The present status of food-borne parasitic zoonoses in West Germany is characterized by a relatively high frequency of toxoplasmosis, sarcocystosis and Taenia saginata infections. From empirical data it can be estimated that 4% of the German population become infected per year by Toxoplasma gondii as well as by Sarcocystis species (S. hominis, S. suihominis). The number of T. saginata infected ...

In recent months there has been growing discussion in the United States on the introduction of some form of national healt,h insurance under government sponsorship. Some of the proposals provide for the continued existence of private health insurance and even for considerable expansion within the context of a government-operated scheme. It is interesting to note in this connection that in both ...

The statistics of the German social security system were used to analyse the epidemiology of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in Germany and to assess its impact on disability. Patients granted disability pension for IBD were compared with a control group of patients disabled from other causes. Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis led to disability in significantly younger patients than other...

The concept of rules for monetary policy has been more and more critized in recent years. The Deutsche Bundesbank is also urged to give up monetary targeting. The idea is that the economic performance could be improved if monetary policy became more pragmatic and was more concerned about slow growth and high unemployment. In reality, however, monetary policy in the past decades has been highly ...

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After losing the importance it had held around 1900 both as a colonial power and in the field of tropical medicine, Germany searched for a new place in international health care during decolonisation. Under the aegis of early government 'development aid', which started in 1956, medical academics from West German universities became involved in several Asian, African and South American countries...

Este artículo reseña: Ben Mercer. Students Revolt in 1968. France, Italy and West Germany. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 2020, 268 pp.

Using trend analysis, the author sought a possible association between perinatal mortality rates in West Germany, 1955-1993, and the fallout from atmospheric nuclear weapons testing in the years 1952-1993. The regression model used a continuously falling trend and a superimposed extra term that reflects the average strontium content in pregnant women. Mortality rates show an upward deviation th...

I was born in 1942 in the small city of Halberstadt. My fa8 ther was a surgeon and owned a small private clinic, he ended 9 up in jail in 1943 when he said something critical about 10 the Nazi regime. In April 1945, Halberstadt was bombed 11 flat. My mother fled with me as a little child into the rocks 12 surrounding the city. In May 1945, the Nazi regime ended 13 and my father was released as ...