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Orthopaedics and
Traumatology in Germany
Prof. Dr. med. Joachim Grifka
President of the German Orthopaedic Association 2008
Orthopädische Klinik für die Universität Regensburg
im Asklepios Klinikum Bad Abbach
Private praxis
Facts about Germany
Area
357.092,90 km²
Population
83 Million
Population density
230 per km²
Health Care in Germany
• Largest employment sector in Germany
(over 4 Million jobs)
• 2.104 hospitals
• Appr. 1000 rehabilitation departments
Costs of public health care
• Multiple public insurance organizations linked by
a common legal framework
• 11,1 % of GDP is spent on health (2,5 % more
than the average OECD member countries)
Number of cases
• Currently over 30 million people
are suffering from MSD*
• Increasing of MSD* as main diagnosis between
1994 and 2005 up to 37,1 %
(MSD* cases 1994: 1.021.265
2005: 1.400.649)
• Back pain is the second most common diagnosis;
three-month prevalence children/ youth 32,9%
• 2005: 367.593 people with arthrosis for admission
*musculoskeletal diseases
Costs of public health care
Total expediture / year
€ 234 bil
- Thereof women / year
€ 3.160 per head
- Thereof men / year
€ 2.240 per head
- Thereof hospital
expences / year
34,0 %
Expenses for MSD
• direct health care costs (2002)
degenerative: 25,2 bil €
traumatical
10,6 bil €
→ about 16 % of total health care costs
→ more than 1,7 % of the German GDP
Number of musculoskeletal diseases Germany
• leading cause for work disablement (wd)
degenerative
traumatical
18 %
9%
of all wd cases
27 %
13 %
of all wd days
→ loss of production more than 100 bil €
→ according to 4,8 % of German GDP
• 25 % of all early retirements
Endoprotheses in Germany acc. FBMTI
joint
type
knee
uni-condyle
hip
bi- condyle
revision
prim
short diaphysis
revision
surface replacem.
ankle
shoulder
Units in 2007
9.000
134.000
12.000
180.000
9.400
7.500
4.000
1.520
9.250
Actual survival curve age-group over 60 years
Niehaus, F.: Auswirkungen des Alters auf die Gesundheitsausgaben, WIP-Diskussionspapier 5/06
Effect of age opposite health care costs
Costs for health service per year - men
Niehaus, F.: Auswirkungen des Alters auf die Gesundheitsausgaben, WIP-Diskussionspapier 5/06
Costs for health service per year - women
Source: Niehaus, F.: Auswirkungen des Alters auf die Gesundheitsausgaben, WIP-Diskussionspapier 5/06
Increase of costs for health service from 1995 to 2004
Niehaus, F.: Auswirkungen des Alters auf die Gesundheitsausgaben, WIP-Diskussionspapier 5/06
Population of Germany 2000 and 2050
Quelle: Statistisches Bundesamt (2006 a)
Demographical change 2000 - 2050
2040
2000
2010
2020
2030
Population / Mill.
82,3
81,9
80,1
77,2 73,4
68,8 - 16,4
Population 65 and
older / Mill.
13,7
16,8
18,6
22,1 23,5
22,9 + 67,2
Population 80 and
older / Mill.
3,1
4,3
5,9
6,3
10,0 + 222,6
Population employable
age (20 to 65) / Mill.
51,2
50,0
48,0
42,4 38,4
7,9
2050
Changes 2000
until 2050 in %
Classification
35,5 -30,7
Beske, F. u.a.: Gesundheitsversorgung 2050, Kiel 2007
Statistics of physicians
Physicians altogether
407.000
- Thereof outpatient section
- Thereof inpatient section
- Thereof orthopeadic specialists
136.000
148.300
8906
BVOU
ca. 6950 Members
Orthopaedic Surgeons, mostly in private praxis
Average age of physicians
55
50
45
Private praxis
Hospital
40
35
30
1993
1995
1997
1999
2001
2003
2005
Physicians under the age of 35
30
25
20
15
%
10
5
0
1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
Students human medicine
95.000
90.000
85.000
80.000
75.000
70.000
1993 1994 1995 1996
1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
Certified surgeons
2004
2005
2006
Male
731
657
589
Female
215
214
201
Total
946
871
790
German Orthopaedic Association
• Founded in 1901
• 2448 members
• Amalgamation of German Orthopaedic
Association and German Trauma Association
in 2008
• Annual congress in Berlin
Research funding
• so far 2,8 % of annual research funding by BMBF*¹
and DFG*² for musculoskeletal science
• 360.000 € by DGOOC*³ for determined sponsorship
regenerative and biomechanical projects in research
network
• expectations to Road Map-Agenda by BMBF*¹
*¹ Federal Ministry of Education and Research
*² German Research Foundation
*³ German Orthopaedic Association
Treatment options MSD*
• Incidence und prevalence MSD*
conditioned to age and sex
• Training situation and qualification
• Orthopaedic surgeon is the „General
practitioner“ for bones and joints
*musculoskeletal diseases
Objectives
• individual and age-based health promotion
• enhancing attractiveness of medical profession
• investive social policy: prevention before rehab
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