Thomas Lampert

TL;DR: The first wave of the "German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Adults" (DEGS1), conducted from 2008 through 2011, provides current data about overweight and obesity among adults in Germany as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The first wave of the "German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Adults" (DEGS1), conducted from 2008 through 2011, provides current data about overweight and obesity among adults in Germany and indicates that the prevalence of overweight has risen substantially, especially among men, and the increase in obesity occurred especially among young adults.

TL;DR: The German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents (KiGGS) was conducted from May 2003 to May 2006 by the Robert Koch Institute in 167 communities representative of Germany by collecting comprehensive and nationally representative data on the health status of children and adolescents aged 0 to 17 years as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The basic concepts underlying the revision and how they were implemented in relation to the "German health interview and examination survey for adults" (DEGS1) are described and the results of the age and sex-specific distribution of the values of the revised SES index are reported.

TL;DR: This work discusses approaches to the definition of terms and the surveying of ethnic minorities and migrants, and develops a basic set of migration status indicators for use in epidemiological research.