Centre for Environmental Medicine and Environmental Epidemiology (UMZ)

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Research Activities at the Centre

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 University Leipzig benefit by being able to use the UFZ's diagnostic expertise in the field of environmental medicine. Since 2004 the Academic Training Hospital "St. Georg" is involved in the UMZ.

The main areas of cooperation are:

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.

Teaching and further training
In addition to a series of lectures entitled "clinical Environmental Medicine" (according to ÄAppO) the UMZ organizes the annual Symposium on Environmental Medicine.

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. In addition for patients with environmental associated disorder san outpatients' department for children and adults is established since more than 10 years.



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