[Responsibilities and problems in national health reporting].
Complaints about the inadequate data situation in public health services are not new. However, during the course of the past few years there have been significant developments: the board of experts for concerted action in the public health services requested an improvement to the situation and the Federal Government promoted a preliminary study on the establishment of a national health reporting system (GBE) in Germany. Under the responsibility of the Federal Statistics Office, a national GBE is currently being established through further promotion by the Federal Ministry for Research and Technology (BMFT) and the Federal Health Ministry (BMG); the standard users of this system will be both the general public as well as the bodies responsible for health policy and scientific research. In the public health services there exist complete, but improveable data sources or incomplete sources requiring selection; also, new data sources must be won. In establishing the GBE, it is being assumed that public health services participants willing to cooperate already have at their disposal extensive data that does not need to be newly acquired, but does need improved mutual co-ordination. The GBE can be established on this. Further supplementary data acquisition is only being considered for a later stage.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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Institut für Soziale Medizin, FU Berlin.
D003625:Data Collection; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D011634:Public Health / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014798:Vital Statistics
Aufgaben und Probleme der nationalen Gesundheitsberichterstattung.