Literature Databases

As a public service the department of Epidemiology and Public Health provides the literature databases with reviews on air pollution and health – LUDOK and another database on the effects of electromagnetic fields on health – ELMAR . Both documentation services are maintained by assignment of the Federal Office for the Environment FOEN.

 

LUDOK

  • The effects of air pollution on human health
  • Epidemiology of unspecific respiratory tract diseases, asthma and breathing allergies
  • Methodological problems of epidemiology of the environment and the respiratory tract.

 

ELMAR

contains German summaries of mainly English language scientific studies that investigate the effects of electromagnetic fields on health.