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Gesundheitswesen

Title:		[Evaluation of environmental medicine documentation in Schleswig-Holstein 1995-1999]
Author(s):		Bauer A; Alsen-Hinrichs C; Wassermann O;
Address:		"Institut fur Toxikologie, Klinikum der Christian-Albrechts-Universitat, Kiel. Ankebauer@aol.com"
Journal Title:		Gesundheitswesen
Year:		2001
Volume:		63
Issue:		4
Page Number:		231 - 237
DOI:		10.1055/s-2001-12911
ISSN/ISBN:		0941-3790 (Print) 0941-3790 (Linking)
Abstract:		"Physicians qualified in environmentally related disorders due to their participation in special training courses in the Federal State of Schleswig-Holstein (Germany) used a standardised questionnaire to report on their environmental medicine related cases. The course of the illness, if known, has been documented on a separate data sheet. During the period from 1995-1999 916 cases and 508 courses of illness were assessed. The environmental factors/toxicants of exposure most frequently documented by the 85 participating physicians and found to be related to symptoms of illness were biocides (mainly insecticides used indoors for pest control (32%), moulds (27%), dental amalgam (22%), solvents/volatile organic compounds (21%) and formaldehyde (16%), respectively. In 42% of the documented cases an exposure to more than one environmental factor/toxicant was registered. Age distribution, gender, location of exposure as well as the symptoms of illness of the patients were found to be dependent on the type of exposure. Cessation of exposure to harmful substances/environments was achieved in 54% of those cases where information regarding the course of the illness was given. In 65% of these cases recovery was reported and 30% recovered partially. In those cases where a cessation of exposure could not be achieved or was not complete, no or only partial recovery was mostly reported. From these results it may be concluded that research work on environmentally related disorders should be enforced in order to prevent unnecessary illness and to lower the public health system expenditure"
Keywords:		"Adolescent Adult Aged Child Child, Preschool Cross-Sectional Studies Data Collection/statistics & numerical data Documentation/*methods Environmental Exposure/statistics & numerical data Environmental Illness/*epidemiology/etiology Environmental Medicine/;"
Notes:		"MedlineBauer, A Alsen-Hinrichs, C Wassermann, O ger English Abstract Germany 2001/05/23 Gesundheitswesen. 2001 Apr; 63(4):231-7. doi: 10.1055/s-2001-12911"