Dirk Heider

TL;DR: This systematic literature review identified and summarized 35 studies that investigated the relationship between multiple chronic conditions (MCCs) and health care utilization outcomes (i.e. physician use, hospital use, medication use) andhealth care cost outcomes (medication costs, out-of-pocket costs, total health care costs) for elderly general populations.

TL;DR: In spite of meaningful country variation in prevalence, risk factors for suicidality are consistent in the European countries and population prevention programmes should focus on early diagnosis and treatment of major depression and alcohol abuse and in those individuals with recent appearance of suicidal ideas.

TL;DR: Evidence is provided that frailty is associated with increased health care costs and that the overlapping concepts of multimorbidity and frailty are both necessary to explain health care use and corresponding costs among older adults.

TL;DR: Analysis of physical activity, dietary, drinking, and smoking habits of schizophrenia patients revealed that schizophrenia by itself or in interaction with demographic variables influences physical activity as well as alcohol, nicotine, and healthy grocery consumption.

TL;DR: Support for patients with schizophrenia may be shifted from the professional to the informal healthcare sector more in Britain than in Germany, and national differences in family burden may be related to different healthcare systems in Germany and Britain.