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271. [BIPS Project] Sitting and standing in school - A feasibility study on the use of standing desks in primary schools

URL: /en/research/projects/detail-view.html?projID=757&cHash=627d83e76292172d6e5cd0227eeb84cf
Date: 01-08-17

The installation of height adjustable working desks (‘standing desks’) may facilitate reducing sitting time during school hours, which is still matter of investigation: Recent studies showed that…

272. [BIPS Project] Health promotion and capacity building with migrants for migrants

URL: /en/research/projects/detail-view.html?projID=738&cHash=5d74252b9632ddd4ec9f7a8903ee9e56
Date: 01-09-17

The nationwide “For Migrants with Migrants” (MiMi) health initiative has taken on the task to advance the health literacy of migrants using culturally-sensitive knowledge transfer in native language.…

273. [BIPS Project] IDEFICS/I.Family Follow-up

URL: /en/research/projects/detail-view.html?projID=798&cHash=4d5f120d534325724e88355d981edcda
Date: 01-01-18

The 5th wave of the IDEFICS/I.Family cohort study was implemented in 2020/2021 as a web-based survey. From the previous survey waves, we had already learned a lot about lifestyle habits such as…

274. [BIPS Project] Causal discovery for cohort data

URL: /en/research/projects/detail-view.html?projID=711&cHash=02f48802f43c22cf29a1ecbbbf7bbd64
Date: 01-01-18

This project capitalised on methods of causal discovery to supplement standard statistical analyses and hence paved the way to fully exploit the potential wealth of information provided by cohort…

275. [BIPS Project] Community interpreting services Lower Saxony - Setting up regional capacity for community interpreting

URL: /en/research/projects/detail-view.html?projID=750&cHash=7b17b9918be33fbb4794d9f13d54e79b
Date: 01-01-18

The project aims at building a lasting, sustainable and state-wide infrastructure for qualification, agency, supervision and quality management, as well as telephone interpreting. Based on a…

276. [BIPS Project] Physical activity and health equity: primary prevention for healthy ageing

URL: /en/research/projects/detail-view.html?projID=712&cHash=fff020aec32e7f3697dc868eee038068
Date: 01-02-18

AEQUIPA: Physical activity and health equity: primary prevention for healthy ageing AEQUIPA is a regional prevention research network comprising six universities, two research institutes and the…

277. [BIPS Project] Development and evaluation of three-stage procedures for modeling exposure patterns in epidemiological studies

URL: /en/research/projects/detail-view.html?projID=719&cHash=4c49d137ae3df7e397786a58daff4c7b
Date: 01-02-18

The interaction of various lifestyle-related factors contributes substantially to the development of multifactorial diseases such as diabetes, obesity and cancer. This project aims to develop a novel…

278. [BIPS Project] Dementia in the German Pharmacoepidemiological Research Database

URL: /en/research/projects/detail-view.html?projID=756&cHash=12a5755e50a71e96c6b2286094d4a4ed
Date: 01-02-18

Dementias, including Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia, and other forms of dementia (oD) rank highest among neurodegenerative diseases in the elderly. In contrast to the epidemiology of…

279. [BIPS Project] Increased competencies for nutrition in Zanzibari health care

URL: /en/research/projects/detail-view.html?projID=736&cHash=87fe82dc8928770b1c3a38533d088577
Date: 01-03-18

Inadequate nutrition is a major health risk on Zanzibar: Like other developing countries, Zanzibar is undergoing a double burden of underweight and overweight/obesity with rapid increasing number of…

280. [BIPS Project] The German National Cohort - A prospective epidemiological study resource for health and disease research in Germany

URL: /en/research/projects/detail-view.html?projID=753&cHash=f5ed51bcdfef56a0f3c9e2e2b69344b2
Date: 01-05-18

The aim of the German health study NAKO is to investigate genetic and environmental risk factors for frequent chronic diseases in a prospective study setting. The study will include a total of…