Im Mittelpunkt der heutigen öffentlichen Gesundheit steht die Digitalisierung. Digitale Gesundheitsinterventionen haben im 21. Jahrhundert mehr denn je die Aufgabe, die Prävention und das Management nichtübertragbarer Krankheiten im Alltag von Betroffenen zu unterstützen und existierende Gesundheitsdienstleistungen sinnvoll zu ergänzen. Es fehlen allerdings noch etablierte Richtlinien für die Entwicklung und Evaluation digitaler ...

On March 16, 2020, 3700 participants who completed the MOBIS study between September 2019 and January 2020 were invited to reinstall the GPS Logger and Travel Diary App ‘Catch-My-Day’, developed by MotionTag, to record their mobility behaviour during the period of special measures implemented to control the spread of the Corona Virus. The first 4 weeks of mobility data from the original MOBIS Study is taken for each participant as a ...

Allocation decisions are vulnerable to political influence, but it is unclear in which situations politicians use their discretionary power in a partisan manner. We analyze the allocation of presidential disaster declarations in the United States, exploiting the spatiotemporal randomness of all hurricane strikes from 1965–2018. We show that biased declaration behavior is not politically affordable if a disaster is either very strong or ...

We examine the dynamic effects of housing demand shocks on a large set of U.S. macroeconomic series and detailed household balance sheet components for four wealth percentile groups. The results show that a positive housing shock translates into a large and persistent boom of economic activity, an expansion of credit and an increase of interest rates. While households of all wealth percentile groups make heavy use of home equity-based ...