EXPERIENCES WITH ENVIRONMENT-RELATED HEALTH DISORDERS IN THE GERMAN SPEAKING AREA

摘要

In the German speaking area, environmental medicine outpatient clinics, counseling centers and practicing physicians have observed environment-related health disorders in patient groups of mixed age, as well as for groups consisting only of adults resp. children. In all patient cohorts the mainly suspected causative factors for health disorders were located in the indoor environment. Practicing physicians suspected correlations between environmental factors and health disorders between 36% and 45%, environmental medicine outpatient clinics and counseling centers between 4% and 34% for mixed-age groups, and between 0% and 24% for adults as well as between 9% and 13% for children.