Health Report 2017
Young adults lack health education?
“Generation clueless” in health-related questions
The results are alarming: Young people lack knowledge when it comes to health education. Far too many of the next generation cannot answer basic questions on important health-related topics. STADA is therefore supporting calls for schools to teach our children more intensively about health. People for whom health played a major role at school were found to have an above-average level of health literacy in the STADA Health Report 2017. 80 percent of the 18 to 24-year-olds questioned in the representative survey would like health to be a subject at school. Health topics have so far only been discussed as individual projects in our classrooms, for example within existing subjects. But that is not enough. We need »Health« to be a school subject.
Double interview: “There is no health education”
Dr. Johannes Wimmer works as a medical doctor, book author and television entertainer. It was quickly clear to him that he wanted to go public, primarily to achieve one thing: an improvement in doctor-patient communication. In November 2015 he published his first book, »Fragen Sie Dr. Johannes« [Ask Dr. Johannes], the second book »Alles über die Haut« [All about skin], was released in April 2016 and reached the SPIEGEL bestseller list. Dr. Wimmer has his own television show on the NDR channel in Germany (»Wissen ist die beste Medizin« [Knowledge is the best medicine]) and gives presentations at health policy congresses and conferences.
Prof. Dr. Klaus Hurrelmann is a social scientist focused on youth, education and health care research. He was awarded a professorship at the University of Essen in 1975, moved to the University of Bielefeld in 1979 and has been a Senior Professor of Public Health and Education at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin since 2009. Hurrelmann has coordinated multiple studies of children and young people and is part of the management team of World Vision Children Studies as well as the Shell studies of young people. His international work has resulted in guest professorships at the New York University for Public Health and the University of California in Los Angeles.
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