The aim behind the establishment of the Centre for
Environmental Medicine and Environmental Epidemiology (UMZ) in 1993
was to intensify activities in the sphere of environmental medicine.
This joint centre provides the UFZ's scientifically focused Department
of Exposure Research and Epidemiology with access to patients. Moreover,
the clinics and institutes at the Universität Leipzig benefit
by being able to use the UFZ's diagnostic expertise in the field
of environmental medicine.
The main areas of cooperation are:
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Research into environmental medicine and
environmental epidemiology
Research at the UMZ focuses on allergies and
the environment, and includes investigations into the immunological
reactions involved. Research is based on epidemiological long-term
and cross-section studies as well as intervention studies. The
target group comprises children and other groups of patients
particularly affected owing to specific environmental exposure.
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Teaching and further training
In addition to a series of lectures entitled
"Environmental Medicine" and the annual Symposium
on Environmental Medicine, the UMZ holds a course on environmental
medicine on behalf of the Saxon Medical Council in accordance
with the further training regulations put forward by the German
Medical Council.
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Information, advice and care in environmental
medicine
Information on individual exposure and the health
effects of specific exposure is provided in conjunction with
the responsible local authority health departments. In addition,
doctors are given methodological assistance and extensive advice
regarding the diagnosis of environmentally associated diseases.
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