Monitoring of physical activity and promotion of physical activity - development of indicators for the prevention indicator system of the federal states
Description
- The Prevention Act considers physical activity promotion as an integral part of the German National Health Goals and thus part of the federal framework recommendations and state framework agreements. To date, there are data gaps in the topic area "movement/physical activity" for which appropriate indicators need to be developed.
In the research project "Monitoring of Physical Activity and Promotion of Physical Activity - Development of Indicators for the Prevention Indicator System of the Federal States (KAB-Mon)", four indicators will be developed and harmonized: (1) Modal split (use of transportation), (2) Walkability, (3) Bikeability, and (4) Physical activity as a building block in the educational framework plan for child day care facilities. Scientists at BIPS collaborate with representatives from the Senate Department for Science, Health and Care in Berlin and national experts from the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg to develop a policy indicator for anchoring the topic of physical activity as a building block in the educational framework of child day care facilities in Germany. Furthermore, scientists at BIPS utilize geodata to quantify indicators for Walkability and Bikeability. The developed indicators will then be piloted and tested for the state of Berlin. Considering the user perspective, the research project will be accompanied by a co-creation approach in which representatives from the health reporting departments of other federal states partake.
The indicators developed and harmonized in this research project are intended to standardize the prevention reporting of the federal states in order to create a basis for joint prevention reporting. The results thus provide an important basis for developing regional and supra-regional health promotion measures in a more needs-oriented manner to make a decisive contribution to population health.
The research project is part of the funding priority „Structural strengthening and further development of the public health service“ of the German Federal Ministry of Health.
Funding period
- Begin: March 2023
End: April 2026
Sponsor
- Federal Ministry of Health
Contact
Project management (national)
- Dr. Jonas Finger, Berlin, SenWGPG, Referat I A Gesundheitsberichterstattung