Good Practice in Health Reporting - Guidelines and Recommendations 2.0: The boards of the German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention and the German Society for Epidemiology have approved this second edition of Good Practice in Health Reporting. December 2018

Dagmar Starke; Günter Tempel; Jeffrey Butler; Anne Starker; Christel Zühlke; Brigitte Borrmann

doi:10.25646/6059

Good Practice in Health Reporting - Guidelines and Recommendations 2.0: The boards of the German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention and the German Society for Epidemiology have approved this second edition of Good Practice in Health Reporting. December 2018

J Health Monit. 2019 Sep 4;4(Suppl 1):2-21. doi: 10.25646/6059. eCollection 2019 Sep.

Authors

Dagmar Starke¹, Günter Tempel², Jeffrey Butler³, Anne Starker⁴, Christel Zühlke⁵, Brigitte Borrmann⁶

Affiliations

¹ Academy of Public Health in Düsseldorf.
² Local Public Health Office, Bremen.
³ District of Berlin-Mitte.
⁴ Robert Koch Institute, Berlin.
⁵ The Governmental Institute of Public Health of Lower Saxony, Hannover.
⁶ NRW Centre for Health, Bochum.

PMID: 35586597
PMCID: PMC8832369
DOI: 10.25646/6059

Abstract

Health reporting provides a description of the health of the population, analyses problems and demonstrates areas in which action needs to be taken in health care provision, health promotion and disease prevention. Accordingly, it offers a rational basis for participatory processes and health policy decision-making. This edition of Good Practice in Health Reporting resulted from a revision of the first edition, which was first published in March 2017. It incorporates contributions from experts, and various institutions and associations from the German federal-state and national levels. This revised edition rose out of the need for continual development in health reporting. In some cases, a number of changes were made so that certain aspects could be defined more clearly; in other cases, changes were made to methodology, for example, in order to accommodate participatory and qualitative approaches. This publication is aimed at providing people working in health reporting with professional direction and guidance. We welcome your feedback.

Keywords: GERMANY; GOOD PRACTICE; GUIDELINES; HEALTH REPORTING; PUBLIC HEALTH; RECOMMENDATIONS.

Grants and funding

The development and revision of Good Practice in Health Reporting and the preparation of this document was carried out without external funding as part of the authors’ general employment responsibilities.