KAB-Mon

KAB-Mon – Monitoring pf physical activity and promotion of physical activity – Development of indicators for the prevention indicator system of the federal states

Exercise and physical activity are essential for public health and are therefore an important component of health promotion and prevention within the framework of the National Prevention Strategy. Promoting physical activity is also an integral part of the National Health Goals ‘Growing up healthy’, ‘Living and working healthily’ and ‘Growing older healthily’ and is therefore part of the federal framework recommendations and state framework agreements as part of the implementation of the ‘Act to Strengthen Health Promotion and Prevention’

 

A state working group under the umbrella of the Conference of Health Ministers (GMK), the working group ‘Health Reporting, Prevention, Rehabilitation and Social Medicine’ has developed a prevention indicator system for the prevention reporting of the states (see discussion paper). According to the resolution of the 94th GMK on 16 June 2021, agenda item 12.2, the prevention indicators ‘can be the starting point for the development of prevention reporting in their own state’ as well as ‘a basis for coordinated and comparable reporting on health promotion and prevention between the states, from which coordinated findings are then made available to the National Prevention Conference as a state contribution for use in the National Prevention Report’. The working group of the supreme state health authorities commissioned the working group to continue work on coordinated and comparable reporting on health promotion and prevention between the states on the basis of prevention indicators with the aim of establishing state-based and partially standardised prevention reporting (for more information click here). 

The indicator system contains so-called ‘development indicators’, which cover important monitoring needs in the area of health promotion and prevention, but for which there is no conceptual clarification, data basis, legal basis or funding. These indicators must first be conceptually developed, operationalised and tested (further information can be found further information can be found here ). 

Topic 5 ‘Physical activity’ includes the three development indicators ‘modal split’, ‘walkability’ and ‘bikeability’, which are to be developed as part of the project. SenWGP is part of the public health service at state level in Berlin, where the development indicators are to be filled with data as an example. 

 

Aims 

Elaboration of the development indicators on ‘modal split’, ‘walkability’ and ‘bikeability’ contained in topic area 5 of the prevention indicator system of the federal states. Particular attention is paid to ensuring that the concepts enable the indicators to be regularly filled in at country level and thus enable monitoring. 

The named indicators of the KAB-Mon project serve the following sub-goals: 

  1. Development of an indicator concept for ‘modal split’.  Mapping of everyday habits in the area of movement in the sense of a rough assessment of everyday movement. 
  1. Development of an indicator concept for ‘walkability’ and ‘bikeability’. The indicators are regarded as structural indicators for active everyday mobility and the facilitation of everyday physical activity in the sense of a preventive approach. 
  1. Development of an indicator concept for ‘Physical activity as a building block in the educational framework plan for day-care centres’. The indicator should enable an analysis of the educational framework plans and possibly other policy documents with regard to the structural anchoring of physical activity promotion in the day-care centre setting based on criteria. 
  1. Testing and pilot processing of the above-mentioned indicators using the example of Berlin. 

 

 

Project Leads: Prof. Dr. Anne Kerstin Reimers (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Chair of Public Health and Physical Activity), Prof. Dr. Peter Gelius (Université de Lausanne), PD Dr. Karim Abu-Omar (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Chair of Physical Activity and Health), Dr. Jonas Finger (SenWGP Berlin), PD Dr. Antje Hebestreit (BIPS Bremen) 

Project Partner: Senate Department for Science, Health and Care, Berlin; Leibniz-Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology, Bremen; Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Chair of Public Health and Physical Activity + Chair of Physical Activity and Health) 

Research Team FAU: PD Dr. Karim Abu-Omar, Dr. Sven Messing, Johannes Brandl (Chair of Physical Activity and Health), Clara Tristram (Chair of Public Health and Physical Activity) 

Funding: Federal Ministry of Health Germany 

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