[Local public health reporting as a basis for planning health promotion for children]

The Health Report (Gesundheitsberichterstattung, GBE) describes the health of the overall population and also highlights areas or topics where specific action may be required. Additionally, in line with a new definition, the GBE provides an objective basis for participative processes, thereby building a bridge to health promotion concepts.Municipal integrated health strategies (municipal prevention chains) are based on the salutogenesis concept. One particularly important characteristic of prevention chains is, among others, their participative approach to develop need-based measures on a municipal level. This implies an overarching way of working and a coordinated approach between several stakeholders. Moreover, it requires a combination of health, social, and environmental data, as well as integrated GBE, which serves as a planning basis.In the federal state of Brandenburg, two test regions were chosen, and a municipal prevention chain was followed and monitored by the Health Equity Coordination Office (Koordinierungsstelle Gesundheitliche Chancengleichheit) during the implementation period. In the context of an evaluation, barriers and success factors were identified. During the implementation period four additional phases were identified and specific aspects were also assigned to these phases. Moreover, social environmental oriented data should be reliable, continuously collected, and allow for a local comparability. Data combined from different providers, supplemented with subjective data, could fill the gap and support participative processes.How a good integration in municipal planning processes can be successful, as well as correlated questions about necessary resources, will need to be investigated in future processes.