Promote health, prevent diseases
A "process to enable people to gain more control over their health and to improve it by influencing the determinants of health" - this is how health promotion has been defined internationally since the Jakarta Declaration of 1997. In Germany, health promotion is shortened in social law to "services...to promote the self-determined health-oriented actions of the insured" (§ 20 SGB V), even though the so-called settings approach is strengthened with the Prevention Act. The settings approach goes back to the socio-ecological model, according to which health arises in the interrelationship between people, their social environment, their living environments and the social and ecological framework conditions.
Research on health promotion and prevention includes questions about impact and effectiveness, about opportunities for participation, especially for socially and health disadvantaged groups, about the conditions for the success of health-promoting organisational development processes.
Prof. Dr. Henny Annette Grewe
Medical basics of nursing
Prof. Dr. Thilo Schlott
Human Biology and Statistics
Current publications
Karg S, Blättner B, Igde TS (2020). Health promotion with refugees. Präv Gesundheitsf. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11553-020-00804-x
Blättner B, Tempelmann A (2019): Needs assessment in inpatient care. Quality of life and health literacy from the perspective of care recipients and caregivers. Präv Gesundheitsf, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11553-019-00747-y.
Backhaus, O., Hampel, P. & Dadaczynski, K. (2018). Effort-reward imbalance and burnout in German kindergarten educators. European Journal of Health Psychology, 25(3), 73-82.
Backhaus, O., Hampel, P. & Dadaczynski, K. (2018). Depression among daycare professionals - prevalences and occupational psychological correlates. Early Education, 7, 223-230.
Blättner, B., Hintz, E., Winzerling, W., Ludolph, M. & Rudloff, M. (2016). Conception of a social network for family work. Studies in Communication Sciences, 16, 174-181.
Blättner, B. (2016). Setting Pflege - Prävention in Altenpflegeeinrichtungen. impu!se, 91, 8-9.
Blättner, B. (2016). Nutrition: universal prevention in residential care. Public Health Forum, 24(3), 228-230.
Blättner, B., Hintz, E. & Winzerling, W. (2016). Testing a social support network for families. FIfF Communications, 1/16, 28-31.
Dadaczynski, K.(2019). Prevention and health promotion in settings and lifeworlds. In: R. Haring (ed.), Health Sciences. Springer Reference Pflege - Theraphie - Gesundheit. Berlin: Springer.
Dadaczynski, K., Paulus, P & Horstmann, D. (2019, in press). The predictive value of individual and work-related resources for the health and work satisfaction of German school principals. Health Education Journal.
Dadaczynski, K., Plaumann, M., Alayli, A. & Thaiss, H. M. (2019). Framework conditions and legal foundations of health promotion and prevention in Germany. In J. Naidoo & J. Wills (Eds.), Textbook of health promotion (3rd ed., pp. 137-153). Göttingen: Hogrefe.
Dadaczynski, K. & Tolks, D. (2018). Playful approaches as an innovative communication strategy in health promotion and prevention. Prevention and Health Promotion, 13, 269-271.
Dadaczynski, K. (2018). Use and user experience of a gamified web application to promote physical activity in the workplace setting. Prevention and Health Promotion, 13, 312-318.
Dadaczynski, K., Quilling, E. & Walter, U. (Eds.) (2018). Obesity prevention in childhood and adolescence. Foundations, strategies and intervention concepts in lifeworlds. Göttingen: Hogrefe.
Dadaczynski, K. & Tolks, D. (2018). Digital Public Health. Opportunities and challenges of internet-based technologies and applications. Public Health Forum, 26, 275-278.
Dadaczynski, K., Schiemann, S. & Backhaus, O. (2017). Promoting physical activity in worksite settings: results of a German pilot study of the online intervention Healingo fit. BMC Public Health, 17:696.
Dadaczynski, K., Baumgarten, K. & Hartmann, T. (2016). Setting-based health promotion and prevention. Critical appraisal and challenges to the further development of a prominent approach. Prevention and Health Promotion, 11, 214-221.
Dadaczynski, K., Schiemann, S. & Paulus, P. (eds.) (2016). Promoting health through play: Potentials and challenges of digital game applications for health promotion and prevention. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa Verlag.
Dadaczynski, K. & Paulus, P. (2016). Well-being of school headmasters in Germany: characteristics and correlations with work and health. Prevention and Health Promotion, 11(3), 171-176.
Geene, R., Babitsch, B., Hassel, H., Kliche, T., Paulus, P., Quilling, E., Süß, W., Walter, U. & Dadaczynski, K. (2019, online first). Conceptual approaches in the prevention of child overweight in Germany-the research project 'Systematization of Conceptual Approaches' (SCAP). Journal of Public Health.
Horstmann, D., Tolks, D., Dadaczynski, K. & Paulus, P. (2018). Promoting well-being through 'gamification'. A project to adapt and evaluate the "Wellbeing Game" for the German-speaking context. Prevention and Health Promotion, 13, 305-3111.
Paulus, P., Hundeloh, H. & Dadaczynski, K. (2016). Health promotion and prevention in the school setting. Opportunities through the new Prevention Act. Prevention and Health Promotion, 11, 237-242.
Peperkorn, M., Horstmann, D., Dadaczynski, K. & Paulus, P. (2017). Teachers' experience of stress due to school-based inclusion. Public Health Forum, 25, 294-297.
Quilling, E.*, Dadaczynski, K.* & Müller, M. (2016). Setting-based prevention of childhood and adolescent obesity. Theoretical foundation, influencing factors and intervention planning. Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Health Research - Health Protection, 59, 1394-1404. (*shared first authorship).
Stricker, J., Rathmann, K. & Dadaczynski, K. (in press). Social differences in health literacy among students: Results of an online study at the Technical University of Dortmund. Prevention and Health Promotion.
Tolks, D., Sailer, M., Dadaczynski, K., Lampert, C., Huberty, J. & Horstmann, D. (2019). ONYA - The Wellbeing Game: How to use gamification to promote wellbeing. Information, 10:58.
Tolks, D., Dadaczynski, K. & Horstmann, D. (2018). Introduction to the past, present and future of Serous Games (for Health). Prevention and Health Promotion, 13, 272-279.
von Rueden, U. & Dadaczynski, K. (2017). Considerations on establishing prevention reporting at the national level in Germany. Journal of Health Monitoring, 2017 2(S2), 8-11.
