustainability focus, reflecting at the same time the ambition of the new government to implement a preventive, inter-connected, and modern healthcare system in Germany.

Strengthening health system governance in Germany: looking back, planning ahead.

Health system governance has been receiving increasing attention in health system research since the 1980s. The contemporary challenges that the German health system is faced with are often closely linked to governance issues. Although Germany has the highest health expenditure as a share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the European Union (EU), the spending on healthcare is out of proportion to the health outcomes of the population.

Priority setting and cross-country learning: the relevance of TO-REACH for primary care.

Aim: To inform the primary care community about priorities for research in primary care as came up from the European project TO-REACH and to discuss transferability of service and policy innovations between countries.

Background: TO-REACH stands for ransfer of rganizational innovations for esilient, ffective, equitable, ccessible, sustainable and omprehensive ealth services and systems. This EU-funded project has put health systems and services research higher on the European agenda and has led to the current development of a European 'Partnership Transforming Health and Care Systems'.

Patients' attitudes toward copayments as a steering tool-results from a qualitative study in Norway and Germany.

Background: Copayments are implemented in many health care systems. The effect of copayments differs between countries. Up to now, patients' attitudes regarding copayments are mainly unknown.

A sequential model for the structure of health care utilization.

Traditional measurement models of health care utilization are not able to represent the complex structure of health care utilization. In this qualitative study, we, therefore, developed a new model to represent the health care utilization structure. In Norway and Germany, we conducted episodic interviews, participant observation and a concurrent context analysis.

[Regulations of sickness certification as a factor for increased health care utilization in Germany].

Background: In Germany, utilization of ambulatory health care is high compared to other countries. Classical models of health care utilization cannot sufficiently explain these differences. The aim of this study was to explore relevant factors which can explain the higher health care utilization in Germany.

Patients' subjective concepts about primary healthcare utilisation: the study protocol of a qualitative comparative study between Norway and Germany.

Background: In Germany, utilisation of ambulatory healthcare services is high compared with other countries: While a study based on the process data of German statutory health insurances showed an average of 17.1 physician-patient-contacts per year, the comparable figure for Norway is about five. The usual models of healthcare utilisation, such as Rosenstock's Health Belief Model and Andersen's Behavioural Model, cannot explain these differences adequately.