Christa Scheidt-Nave, Christin Heidemann, Lukas Reitzle, Maike Buchmann, Thomas Ziese, Andrea Icks
26 JUNE 2024
ISSUE 2
Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disorder of blood sugar metabolism that requires life-style adjustments and often lifelong treatment with blood sugar-lowering medications.
In order to ensure a continuous and systematic assessment of the epidemiological situation, the burden of disease and the need for prevention and care in connection with diabetes in Germany, the Federal Ministry of Health in Germany (BMG) has been funding the establishment of diabetes surveillance at the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) and its expansion into NCD surveillance since 2015.
The articles published in the Journal of Health Monitoring in the second quarter of 2024 illustrate the relevance and potential of indicator-based NCD surveillance as a basis for coordinated and evidence-based prevention and care of diabetes mellitus and other important NCDs.