challenges for the pension system. However, a prolonged working life impacts a person’s health. Detailed data from the statutory … health insurance companies shows that abolishing the "Rente für Frauen" (women’s pension) in 1999, which allowed women to … retire at 60, resulted in negative health effects. Women who were affected by the reform and could not retire until age 63 …

declined by up to 20 percent. As this study based on administrative diagnosis data of all statutory health insurance companies …’s health in day care centers and schools in the future, as good health is an important prerequisite for the ability to learn … effectively. In addition, more attention should be paid to the current developments in child health, as it seems likely that …