{"title":"[Surgical possibilities in orthopedic rheumatology].","authors":"W Tressel, G Köhler, F Buchner","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Surgery has been a mainstay in the treatment of rheumatic conditions. Basically, its effect is limited to the site involved. Reconstruction of a damaged component of the locomotor system, however, may also relieve other components, and thus improve their function. Usually the prescribed drug treatment and physiotherapy must be continued, although the rehabilitation of individual, particularly severely affected joints may result in reduced drug intake. Surgery is indicated in the early stages, when isolated joint inflammations remain unchanged for more than half a year in spite of intensive physical and drug treatment. Best results have been achieved with preventive procedures (synovectomy, tenosynovectomy) carried out before joint alterations become evident in the x-ray. These procedures can also be performed in advanced stages, usually together with reconstructive measures. These patients, however, must expect some discomfort to remain, because of the irreversible joint damage already incurred. The operations selected for advanced cases include corrective osteotomies, resection arthroplasties and arthrodeses. To date, satisfactory long-term results of allo-arthroplastic joint replacements are only assured in terms of hip and, with reservations, knee prostheses.</p>","PeriodicalId":75776,"journal":{"name":"Das Offentliche Gesundheitswesen","volume":"53 8-9","pages":"421-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12998649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Suggestion catalog for basic equipment of a public health office in the area of environmental laboratories].","authors":"O F Witte","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75776,"journal":{"name":"Das Offentliche Gesundheitswesen","volume":"53 8-9","pages":"625"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12998933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Development of the public health services in the Brandenburg district--a contribution to the panel discussion in Augsburg 1991].","authors":"H W Knackmuss","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The author reports on the previous development of Public Health services in the Land of Brandenburg which was formerly part of the now defunct German Democratic Republic. Marked differences compared with the other four Lands previously belonging to the GDR, now integrated into the FRG, are described. The health policy of the Brandenburg Land government has so far exercised a negative effect on Public Health services. Problems of training are discussed. The Association of Physicians of Public Health Services of the Land of Brandenburg played a consultant and major role in promoting the setting-up of the Public Health offices. The author reports on Land legislative activities in the Public Health services sphere.</p>","PeriodicalId":75776,"journal":{"name":"Das Offentliche Gesundheitswesen","volume":"53 8-9","pages":"639-42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12998941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Current problems of echinococcosis (Echinococcus multilocularis)].","authors":"P Kimmig, U Schelling","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Alveolar echinococcosis is by far the most dangerous human parasitosis in Central Europe. For the one part this is due to the fact that the parasite is localised in the liver, and for the second part it is due to the infiltrative growth of the larval cestode tissue. The life cycle of echinococcus multilocularis takes place primarily between the fox as final host and mice as intermediate hosts. In this cycle, man is an accidental host and is infected orally via the intake of cestode eggs. The individual channels of infection and their frequency have so far only been subject to speculation. The infection rate of foxes is highest in the range of the Swabian mountain pastures (known as Schwäbische Alb) (up to 55 per cent), but recently values of more than 30% have been registered in the adjacent areas as well. No accurate data are available on the infection rate in humans; seroepidemiological data indicate a prevalence between 0.1 and 0.5 per thousand. IHA, IIFT and ELISA are the most frequently used methods in serodiagnostics of echinococcosis. The specific E. multilocularis antigen should be used instead of the commercially available E. granulosus antigen when examining patients for alveolar echinococcosis. In clinical diagnostics, sonography and especially CT are well tried. If the parasitic infestation is discovered early, radical surgery is the method of choice. Chemotherapy with mebendazole (e.g. Vermox) is still unsatisfactory despite improvements. Possibly an echinococcus therapy of foxes via baits containing praziquantel may be a possibility to minimize the transfer to the human organism.</p>","PeriodicalId":75776,"journal":{"name":"Das Offentliche Gesundheitswesen","volume":"53 8-9","pages":"596-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12999656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Has exercise entered the work environment? A contribution of sports and exercise concepts to prevention in the work environment].","authors":"R Lensing-Conrady","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Disabilities due to disorders of the locomotor system are now ranking first among the causes of early retirement of workers. That is why both employers and workers are increasingly setting great store by preventing such disabilities. Mobility programmes are being offered to an increasing extent by firms that specialize in developing such health-promoting concepts. Mobility programmes must be adapted to the special nature of the company that uses them, and to the available facilities. Specialist firms offering such programmes should therefore familiarize themselves with the conditions obtaining at a particular company, especially with those areas of work in which the employees are exposed to particularly high stress, so that they can work out suitable programmes. To this end they must cooperate closely with the company's multiplicators.</p>","PeriodicalId":75776,"journal":{"name":"Das Offentliche Gesundheitswesen","volume":"53 Suppl 1 ","pages":"48-54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12997601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Stress and stress prevention in occupational practice from the viewpoint of occupational experts].","authors":"I Winter","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Stress is a common and widespread phenomenon in today's life and work. In a company it is present in all divisions and at all levels of activity. How to tackle stress is a difficult and by no means uniform problem. Some companies offer their employees possibilities to prevent or reduce stress. It is shown what this can look like and what are the pre-requisites and general conditions to achieve it.</p>","PeriodicalId":75776,"journal":{"name":"Das Offentliche Gesundheitswesen","volume":"53 Suppl 1 ","pages":"55-62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12997602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[AIDS prevention by the public health office: a necessary evil?].","authors":"R Jarchow","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Nobody questions that public health offices have the legal obligation to engage in AIDS prevention. Public health authorities will always ensure that there is cooperation with other local organisations (\"AIDS-Hilfen\", drug-counselling agencies, gay organisations, self-help groups, welfare associations), but coordination of the multiple tasks and goals is its own special concern. Based on two examples from male homosexuality and prostitution the author points out some problems that may arise for public health offices and at the same time tries to encourage them to face these problems.</p>","PeriodicalId":75776,"journal":{"name":"Das Offentliche Gesundheitswesen","volume":"53 8-9","pages":"444-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12998531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Experiences with levomethadone substitution in AIDS patients with intravenous drug dependence].","authors":"O Rüter, B Haardt, S Demelius","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>LMS of heroin addicts with AIDS is to be seen first of all as a part of AIDS prevention, secondly as an individual help for these very ill patients. The legal basis for North-Rhine Westphalia is described. In the district of Recklinghausen the Public Health Office developed a procedure for the LMS according to existing rules of the district of Unna and summarized it in 12 points after discussions with the Department of Public Prosecution. It contains procedural rules such as establishing the indication, agreement between doctor and patient, psychosocial care, prescription for levomethadone, urine analysis for control of other additional abuse, notice to the Public Health Commissioner, and a working group between all involved parties. In the district of Recklinghausen we have experiences with 14 IV-drug addicts infected with AIDS who receive or received levomethadone. Up to now we observe mostly positive experiences concerning social reintegration and the reduction of crime incidence among these people. It is most important that patients can be stabilized to be able to undergo AIDS specific therapy or prophylactic medication against opportunistic infections.</p>","PeriodicalId":75776,"journal":{"name":"Das Offentliche Gesundheitswesen","volume":"53 8-9","pages":"447-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12998535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Significance of urban climatologic expert assessment for urban planning and development].","authors":"J Jacobeit","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Aspects of urban climatology relevant to urban planning are given in respect of quality of the atmosphere and urban climate modification. This paper deals with the spatial evaluation of emission and incidence of air pollution, local conditions of air flow and diffusion, climatic effects of different surface types and conditions of urban ventilation.</p>","PeriodicalId":75776,"journal":{"name":"Das Offentliche Gesundheitswesen","volume":"53 8-9","pages":"424-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12998650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}