Measuring the global diabetes targets in the WHO European Region: Germany case study

Overview

Five global diabetes targets have been developed to strengthen the prevention and control of diabetes. There are different approaches and data sources that can be used to measure progress against these targets within the WHO European Region. In Germany, diabetes surveillance is performed by the Diabetes Surveillance Project, with primary data on 40 diabetes indicators and indicator groups, collected based on different data sources. Routine health-care data are accessible to a limited extent due to strict data protection. The current German diabetes surveillance system enables four of the five global diabetes targets to be explicitly measured through health examination surveys, providing trends over time and for different population subgroups.