west germany

Summary

Alias: west germany

Webpages

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    www.utmem.edu/pharmacology/faculty/malik.html

Research Grants

  1. MORTALITY-SURFACE ANALYSIS OF U.S. AND GERMAN SURVIVAL
    James Vaupel; Fiscal Year: 2007
  2. Preparation for Future Care in Older Adults
    SILVIA SORENSEN; Fiscal Year: 2007
  3. Emotional Factors that Promote Successful Aging
    Richard Lucas; Fiscal Year: 2006
  4. Does Emotional Well-Being Promote Successful Aging?
    Richard Lucas; Fiscal Year: 2005
  5. VALIDATION OF A PREPARATION FOR FUTURE CARE MEASURE WITH OLDER AFRICAN-AMERICANS
    SILVIA SORENSEN; Fiscal Year: 2003
  6. Explaining the Extraversion /Positive Affect Relation
    Richard Lucas; Fiscal Year: 2002
  7. Improving Care Planning and Well-being in Older Adults with Macular Degeneration
    SILVIA SORENSEN; Fiscal Year: 2009

Publications

  1. Changing health inequalities in east and west Germany since unification
    Ellen Nolte
    London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
    Soc Sci Med 58:119-36
  2. After the fall of the Berlin Wall: perceptions and consequences of stability and change among middle-aged and older East and West Germans
    Gerben J Westerhof
    Center for Psychogerontology, Radboud University Nijmegen, P O Box 9104, 6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlands
    J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 61:S240-7
  3. Social epidemiology after the German reunification: East vs. West or poor vs. rich?
    Oliver Razum
    Bielefeld University School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology and International Public Health, Bielefeld, Germany
    Int J Public Health 53:13-22
  4. Height and weight in Germany, evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel, 2002
    Guido Heineck
    University of Erlangen Nuremberg, Department of Economics, Lange Gasse 20, Nuremberg D 90403, Germany
    Econ Hum Biol 4:359-82
  5. [Legal abortion--embryo-fetocide--threatening auto-genocide?]
    A Fenner
    Direktor i. R. der Klinik für Neonatologie, Medizinische Universität zu Lübeck
    Dtsch Med Wochenschr 128:1788-91
  6. Back pain, a communicable disease?
    Heiner Raspe
    Institute for Social Medicine, University of Luebeck, D Luebeck, Germany
    Int J Epidemiol 37:69-74
  7. Trends in mortality attributable to current alcohol consumption in east and west Germany
    Ellen Nolte
    European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, WC1E 7HT, London, UK
    Soc Sci Med 56:1385-95
  8. [Development of tuberculosis in Germany--a comparison between former West and East Germany]
    R Ferlinz
    Deutsches Zentralkomitee zur Bekämpfung der Tuberkulose, Mainz
    Pneumologie 48:160-3
  9. Self-esteem, academic self-concept, and achievement: how the learning environment moderates the dynamics of self-concept
    Ulrich Trautwein
    Center for Educational Research, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    J Pers Soc Psychol 90:334-49
  10. [East-West educational dialogue in nursing: "Decisive are the heads" (interview by Katrin Balzer)]
    Ursula Oelssner
    Pflege Z 56:806-9

Detail Information

Research Grants24

  1. MORTALITY-SURFACE ANALYSIS OF U.S. AND GERMAN SURVIVAL
    James Vaupel; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..for the United States, for regional and black and white sub-populations knot the United States, for East and West Germany and for 15 other countries...
  2. Preparation for Future Care in Older Adults
    SILVIA SORENSEN; Fiscal Year: 2007
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  3. Emotional Factors that Promote Successful Aging
    Richard Lucas; Fiscal Year: 2006
    ..Ultimately, this research should be able to identify psychological risk factors and mechanisms that may be amenable to intervention, thereby increasing physical health and longevity. ..
  4. Does Emotional Well-Being Promote Successful Aging?
    Richard Lucas; Fiscal Year: 2005
    ..In addition, this study will inform both basic theories of emotion and more applied theories about mechanisms that may prevent mental and physical health declines over the course of the life span. ..
  5. VALIDATION OF A PREPARATION FOR FUTURE CARE MEASURE WITH OLDER AFRICAN-AMERICANS
    SILVIA SORENSEN; Fiscal Year: 2003
    ..The information gained will also contribute to the development of a screening tool for practitioners assisting older adults with care plans. ..
  6. Explaining the Extraversion /Positive Affect Relation
    Richard Lucas; Fiscal Year: 2002
    ..The results will also have implications for researchers' use of experience sampling measure of personality and emotion. ..
  7. Improving Care Planning and Well-being in Older Adults with Macular Degeneration
    SILVIA SORENSEN; Fiscal Year: 2009
    ....

Publications124 found, 100 most recent shown here

  1. Changing health inequalities in east and west Germany since unification
    Ellen Nolte
    London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
    Soc Sci Med 58:119-36
    ..of these changes during the 1990s, looking specifically at income-related health inequalities in east and west Germany and its modulation by psychosocial factors...
  2. After the fall of the Berlin Wall: perceptions and consequences of stability and change among middle-aged and older East and West Germans
    Gerben J Westerhof
    Center for Psychogerontology, Radboud University Nijmegen, P O Box 9104, 6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlands
    J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 61:S240-7
    ..Studying temporal comparisons is important in understanding the effects of historical events and their timing within an individual life course...
  3. Social epidemiology after the German reunification: East vs. West or poor vs. rich?
    Oliver Razum
    Bielefeld University School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology and International Public Health, Bielefeld, Germany
    Int J Public Health 53:13-22
    ..Concurrently, theoretical models explaining health inequalities need to be further developed so that they embrace contextual characteristics...
  4. Height and weight in Germany, evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel, 2002
    Guido Heineck
    University of Erlangen Nuremberg, Department of Economics, Lange Gasse 20, Nuremberg D 90403, Germany
    Econ Hum Biol 4:359-82
    ..BMI is also determined by individuals' characteristics with similar underlying patterns. That is, in both West and East Germany, women with low income and low education have a higher BMI whereas the better educated women weigh less...
  5. [Legal abortion--embryo-fetocide--threatening auto-genocide?]
    A Fenner
    Direktor i. R. der Klinik für Neonatologie, Medizinische Universität zu Lübeck
    Dtsch Med Wochenschr 128:1788-91
  6. Back pain, a communicable disease?
    Heiner Raspe
    Institute for Social Medicine, University of Luebeck, D Luebeck, Germany
    Int J Epidemiol 37:69-74
    ..Our hypothesis is corroborated by experimental research showing that BP-related beliefs, attitudes and behaviour could positively be influenced by media campaigns and by insights from another recent epidemic...
  7. Trends in mortality attributable to current alcohol consumption in east and west Germany
    Ellen Nolte
    European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, WC1E 7HT, London, UK
    Soc Sci Med 56:1385-95
    There is emerging awareness of alcohol as a cause of the persisting health divide between east and west Germany. This study quantifies the burden of alcohol attributable mortality in the two parts of Germany in the 1990s, taking account ..
  8. [Development of tuberculosis in Germany--a comparison between former West and East Germany]
    R Ferlinz
    Deutsches Zentralkomitee zur Bekämpfung der Tuberkulose, Mainz
    Pneumologie 48:160-3
    ..A comparison of the development of infant tuberculosis does not disclose any influence exercised by BCT vaccination on the epidemiology...
  9. Self-esteem, academic self-concept, and achievement: how the learning environment moderates the dynamics of self-concept
    Ulrich Trautwein
    Center for Educational Research, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    J Pers Soc Psychol 90:334-49
    ..was examined using a three-wave cross-lagged panel design with a large sample of 7th graders from East and West Germany, a total of 5,648 students who were tested shortly after German reunification...
  10. [East-West educational dialogue in nursing: "Decisive are the heads" (interview by Katrin Balzer)]
    Ursula Oelssner
    Pflege Z 56:806-9
  11. Religious individualization or secularization? Testing hypotheses of religious change--the case of Eastern and Western Germany
    Detlef Pollack
    European University Viadrina
    Br J Sociol 58:603-32
    ..Religious individualization is only a component of the predominant secularization process...
  12. [Validation and standardization of the "Questionnaire for Assessing Subjective Physical Well-Being" by Kolip and Schmidt in a representative German sample]
    Cornelia Albani
    Universitätsklinikum Leipzig, Klinik für Psychotherapie und Psychosomatische Medizin
    Psychother Psychosom Med Psychol 56:172-81
    ....
  13. Epidemiology and management of obesity in Germany
    H F Erbersdobler
    Institut für Humanernährung und Lebensmittelkunde, Düsternbrooker Weg 17, D 24105 Kiel
    Int J Vitam Nutr Res 76:257-9
    ..The governmental authorities support a lot of activities about healthy eating and physical activity partially together with groups of industry...
  14. Commentary: When East meets West--comments on 'Back pain as a communicable disease'
    Stephan Reichenbach
    Clinical Epidemiology Research and Training Unit, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
    Int J Epidemiol 37:74-6
  15. Weight gain in two adult cohorts in East and West Germany reunification
    K Wimmer
    GSF - National Research Centre for Environment and Health, Institute of Epidemiology, Neuherberg, Germany
    Cent Eur J Public Health 11:202-8
    ..These results might reflect a convergence of initially higher prevalences of overweight and obesity in the East with initially lower prevalences in the West...
  16. Adolescents' transitions to behavioral autonomy after German unification
    Claudia M Haase
    Department of Developmental Psychology and Center for Applied Developmental Science, University of Jena, Am Steiger 3 1, D 07743 Jena, Germany
    J Adolesc 31:337-53
    ..Our findings illustrate the plasticity of autonomy transitions under conditions of social change...
  17. "When looking back on my past life I regret...": retrospective regret in the second half of life
    Erika Timmer
    Department of Social Gerontology, Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Death Stud 29:625-44
    ..Differences in the kind of attribution and in the centrality of themes are discussed in terms of lifespan theory, death preparation, and cultural differences...
  18. Oral health of representative samples of Germans examined in 1989 and 1992
    W Micheelis
    Institut der Deutschen Zahnarzte (Institute of German Dentists, IDZ, Cologne, Germany
    Community Dent Oral Epidemiol 24:62-7
    ..Finally, the authors recommend the inclusion of qualitative research techniques when studying the differential causation of the inverse correlation between oral morbidity and social status...
  19. Allergic sensitization and disease in mother-child pairs from Germany: role of early childhood environment
    C Cramer
    Institut fur umweltmedizinische Forschung IUF, Heinrich Heine Universitat Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany
    Int Arch Allergy Immunol 143:282-9
    ..and it can be hypothesized that the allergic phenotypes in mothers and their children are less similar than in West Germany. This was investigated in our study done in mothers and their 6-year-old children from East and West Germany in ..
  20. Temporal trends in the incidence rate of childhood cancer in Germany 1987-2004
    Claudia Spix
    German Childhood Cancer Registry, Institute of Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany
    Int J Cancer 122:1859-67
    ..Neuroblastoma yielded a period effect in western Germany due to screening. With the exception of germ cell tumors, further observations for solid tumor entities are in agreement with those reported for Europe...
  21. [The changing role of intraoperative mammary frozen sections in breast cancer: comparison of data from East and West Germany before and after reunification]
    S Gunia
    Pathologisches Institut, Carl Thiem Klinikum, Thiemstrasse 111, 03048, Cottbus, Germany
    Pathologe 27:346-9
    ..intraoperative frozen sections obtained from representatively selected departments of pathology from East and West Germany before and after reunification were analysed comparatively...
  22. Bad data do not make good studies
    Dirk Dressler
    Cerebrovasc Dis 18:254; author reply 254-5
  23. Twenty years of the German Environmental Survey (GerES): human biomonitoring--temporal and spatial (West Germany/East Germany) differences in population exposure
    C Schulz
    Federal Environment Agency, Berlin
    Int J Hyg Environ Health 210:271-97
    ..The first survey for adults (GerES I) was carried out in 1985/1986 (West Germany) followed by GerES IIa in 1990/1991 (West Germany) and GerES IIb in 1991/1992 (East Germany)...
  24. Post-diagnostic abortion in Germany: reproduction gone awry, again?
    Susan L Erikson
    University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Anthropology, Campus Box 233, Boulder, CO 80466, USA
    Soc Sci Med 56:1987-2001
    ..Data collected at two German hospitals-one in former East Germany, one in former West Germany-illuminate rates of PDT use and provide data with which to discuss the specter of post-diagnostic abortion in ..
  25. Peer relations of adolescents from nuclear and separated families
    P Noack
    Department of Psychology, University of Jena, Jena, Germany
    J Adolesc 24:535-48
    ..Based on the second questionnaire assessment of a longitudinal study conducted in East and West Germany, reports from a total of 637 boys and girls on deviant and constructive peers in their social network as well ..
  26. Reexamining adaptation and the set point model of happiness: reactions to changes in marital status
    Richard E Lucas
    Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48824, USA
    J Pers Soc Psychol 84:527-39
    ..Thus, marital transitions can be associated with long-lasting changes in satisfaction, but these changes can be overlooked when only average trends are examined...
  27. Use of oral contraceptives in Germany: prevalence, determinants and use-associated health correlates. Results of National Health Surveys from 1984 to 1999
    Yong Du
    RKI 22, Pharmacoepidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Seestr 10, D 13353 Berlin, Germany
    Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol 134:57-66
    ..CONCLUSIONS: OC use seems to be generally safe. Whether the better health profiles found in OC users are the results of OC use or effects of healthy users, or both, should be further studied...
  28. Excessive infant crying: often not confined to the first 3 months of age
    H Wurmser
    Institute for Social Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University of Munich, Heiglhofstr. 63, D-81377, Munich, Germany
    Early Hum Dev 64:1-6
    ..0% (95% CI 17.9-24.1) and persisted for longer in 39.6% (95% CI 31.5-47.7) of these. Professionals consulting parents on crying problems should take into account its possible persistence for longer periods of time...
  29. [Suicidal methods--a comparison between East and West Germany. Epidemiological, forensic and sociomedical aspects]
    G Wiesner
    Robert Koch Institut, Berlin
    Bundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschutz 47:1095-106
    ..The ways in which suicide is committed are becoming increasingly alike, but in the East it is apparent that people adhere more to "traditional" means of suicide...
  30. Duration of breastfeeding and associated factors in Western and Eastern Germany
    M Dulon
    Department of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, School of Public Health, University of Bielefeld, Germany
    Acta Paediatr 90:931-5
    ..Moreover, mothers from both the Western and Eastern sectors mentioned different reasons for giving up breastfeeding. CONCLUSION: More breastfeeding promotion is necessary for women from the former GDR...
  31. T cell reactivity in neonates from an East and a West German city--results of the LISA study
    I Lehmann
    Department of Human Exposure Research and Epidemiology, UFZ-Center for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle Ltd, Leipzig, Germany
    Allergy 57:129-36
    ..cytokine production of cord blood T cells was compared between neonates from Leipzig (East Germany) and Munich (West Germany). The aim of this study was to analyse regional differences and influencing factors of the immune status...
  32. [Secular trends of demographic parameters]
    Uwe Jaeger
    Institut für Humangenetik und Anthropologie der Friedrich Schiller-Universität, Jena
    Anthropol Anz 62:347-62
    ..In the past 150 years we found a decrease in fertility rates in Germany. The registered demographic parameters show temporal and regional variations. These differences, especially between East Germany and West Germany, are emphasized.
  33. [Schizophrenia and religiousness--a comparative study at the time of the two German states]
    Michael Pfaff
    Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie der Ruhr Universität Bochum, LWL Klinik Bochum
    Psychiatr Prax 35:240-6
    ..0046). CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence of religious delusions in schizophrenia is, above all, associated with cultural factors. Religious delusions are therefore secondary phenomena in schizophrenia, and not inherent to the illness process...
  34. Cost comparison analysis: pentaerythrithyl tetranitrate (PETN) and isosorbide dinitrate (ISDN) prescribed to diabetic patients in primary care practices in Germany
    A Icks
    Institute of Biometrics and Epidemiology, German Diabetes Center, Leibniz Center at Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
    Int J Clin Pharmacol Ther 45:516-23
    ..The prescription patterns in Eastern and Western Germany and the patient characteristics of those receiving PETN and ISDN differed, indicating differences in patients selection and prescribing by physicians in the two regions...
  35. Seroprevalence of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) and type 2 (HSV-2) in former East and West Germany, 1997-1998
    W Hellenbrand
    Department of Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Seestrasse 10, 35133 Berlin, Germany
    Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 24:131-5
    ..Differences in HSV-2 seroprevalence between FEG and FWG suggest differences in sexual behaviour that warrant further investigation...
  36. Incidence of skin lymphoma in Germany
    Andreas Stang
    Institute of Medical Epidemiology, Biometry and Informatics, Medical Faculty, Martin Luther University of Halle Wittenberg, Germany
    Ann Epidemiol 16:214-22
    ..Several methodological issues hamper the analysis of population-based incidence data of skin lymphoma...
  37. T(H)1/T(H)2 immune response profiles differ between atopic children in eastern and western Germany
    Harald Renz
    Clinical Chemistry and Molecular Diagnostics, University Hospital Marburg, Germany
    J Allergy Clin Immunol 109:338-42
    ..CONCLUSIONS: This is the first epidemiologic survey to demonstrate regional differences in the T(H)1/T(H)2 response pattern and their relation to atopic disease between regions...
  38. Prevention of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) due to an active health monitoring system 20 years prior to the public "Back to Sleep" campaigns
    M Vennemann
    Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Münster, Germany
    Arch Dis Child 91:324-6
    BACKGROUND: Before reunification, the post-neonatal mortality rate was lower in East Germany than in West Germany. Moreover, the incidence of SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) was much lower in the East...
  39. Cross-sectional study on influenza vaccination, Germany, 1999-2000
    Sybille Rehmet
    Robert Koch Institut, Berlin, Germany
    Emerg Infect Dis 8:1442-7
    ..of 1,190 survey participants reported having been vaccinated (adjusted 18%) with 16% (adjusted 15%) in former West Germany versus 35% (adjusted 32%) in former East Germany...
  40. Sex ratios in the two Germanies: a test of the economic stress hypothesis
    Ralph A Catalano
    University of California at Berkeley, School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
    Hum Reprod 18:1972-5
    ..Here, a test is offered based on a comparison of the sex ratio in East and West Germany for the years 1946 to 1999...
  41. [The psychopathology of Karl Jaspers: then and now]
    M W Hengeveld
    Universitair Medisch Centrum, Rotterdam
    Tijdschr Psychiatr 48:835-42
    ..Jaspers' view on this subject is particularly important in our days of DSM-criteria, neuro-imaging and molecular biology...
  42. Legal medicine in the Federal Republic of Germany and after reunification
    F Fischer
    Institute of Forensic Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Frauenlobstr. 7a, 80337 München, Germany
    Forensic Sci Int 144:137-41
  43. The medical profession in Germany: past trends, current state and future prospects
    Thomas Kopetsch
    Cah Sociol Demogr Med 44:43-70
    ..If this does not happen, there will be bottlenecks in the supply of medical care on a broad front in Germany. In the end, the provision of medical care for the population as a whole could be jeopardised...
  44. Declining mortality rates for nonmelanoma skin cancers in West Germany, 1968-99
    A Stang
    Epidemiology Unit Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, University Hospital of Essen, Hufelandstr 55, 45122 Essen, Germany
    Br J Dermatol 150:517-22
    ..OBJECTIVES: To examine time trends in NMSC mortality over a 32-year period for the territory of West Germany which included a population of about 66 million people...
  45. Reflections: a historical vignette
    Jan M Gybels
    Department Neurosciences and Psychiatry, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
    Neurosurgery 56:614-20; discussion 614-20
    ....
  46. The schizophrenic career of a "monster drug"
    William A Silverman
    Pediatrics 110:404-6
  47. Vaccine innovation and adoption: polio vaccines in the UK, the Netherlands and West Germany, 1955-1965
    Ulrike Lindner
    Clare Hall, Herschel Road, Cambridge CB3 9AL
    Med Hist 50:425-46
  48. Genetic code, text, and scripture: metaphors and narration in German molecular biology
    Christina Brandt
    Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
    Sci Context 18:629-48
  49. The role of personality, parents and peers in adolescents career exploration
    Baerbel Kracke
    University of Jena, Germany
    J Adolesc 25:19-30
    ..The findings suggest that it would be fruitful to consider more thoroughly the role of peers in future research on adolescents' career development...
  50. [Medicine on the other side of medicine: the experiment of the Socialist Patients' Collective in Heidelberg, 1969-71]
    Florian Mildenberger
    Z Wurttemb Landesgesch 61:461-8
  51. [On rabbits and snakes: psychiatry and the public in the early years of the Federal Republic of Germany]
    Thorsten Noack
    Med Ges Gesch 26:311-40
    ..Besides psychiatrists refused the criticism, so that the "crisis of psychiatry" did not induce any structural changes...
  52. [Professional medical history in the FRG in search for a lobby: looking back at discussions of the 1970s]
    Johanna Bleker
    Institut für Geschichte der Medizin, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin
    Medizinhist J 42:356-68
    ....
  53. ["Keine Angst vor Psychiatern." Psychiatry, critics of psychiatry and the public in the Federal Republic of Germany 1960-1980]
    Cornelia Brink
    Med Ges Gesch 26:341-60
    ..e. Frank Fischers's book "Irrenhäuser. Kranke klagen an" (1969) and the "Frankfurter Psychiatriestreit 1976"...
  54. [American influences on the development of anaesthesiology in the Federal Republic of Germany between 1949 and 1960]
    H Petermann
    Institut für Ethik, Geschichte und Theorie der Medizin, Universitätsklinikum der Universität Münster
    Anasthesiol Intensivmed Notfallmed Schmerzther 40:133-41
    ..This was the starting point for the consolidation of anaesthesia as a special discipline of medicine in Germany in the 1960s...
  55. Albrecht Fleckenstein: father of calcium antagonism
    Louis J Acierno
    University of Central Florida, College of Health and Public Affairs, Orlando, Florida 32816-2200, USA
    Clin Cardiol 27:710-1
  56. Early history of home hemodialysis in the Federal Republic of Germany
    Stanley Shaldon
    FRCP(London, Le Michelangelo, Monaco
    ASAIO J 50:291-3
    ..How KfH was created is curiously omitted from its official web site, and the purpose of this article is to describe how this organization was started in 1969...
  57. [The making of the sexual and erotic body in the West German youth magazine BRAVO, 1960s-70s]
    Lutz Sauerteig
    Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease, Wolfson Research Institute, Durham University, Stockton on Tees TS17 6BH, United Kingdom
    Medizinhist J 42:142-79
    ..The focus is on BRAVO's contribution to the shaping of the sexual and erotic knowledge of the young in West Germany since the mid-1960s...
  58. [The success of hygiene in the last 40 years]
    E Thofern
    Hygiene Institut, Universität Bonn
    Zentralbl Bakteriol Mikrobiol Hyg B 187:271-94
    ..Increasing prosperity was accompanied by new problems of hygiene. Infectious diseases almost eradicated in West Germany, were imported by air travellers...
  59. [Development of German child and adolescent psychiatry and the Marburg clinic]
    Helmut Remschmidt
    Klinik für Kinder und Jugendpsychiatrie und psychotherapie der Philipps Universität Marburg
    Z Kinder Jugendpsychiatr Psychother 37:379-90; quiz 390-1
    ..According to the Zeitgeist, six chronologically overlapping phases in West Germany can be distinguished: (1) Search for orientation and reorganization, (2) decade of consolidation and ..
  60. [Relations of German anesthesiology to east European societies of anesthesiology]
    G Benad
    Anaesthesiol Reanim 28:156-63
    ..anaesthetists from East European countries were also invited as guests by anaesthesia departments of East and West Germany. Most of the East European anaesthetists preferred West German departments because they were better equipped ..
  61. [Radiotherapy of benign diseases: a pattern of care study in Germany]
    M H Seegenschmiedt
    Klinik für Radioonkologie, Strahlentherapie und Nuklearmedizin, Alfried Krupp Krankenhaus Essen
    Strahlenther Onkol 175:541-7
    ..A total of 134 (88%) institutions returned all requested data: 22 in East and 112 in West Germany; 30 in university and 104 in community/private hospitals...
  62. [Incidence of resistance and risk factors for resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. A retrospective study of 1,055 patients of a specialty hospital 1984 to 1993]
    J Borchardt
    Krankenhaus Grosshansdorf, Zentrum für Pneumologie und Thoraxchirurgie
    Pneumologie 50:28-35
    ..no data on the time course of drug-resistant tuberculosis and on risk factors for drug resistance in former West Germany. We reviewed the medical records of all patients with positive cultures for Mycobacterium tuberculosis from ..
  63. A statistical model to compare road mortality in OECD countries
    Y Page
    Centre Européen d Etudes de Sécurité et d Analyse des Risques CEESAR, Nanterre, France
    Accid Anal Prev 33:371-85
    ..The highest decreases were observed in ex-West Germany (- 48%), Switzerland (- 44%), Australia (- 40%), and UK (- 39%)...
  64. Subtype-specific incidence of testicular cancer in Germany: a pooled analysis of nine population-based cancer registries
    A Stang
    Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Medical Epidemiology, Biometry and Informatics, Medical Faculty, Martin Luther University of Halle Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
    Int J Androl 32:306-16
    ..Majority of these cancers were yolk sac tumours (0.1 per 100,000). In East and West Germany, rates of embryonal carcinoma in the early periods were considerably lower than the rates of malignant teratoma...
  65. Respiratory health and individual estimated exposure to traffic-related air pollutants in a cohort of young children
    V Morgenstern
    GSF National Research Center for Environment and Health, Institute of Epidemiology, Neuherberg, Germany
    Occup Environ Med 64:8-16
    ..GINI) and Influence of Life-style factors on the development of the Immune System and Allergies in East and West Germany (LISA)) in the Munich metropolitan area...
  66. Preschool children's health and its association with parental education and individual living conditions in East and West Germany
    Xianming du Prel
    Institut für Umweltmedizinische Forschung IUF an der Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
    BMC Public Health 6:312
    ..METHODS: All boys and girls entering elementary school and living in predefined areas of East and West Germany were invited to participate in a series of cross-sectional surveys conducted between 1991 and 2000...
  67. A world from brave to new: Talcott Parsons and the war effort at Harvard University
    U Gerhardt
    University of Heidelburg, Germany
    J Hist Behav Sci 35:257-89
    ..Targets envisaged for the 1950s, then, were community and citizenship in the newly democratic societies such as (West) Germany, the land that defeated Nazism...
  68. Revised and new reference values for some persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in blood for human biomonitoring in environmental medicine
    Michael Wilhelm
    Department of Hygiene, Social and Environmental Medicine, Ruhr University Bochum, Universitätsstr 150, D 44801 Bochum, Germany
    Int J Hyg Environ Health 206:223-9
    ..Survey 1998 (adults aged 18-69 years) and from a survey performed with children (age 9-11 years) in south-west Germany 1998/99. The levels of organochlorine compounds in blood of adults increased with increasing age...
  69. The contribution of medical care to changing life expectancy in Germany and Poland
    Ellen Nolte
    European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
    Soc Sci Med 55:1905-21
    ..medical care on changes in mortality in east Germany and Poland before and after the political transition, with west Germany included for comparison...
  70. [Work-site health promotion in Germany. Results of the IAB--establishment panel 2002 and 2004]
    A Hollederer
    Landesinstitut für den Offentlichen Gesundheitsdienst NRW lögd, Bielefeld, Germany
    Gesundheitswesen 69:63-76
    ..North Rhine-Westphalia was precisely average. In East Germany, almost one-fourth and in West Germany just under one-fifth of all companies surveyed carry out health-promoting measures...
  71. Werner Ernst Reichardt Ph.D: founder of modern computational visual neurophysiology and anti-Nazi resistance fighter
    J T Flynn
    The Department of Ophthalmology, Harkness Eye Institute, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York 10032, USA
    Doc Ophthalmol 99:225-36
    ..Planck Institut and later became Director of the Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik in Tübingen, West Germany. Reichardt was one of the founders of the quantitative study of visually controlled orientation in animals...
  72. Thalidomide: a re-look
    J K Grover
    Department of Pharmacology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi 110029, India
    Natl Med J India 13:132-41
    Thalidomide was synthesized in 1954 in erstwhile West Germany and marketed as a sedative in over 46 countries until the early 1960s. Owing to serious teratogenic effects, the drug was withdrawn from the market in 1961...
  73. Allergy, total IgE and eosinophils in East and West -- serious effects of different degrees of helminthiasis and smoking
    Michael Schneider
    Works Medical Service, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma KG, Postfach 200, D 55216 Ingelheim, Germany
    Eur J Med Res 7:63-71
    Allergies are rarer in East Germany than in West Germany, although elevated IgE-levels and blood eosinophil counts can be found in the East. The aim of this study is to control the known results in Slowakia...
  74. Isolated hepatocytes of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) as a tool to discriminate between differently contaminated small river systems
    M Strmac
    Aquatic Toxicology and Ecology Group, Department of Zoology, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 230, D-69120, Heidelberg, Germany
    Toxicol In Vitro 14:361-77
    ..exposed to native waters and acetone sediment extracts of Krähenbach and Körsch, two small rivers in south-west Germany with different levels of chemical contamination, and were investigated by means of electron microscopic and ..
  75. 12. Chernobyl's radioactive contamination of food and people
    Alexey V Nesterenko
    Institute of Radiation Safety Belrad, 2 nd Marusinsky St 27, Minsk 220053, Belarus
    Ann N Y Acad Sci 1181:289-302
    ..products with measurable amounts of Chernobyl radioactive contamination, mostly from Turkey, Italy, Austria, West Germany, Greece, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Sweden, and Denmark...
  76. Sexually transmitted diseases in Germany
    D Petzoldt
    Department of Dermatology and Venereology, University of Heidelberg, Germany
    Int J STD AIDS 13:246-53
    In the former West Germany, in specific venereal diseases legislation passed in 1953, only syphilis, gonorrhoea, ulcus molle, and lymphogranuloma venereum were defined as venereal diseases and subject to mandatory notification...
  77. Structure and mineralisation density of antler and pedicle bone in red deer (Cervus elaphus L.) exposed to different levels of environmental fluoride: a quantitative backscattered electron imaging study
    U Kierdorf
    Institute of General and Systematic Zoology, Justus Liebig University of Giessen, Germany
    J Anat 196:71-83
    ..001) than those of controls from uncontaminated regions in West Germany (antlers: 206 +/- 41, pedicles: 322 +/- 52 mg F-/kg ash). Mean (56.5 +/- 4.5%) and maximum (84.9 +/- 2...
  78. German Environmental Survey 1998 (GerES III): environmental pollutants in blood of the German population
    Kerstin Becker
    Federal Environmental Agency, P O Box 330022, D 14191 Berlin, Germany
    Int J Hyg Environ Health 205:297-308
    ..alpha-HCH and gamma-HCH could be detected in 1.7% and 5.2% of the samples only. beta-HCH was quantified in 34% of the samples with a 95th percentile of 0.5 microgram/l...
  79. Correlations between mutagenic activity of organic extracts of airborne particulate matter, NOx and sulphur dioxide in southern Germany: results of a two-year study
    Lothar Erdinger
    Institute for Hygiene, Department for Hygiene and Med Microbiology, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 324, D 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
    Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 12:10-20
    ..METHODS: Specimens were collected over a period of two years at 8 sampling sites in south-west Germany. Simultaneously, concentrations of NO, NO2, and SO2 were measured on-line within the framework of the official ..
  80. [Psychiatric disorders caused by global social change. Traumatization among the inhabitants of the former GDR]
    J Frommer
    Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie an der Klinik für Psychiatrie, Medizin der Otto von Guericke Universität Magdeburg, Germany
    Fortschr Neurol Psychiatr 70:418-28
    More than a decennium after the reunion of East and West Germany, the psychological sequelae of traumatic experiences of East Germans are still evident...
  81. Phytophthora gallica sp. nov., a new species from rhizosphere soil of declining oak and reed stands in France and Germany
    Thomas Jung
    Phytophthora Research and Consultancy, Thomastrasse 75, D 83098 Brannenburg, Germany
    Mycol Res 112:1195-205
    ..declining oak in Northeast France, and from the rhizosphere of Phragmites australis at Lake Constance in south-west Germany in 1998 and 2004, respectively...
  82. Trends in prevalence of atopic diseases and allergic sensitization in children in Eastern Germany
    J Heinrich
    GSF National Research Centre for Environment and Health Institute of Epidemiology, Neuherberg, Germany
    Eur Respir J 19:1040-6
    ..illnesses and allergies between populations living in the former East Germany and those living in the former West Germany have been reported...
  83. [Life expectancy, potential years of life lost (PYLL), and avoidable mortality in an East/West comparison]
    G Wiesner
    Robert Koch Institut, Berlin
    Bundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschutz 47:266-78
    The dynamics of convergence between East and West Germany in the life-prolonging process continued undiminished from 1990 until 2001...
  84. Mortality in blind subjects. A population-based study on social security files from Baden-Württemberg
    H G Krumpaszky
    Department of Medical Information Processing, University of T ubingen
    Ophthalmologica 213:48-53
    ..Standardised mortality ratios (SMRs) on the basis of life tables of former West Germany were calculated using maximum likelihood methods taking into account censoring...
  85. [Do daily newspapers of former West and East Germany cover crime in a different way?]
    Karlhans Liebl
    Hochschule der Sächsischen Polizei FH, Rothenburg Oberlausitz
    Arch Kriminol 220:85-102
    ..investigated in the presented paper is whether crime is discussed differently in the media of former East and West Germany, how it is weighted and whether the real crime situation provides an explanation for any differences in press ..
  86. [Epidemiology of diabetes mellitus: prevalence, incidence, pathogenesis, and prognosis]
    Hans Uwe Janka
    Klinikum für Innere Medizin, Zentralkrankenhaus Bremen Nord
    Z Arztl Fortbild Qualitatssich 96:159-65
    ..Republic (East Germany) together with representative samples obtained from the federal states that comprised West Germany indicate a diabetes prevalence of about 5% in the adult population of Germany...
  87. Will German patients accept their family physician as a gatekeeper?
    W Himmel
    Department of Family Medicine, University of Göttingen, Germany
    J Gen Intern Med 15:496-502
    ..SETTING: Four health districts in Thuringia (formerly East Germany) and Lower Saxony (formerly West Germany). PARTICIPANTS: Out of a random sample of 644 adults in the 4 districts, 415 persons (64...
  88. Maternal mortality in the former east Germany before and after reunification: changes in risk by marital status
    O Razum
    Department of Tropical Hygiene, Im Neuenheimer Feld 324, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
    BMJ 319:1104-5
    ..This can be attributed to the adoption of a lenient reporting system from West Germany. Unmarried status, on the other hand, became a significant risk factor for maternal mortality after ..
  89. The carnage wrought by major economic change: ecological study of traffic related mortality and the reunification of Germany
    F K Winston
    Children s Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania, Suite 706, Abramson Research Center, Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    BMJ 318:1647-50
    ..DESIGN: Ecological time series study of East Germany in comparison with the former Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) before and after reunification in 1990. SETTING: East and West Germany from 1985 to 1996...
  90. [Individual risk factors, health behaviour and mortality developments in Germany from 1984 to 1998]
    U Helmert
    Zentrum für Sozialpolitik, Universität Bremen, und Zentrum für Public Health, Universität Bremen
    Gesundheitswesen 65:542-7
    ..Data are a mortality follow-up conducted by the Federal Institute for Population Research during 1984 - 1998 in West Germany and 1991-1998 in East Germany...
  91. [Social determinants of smoking behavior in Germany: results of a 1995 micro-census]
    U Helmert
    Abteilung Gesundheitspolitik, Arbeits und Sozialmedizin, Zentrum für Sozialpolitik, Universität Bremen
    Soz Praventivmed 46:172-81
    ..status, unemployment, socio-economic situation and regional-specific variables (size of community, East vs West Germany). RESULTS: All together, 30.5% of the males and 18.0% of the females were current smokers...