LUDOK - Air Pollution and Health Literature Database and Services 2024-2025

LUDOK is a Swiss competence center for the effects of outdoor air pollution on human health at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH). The documentation center has been financed by the FOEN since 1985. The documentation and processing of scientific studies by a small team of…

01.01.2024 - 31.12.2025
Long term service project
Federal Office for the Environment (BAFU)
Chronic Disease Epidemiology
Meltem Kutlar Joss
LUDOK - Lufthygienische Dokumentationsstelle 2022-2023

Since 1985, LUDOK - the Swiss Literature Database on Air Pollution and Health has been collecting and cataloguing the literature published worldwide on the subject of air pollution and health on behalf of the Federal Office for the Environment. The database contains more than 10'000 entries, which…

01.01.2022 - 31.12.2023
Long term service project
Bundesamt für Umwelt (BAFU)
Chronic Disease Epidemiology
Meltem Kutlar Joss
LUDOK - Lufthygienische Dokumentationsstelle 2018-2021

Die vom Bundesamt für Umwelt (BAFU) finanzierte Dokumentationsstelle LUDOK am Schweizerischen Tropen und Public Health Institut (Swiss TPH) liefert seit 30 Jahren evidenzbasierte Informationen zu den gesundheitlichen Auswirkungen der Luftverschmutzung auf den Menschen, wie dies für die Umsetzung des…

01.06.2018 - 31.12.2021
Long term service project, Research project
Federal Office for the Environment (BAFU)
Chronic Disease Epidemiology
Meltem Kutlar Joss