Interreg II - Euregionale Untersuchungen zu chronischen Atemwegserkrankungen bei Kindern im deutsch- niederländischen Grenzraum
| Autor: | M. Weishoff-Houben, Monique Mommers, R. Derkx, A. Steup, A.W. Jongmans-Liedekerken, B. Ziemer, P. Mertens, K H Feldhoff, Wolfgang Dott |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry Cross-sectional study Incidence (epidemiology) Public health Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health medicine.disease medicine.anatomical_structure Environmental health Medicine Bronchitis Respiratory system Border zone business Asthma Respiratory tract |
| Zdroj: | Das Gesundheitswesen. 63:166-169 |
| ISSN: | 1439-4421 0941-3790 |
| DOI: | 10.1055/s-2001-11970 |
| Popis: | Aim of the study In Westelijke Mijnstreek (WM), Midden-Limburg (ML), both The Netherlands, and Kreis Heinsberg (HS), Germany, the relationship between quality of the indoor environment and respiratory symptoms in children was studied, finally resulting in proposals for prevention of respiratory symptoms in the three regions. This paper presents the results of the first part of the study, investigating prevalences of respiratory complaints. Methods and results A brief questionnaire was used to document prevalences of respiratory complaints, physicians diagnoses and treatment in about 7,000 children 5-6 resp. 7-8 years of age from HS, ML and WM, in 1995 and 1997. Prevalences of respiratory symptoms differed slightly between the regions, but there were differences in physician-diagnosed asthma and bronchitis and treatment of the children. Perspectives The brief questionnaire is a useful instrument to get an overview on respiratory symptoms. Since 1995, it is used by several German Municipal Health Services for Public Health Reports. |
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