Integrated public health action planning instruments – experiences from North Rhine-Westphalia

Sync&share North Rhine-Westphalia

Raimund Vogl is the project leader of a large-scale project which aims to introduce a university-based cloud storage services to major German universities. The protagonist needs to prepare himself for a meeting with the project sponsors, the Ministry of Science and Research, to convince them to go ahead with the project. The scenario is based on a real case and shows real challenges. The univer...

Energy in North Rhine-Westphalia

Transparency systems: do businesses in North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) regret the cancellation of the Smiley scheme?

Our paper explores how participants of voluntary transparency systems react to the cancellation of such programmes. We concern ourselves with participants of the voluntary transparency scheme known as the “North Rhine-Westphalia Smiley”. The Smiley system, which awarded the compliant behavior of businesses that joined it, was established in 2007 but cancelled in 2013 due to lack of participants...

Control measures following a case of imported Lassa fever from Togo, North Rhine Westphalia, Germany, 2016

In a patient transferred from Togo to Cologne, Germany, Lassa fever was diagnosed 12 days post mortem. Sixty-two contacts in Cologne were categorised according to the level of exposure, and gradual infection control measures were applied. No clinical signs of Lassa virus infection or Lassa specific antibodies were observed in the 62 contacts. Thirty-three individuals had direct contact to blood...

Calculation of health expectancies with administrative data for North Rhine-Westphalia, a Federal State of Germany, 1999–2005

OBJECTIVES The main objectives of this study were to prove the feasibility of health expectancy analyses with regional administrative health statistics and to explore the utility of the calculated health expectancies in describing the health state of the population living in North Rhine-Westphalia, a Federal State of Germany. MATERIALS AND METHODS Administrative population and mortality data ...