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General self-efficacy in East and West Germany: A comparison of two German representative cohorts in 2014 and 2022What this study adds:Implications for Policy and Practice: [PDF]

Public Health in Practice
Objectives: Empirical evidence increasingly highlights the importance of general self-efficacy (GEF) in preventing disease and promoting quality of life.
Anna C. Reinwarth, Julia Petersen, Manfred E. Beutel, Kerstin Weidner, Vera Clemens, Elmar Brähler   +5 more
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Association between the starting age of non-parental Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC), and psycho-social problems in adolescence in West and East Germany – a natural experiment using data from the German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents (KiGGS)

BMC Psychology, 2023
Introduction The study aimed to investigate the association between the start age of non-parental Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) and psycho-social problems in adolescence.
Ying Zhou, Annelene Wengler, Gabriele Doblhammer   +2 more
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Psychological and Socio-Economical Determinants of Health: The Case of Inner German Migration

Frontiers in Public Health, 2021
A substantial body of research has shown worse health conditions for East- vs. West-Germany in the wake of reunification. In the present study, we investigate how these differences between the two formerly divided regions developed and what maintains ...
Bjarne Schmalbach, Ileana Schmalbach, Ileana Schmalbach, Christoph Kasinger, Katja Petrowski, Elmar Brähler, Elmar Brähler, Markus Zenger, Markus Zenger, Yve Stöbel-Richter, Ernst Peter Richter, Hendrik Berth   +11 more
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Ordinary Places of Postmigrant Societies: Dealing with Difference in West and East German Neighbourhoods

Urban Planning, 2020
The starting point of the contribution is the question of how the dynamics of social encounters in the city are shaped by specific migration histories, local discourses, economies and policies.
Karin Wiest
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30 Years after Reunification, Gross Domestic Product has Served its Purpose as an Indicator

Wirtschaftsdienst, 2021
The comparison of living conditions in East and West Germany is often based on the gross domestic product per inhabitant. However, this measure is not a good welfare indicator in itself.
Oliver Holtemöller
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Hospitalizations for heart failure: still major differences between East and West Germany 30 years after reunification

ESC Heart Failure, 2021
Aims Heart failure (HF) is the most common primary inpatient diagnosis in Germany. We examined temporal trends of HF hospitalization within Germany focusing on regional differences. Methods and results We analysed aggregated data of more than 320 million
Marcus Dörr, Uwe Riemer, Michael Christ, Johann Bauersachs, Ralph Bosch, Ulrich Laufs, Anja Neumann, Martin Scherer, Stefan Störk, Rolf Wachter   +9 more
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The turnaround in internal migration between East and West Germany over the period 1991 to 2018

Demographic Research, 2020
Background: After losing a population of more than 1.2 million through migration to the West, in 2017 East Germany recorded net internal migration gains for the very first time since reunification.
Nico Stawarz, Nikola Sander, Harun Sulak, Matthias Rosenbaum-Feldbrügge   +3 more
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Do smoking, nutrition, alcohol use, and physical activity vary between regions in Germany? - results of a cross-sectional study

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background Previous studies on lifestyle risk factors mainly focused on age- or gender-specific differences. However, lifestyle risk factors also vary across regions.
Josefine Atzendorf, Christian Apfelbacher, Elena Gomes de Matos, Kirsten Lochbühler, Daniela Piontek, Nicki-Nils Seitz, Ludwig Kraus   +6 more
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Semantic Struggles in the Face of Crisis: ‘The West’ as Contested Key Concept in West German Parliamentary Debate (1973/74)

Redescriptions, 2021
This article suggests to read West German parliamentary debate on the first oil crisis as a semantic struggle on the concept of the West. Drawing on latest research, the West is considered to be a narrated concept with its meaning being negotiated upon ...
Ann-Judith Rabenschlag
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(Why) have women left East Germany more frequently than men?

Heidelberger Jahrbücher Online, 2018
There has been a massive internal migration from East to West Germany after German reunification in 1990. While there is a higher net emigration rate for women than for men, this is not the result of a surplus of women leaving East Germany, but a result
Johannes Stauder
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