[Key Topics and Activities of Local and District Health Conferences between 2013 and 2022: Results of a Non-Reactive Online Screening].

Objectives: The tasks of the Public Health Service include, amongst others, health promotion and disease prevention, health reporting and health planning. In many places, local or district health conferences (HCs) have been established to network and coordinate municipal stakeholders. HCs have been defined in the laws of the German states of Baden-Wurttemberg, Berlin, Hamburg, Hesse, and North Rhine-Westphalia.

[Health in All Policies Within Local Public Health Reporting in Public Health Service].

Objectives: The Public Health Service, as an administrative policy-oriented actor, can be essential for the implementation of Health in All Policies at the county level. Local Public Health Reporting, anchored in the federal state laws, as basis for planning processes can play a potentially central role in this regard. This study will investigate to what extent local health reports fulfill such an overarching role through integration and administrative intersectorality.

Parental Self-Efficacy as a Predictor of Children's Nutrition and the Potential Mediator Effect between the Health Promotion Program "Join the Healthy Boat" and Children's Nutrition.

Overweight and obesity, as well as their associated risk factors for diseases, are already prevalent in childhood and, therefore, promoting healthy eating is important. Parental self-efficacy (PSE) and early health-promotion can be helpful in promoting healthy eating. The aim of this study was to examine the influence of PSE on children's nutrition behavior and identify PSE as a mediator between an intervention and children's nutrition.

Intervention Effects of a Kindergarten-Based Health Promotion Programme on Motor Abilities in Early Childhood.

Physical activity is positively related to motor abilities. Especially in childhood, an active lifestyle is important to support healthy motor development. The low-threshold health promotion programme "Join the Healthy Boat" in kindergartens promotes physical activity in order to also improve motor abilities.

[Methodological Challenges of Prevention Reporting - More to it Than Just Evidence Reporting!].

Background: The German Prevention Act came into force in 2015 with the aim of strengthening prevention of disease and health promotion, focussing on settings-based approaches. An established field of public health action is thus strengthened and expanded by a set of rules that has largely come into force as a social security law. The implementation of legislation is to be accompanied by the establishment of a prevention reporting system.

Physicians' perspectives on implementing the prevention scheme "Physical Activity on Prescription": Results of a survey in Bavaria.

The prevention scheme called "Rezept für Bewegung" (Physical Activity on Prescription, PAP) enables physicians to formally prescribe participation in health-oriented sports programs to their patients. The PAP scheme aims to strengthen the binding character of physicians' patient counselling for physical activity. The research objective was to investigate the physicians' awareness and their use of PAP as a prevention tool in patient counselling, as well as perceived barriers to implementation.

[The Load of Injustice: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Impact of Subjectively Perceived Income Injustice on the Risk of Stress-Associated Diseases Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel Study].

Background: Income injustice is regarded as a psychosocial strain and associated with an increased risk of stress-related diseases. The physiological stress response is thereby considered as a central link. The aim of the study is to reveal the influence of subjectively perceived income injustice on stress-associated diseases, taking into consideration the load duration.

Electronic media use and insomnia complaints in German adolescents: gender differences in use patterns and sleep problems.

Electronic media play an important role in the everyday lives of children and adolescents and have been shown to be associated with sleep problems. The objective of this study was to assess the associations between time spent using different electronic media and insomnia complaints (IC) in German adolescents with particular respect to gender differences in use patterns and associations with IC. Cross-sectional data of a weighted total of 7533 adolescents aged 11-17 stem from the German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents (KiGGS study) that was conducted from 2003 to 2006.

Insomnia complaints and substance use in German adolescents: did we underestimate the role of coffee consumption? Results of the KiGGS study.

The purpose of the study was to study the associations of tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, and coffee use and insomnia complaints (IC) in adolescents with special consideration of the influence of coffee consumption on these relationships. 7698 Subjects aged 11-17 years were investigated in a cross-sectional study within the German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents. Self-report questionnaires were distributed to the participants.

Impaired sleep quality and sleep duration in smokers-results from the German Multicenter Study on Nicotine Dependence.

Cigarette smoking is a severe health burden being related to a number of chronic diseases. Frequently, smokers report about sleep problems. Sleep disturbance, in turn, has been demonstrated to be involved in the pathophysiology of several disorders related to smoking and may be relevant for the pathophysiology of nicotine dependence.