Publications by authors named "Juergen Breckenkamp"

Background: The United Nations Assembly adopted the Sustainable Development Goals to succeed the Millennium Development Goals in September 2015. From a European perspective, the development of health in the countries of North Africa are of special interest as a critical factor of overall social development in Europe's Mediterranean partners. In this paper, we address the mortality related SDG-3 targets, the likelihood to achieve them until 2030 and analyze how they are defined.

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Background Maternal obesity, excessive gestational weight gain and fetal macrosomia may affect the health of the mother and the newborn, and are associated with cesarean delivery. Pregnant women with a migration background have a higher risk of obesity but nevertheless a lower frequency of cesarean deliveries than women from the majority population. This study assesses which of these factors most influence the risk of a cesarean delivery and whether their prevalence can explain the lower cesarean rates in migrant women.

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Background: Socioeconomic status is a predictor not only of mortality, but also of cardiovascular risk and morbidity. An ongoing debate in the field of social inequalities and health focuses on two questions: 1) Is individual health status associated with individual income as well as with income inequality at the aggregate (e. g.

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The interest in quality management in health care has increased in the last decades as the financial crises in most health systems generated the need for solutions to contain costs while maintaining quality of care. In Germany the development of quality management procedures has been closely linked with health care reforms. Starting in the early nineties quality management issues gained momentum in reform legislation only 10 years later.

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Background: Diagnosis and treatment of the two primary cardiovascular risk factors, hypertension and hypercholesterolaemia, are well established. Nevertheless, according to earlier analyses of representative health questionnaire and examination surveys in 1984, 1988 and 1991, control of risk factors in the sense of normalized values through drug therapy did not improve to any relevant degree in former West Germany. The National Health Survey of 1998 now allows the reconsideration of the hypothesis that medical treatment has been improving and lead to a reduction of risk factor values measured in the population.

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