Climate change and public health in Germany - A synthesis of options for action from the German status report on climate change and health 2023.

Background: This article represents the conclusion of the updated German status report on climate change and health, which was jointly written by authors from over 30 national institutions and organisations. The objectives are (a) to synthesise the options for action formulated in the report, (b) to combine them into clusters and guiding principles, (c) to address the success factors for implementation, and (d) to combine the options for action into target parameters.

Methods: The options for action from the individual contributions of the status report were systematically recorded and categorised (n=236).

Climate change and public health in Germany - An introduction to the German status report on climate change and health 2023.

Global warming of 1.5°C and even 2°C is likely to be exceeded during the 21 century. Climate change poses a worldwide threat and has direct and indirect effects on infectious diseases, on non-communicable diseases and on mental health.

WICID framework version 1.0: criteria and considerations to guide evidence-informed decision-making on non-pharmacological interventions targeting COVID-19.

Introduction: Public health decision-making requires the balancing of numerous, often conflicting factors. However, participatory, evidence-informed decision-making processes to identify and weigh these factors are often not possible- especially, in the context of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. While evidence-to-decision frameworks are not able or intended to replace stakeholder participation, they can serve as a tool to approach relevancy and comprehensiveness of the criteria considered.

[Education and Training in Public Health - Results of the Working Group 9 of the Forum Future Public Health, Berlin 2016].

The need for a qualified public health workforce can only be met by appropriate provision of a wide spectrum of basic, advanced and continuing education and training programs on public health that meet international standards. At the same time, efforts must be made to offer young academics attractive career opportunities. Training in public health competences must also be provided for allied professionals in health care and for professions with influence on the determinants of health such as urban planning or agricultural science.

[A minimally invasive dorsal approach to the medial femoral condyle as a donor site for osteochondral transfer procedures].

Objective: Long-lasting reconstruction of joint surface by using an osteochondral transfer procedure (OCT). Reduction of donor site morbidity by using a minimally invasive approach to the dorsal medial femoral condyle.

Indications: Grade 3 and 4 cartilage lesions (according to ICRS [International Cartilage Repair Society]), osteochondral lesions, and osteochondrosis dissecans.

Lack of HLA class II antigen expression in microsatellite unstable colorectal carcinomas is caused by mutations in HLA class II regulatory genes.

Colorectal cancers (CRCs) develop on the basis of a deficient DNA mismatch repair (MMR) system in about 15% of cases. MMR-deficient CRC lesions show high-level microsatellite instability (MSI-H) and accumulate numerous mutations located at coding microsatellite loci that lead to the generation of immunogenic neopeptides. Consequently, the host's antitumoral immune response is of high importance for the course of the disease in MSI-H CRC patients.