TY  - JOUR
A1  - Dieckelmann, Mirjam
A1  - Schütze, Dania
A1  - Gerber, Meike
A1  - Siebenhofer, Andrea
A1  - Engler, Jennifer
T1  - Preventive and health-promoting activities in general practices in Germany: A scoping review
T2  - Health & social care in the community
N2  - General practices are rooted in the local community and considered to be particularly well-positioned for engaging in preventive and health-promoting activities. The overall aim of the scoping review is to identify priorities and gaps in research published in the past 20 years on preventive and health-promoting activities provided by general practitioners or their teams in general practices in Germany. MEDLINE and Embase databases were systematically searched in November 2020. Papers were selected in dual-review mode and extracted in single-review mode. Data analysis was finished by May 2021. In total, 530 papers were included in the synthesis. Little research has been carried out into collaboration opportunities both within the general practice team and in communities as a whole, with specialists (18%), hospitals (9%), and health insurance companies (6%) being the most frequent cooperation partners of GPs. 15%–20% of papers each dealt with ‘early detection’, ‘information provision’ and ‘cardiovascular prevention’. Secondary (53%) and tertiary prevention (43%) was more often the subject of research than primary (39%) and quaternary prevention (15%). Healthy subjects (26%) were less often studied than people with pre-existing conditions (42%) and risk factors (48%). Little information was available on preventive activities in terms of gender, young people, migration background, housing conditions or educational background. Personal counselling (15%) was the most frequently described approach to health promotion in general practices, along with printed information materials (10%). This scoping review provides information on which to base targeted interventions and future research that can contribute towards transforming general practices into promoters of health within the community.
KW  - general practice
KW  - Germany
KW  - health education
KW  - outpatient care
KW  - preventive health services
KW  - primary health care
KW  - systematic review
Y1  - 2022
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/76317
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-763170
SN  - 1365-2524
N1  - Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.
VL  - 30
IS  - 6
SP  - 2025
EP  - 2036
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Oxford [u.a.]
ER  -