[Position paper from the "Climate and Sustainability" working group in the German Society for Rehabilitation Sciences].

The "Climate and Sustainability" working group of the German Society for Rehabilitation Sciences was founded in March 2023. The members represent research, practice, and service providers in rehabilitation. The aim is to make rehabilitation in Germany sustainable and to focus on climate protection and the health consequences of climate change.

[Sustainability in occupational dermatology : Starting points, challenges, and potentials for sustainable care of work-related skin diseases].

Sustainability is becoming increasingly important in healthcare and has moved into focus at various levels. This article aims to provide an overview of guiding principles, concepts, and target systems of sustainability and to transfer these to occupational dermatology. Current and future starting points are outlined for various levels, e.

Sun protection in outdoor workers - Development and validation of standardized questionnaires for behavior and knowledge.

Background And Objectives: Outdoor workers are at increased risk of developing non-melanoma skin cancer. We aimed to address the lack of validated German-language measurement instruments for outdoor workers' sun safety behavior and knowledge by compiling and validating two questionnaires.

Participants And Methods: By expert consensus, items for the assessment of protective behavior (OccuSun) were compiled based on existing instruments.

Using Behaviour Change Techniques to characterize patient educational interventions in tertiary individual prevention of work-related skin diseases.

Tertiary Individual Prevention is an interprofessional inpatient rehabilitation programme offered to workers affected by work-related skin diseases. Health educational interventions aiming at changing skin protection behaviour are a pivotal component of the programme. This paper aims at characterizing the content of the educational interventions of the interprofessional inpatient rehabilitation programme and at reporting the mechanisms and functions for behaviour change.

Illness Perceptions of Patients with Occupational Skin Diseases in a Healthcare Centre for Tertiary Prevention: A Cross-Sectional Study.

To investigate the illness perceptions of patients with occupational skin diseases (OSDs). Cross-sectional study. Specialised healthcare centre for inpatient and outpatient individual prevention in occupational dermatology in Germany.