Sport as a medicine?

Evidence base of sport as "medicine" is a core topic at the SMHS 2021 Prof. Dr. Martin Scherer provides deeper insights into this question in an interview format of "3 questions, 3 answers".

High innovation potential of sport and exercise in health care

With a format of "3 questions, 3 answers", Prof. Dr. med. Martin Scherer, President of the German Society for General Medicine and Family Medicine (German acronym: DEGAM) and Director of the Institute for General Medicine at the Hamburg-Eppendorf University Hospital (Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf or UKE), provides deeper insights. In conversation with Daniel R. Schmidt, from the German Society for Social Psychiatry (in German: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziale Psychiatrie or DGSP e.V.), Prof. Scherer looks at the role of general practitioners and family physicians with regard to evidence-based information and looks at the role of "exercise as a prescription".

This interview in the German language. Please activate the automatic translation subtitles by clicking the CC option provided in the video window.