{"title":"[Passive smoking does not usually lead to relevant pathological changes in lung function in healthy adults].","authors":"M Kentner","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75776,"journal":{"name":"Das Offentliche Gesundheitswesen","volume":"53 Suppl 2 ","pages":"148-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12999188","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":"[Trends in the number of patients with senile dementia and need for nursing care in the upcoming 50 years--a demographic projection based on epidemiologic data for former West Germany].","authors":"H Häfner, W Löffler","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>According to population projections there will shortly be an increase in the number of aged people. Since these population groups show a high risk to develop old age dementia and because this sickness goes along with the need of care, it is necessary for planning future needs of buildings and funds to know about the extent of expected dementia and the number of people needing care. Based on population projections up to the year 2040 for the (West) German Länder of the Federal Republic of Germany and based on four epidemiological studies, we developed a model to project empirically the number of dementia cases for the next 50 years. This model is based on an exponential growth of prevalence with increasing age. According to our estimates the number of patients with severe and moderate dementia will rise by about 50% from 1990 until 2040. The expected number of people needing care is estimated to facilitate prospective planning as well as timely provision of adequate financial and personnel resources.</p>","PeriodicalId":75776,"journal":{"name":"Das Offentliche Gesundheitswesen","volume":"53 10","pages":"681-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12999892","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":"[Establishment of environmental medicine ambulatory/counseling facilities in public health offices--a promising concept?].","authors":"I Schaefer, N Schmacke, U Zolondek","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The establishment of medical environmental centres at public health offices is hardly questioned any longer even though it means a crucial shift regarding the points of emphasis in human ecology in general as well as the extension of the fields of activity in public health services. It is doubtful whether the individual-orientated approach of environmental medicine can meet the complexity of medical problems due to environmental factors or which rating preventive medicine can have in this context. Environmental medicine could well not only overtax the personnel resources of public health offices, as previous experience shows, but also change the fields of activity of public health services qualitatively. At present the lack of knowledge and experience in environmental medicine enables only research-orientated institutions to perform appropriate work in this field.</p>","PeriodicalId":75776,"journal":{"name":"Das Offentliche Gesundheitswesen","volume":"53 10","pages":"658-61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12998500","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":"[No super-carcinogen known in tobacco smoke].","authors":"D K Schmähl","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75776,"journal":{"name":"Das Offentliche Gesundheitswesen","volume":"53 Suppl 2 ","pages":"126-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12999182","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":"[Passive smoking is not harmful to acute lung function or to bronchial reactivity in either children or adults].","authors":"H Magnussen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75776,"journal":{"name":"Das Offentliche Gesundheitswesen","volume":"53 Suppl 2 ","pages":"162-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12999193","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":"[Lung cancer in a rural area of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern without air pollution].","authors":"A Schubert","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Results of an epidemiological study of malignant neoplasms of the trachea, the bronchus and the lungs in a rural district of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in North-Eastern Germany. The rate of disease in men and in women is determined by the proportion of age groups in the population in whom the probability of contracting the disease is highest. At first the incidence increased year by year, but now the rate of new cases seems to have levelled out and is now constant, i.e. approximately the same per annum. Despite constant or even increasing exposure e.g. to inhaled noxious substances via tobacco smoking, not all persons are equally susceptible. The levelling out of the incidence rate of cancer may be due to a genetically fixed susceptibility.</p>","PeriodicalId":75776,"journal":{"name":"Das Offentliche Gesundheitswesen","volume":"53 10","pages":"668-73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12998504","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}