24.7.-9.8.1991, Φ Int. Summer Programme for Applications of Epidemiology, incl. Environmental Health databases and information systems / Int. Sommerprogramm für Angewandte Epidemiologie, inkl. Datenbanken und Informationssysteme für umweltbezogenen Gesundheitsschutz

Centre for Health Sciences at the University of Bielefeld. Under the Auspices of the German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention and the World Health Organization / Zentrum für Gesundheitswissenschaften der Universität Bielefeld. Unter der Schirmherrschaft der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sozialmedizin und Prävention und der Weltgesundheitsorganisation.

Venue: IDIS, Westerfeldstr. 35-37, 4800 Bielefeld, and University of Bielefeld, Universitätsstraße, 4800 Bielefeld

Courses / Kurse:

• A Quality assurance and utilization review in hospitals (Banoub & Levin)
• B Environmental Health databases and information systems (Fehr & Kobusch), cf. below / s.u.
• C Health economics and epidemiology (Thompson & Wenzel)
• D Gesundheitsberichterstattung und gesundheitliche Versorgung in Deutschland (Ost und West) im internationalen Vergleich (Radoschewski & Stein)
• E Methods of health risk assessment (Stewart)
• F Sozialepidemiologie (Badura & Waltz)

Own contribution:

Course B Environmental Health databases and information systems (Fehr R & Kobusch A-B, assisted by / unter Mitarbeit von: H. Huhmann, V. Timmas), 24.-26.7.1991 [91-09]

Program elements: Lectures, demonstrations, exercises, discussions, evaluation.

Materials: Fehr R, Kobusch A-B, assisted by / unter Mitarbeit von Huhmann H, Timmas V:

• Lecture notes / Skriptum (98 pp.)
• Workbook / Arbeitsbuch (17 pp.)

30.9.-4.10.1990, New York, 118th APHA Meeting: Forging the Future: Health Objectives for the Year 2000

American Public Health Association (APHA), 118th Annual Meeting, New York City, NY. Venue: 7 hotels, i.e. Howard Johnson, Milford Plaza, NY Marriott Marquis, Ramada Inn, Sheraton Centre, Wellington.

Own contributions:

• R. Fehr: Environmental Health databases: Meeting the information needs of health departments in North Rhine-Westphalia. Abstract Book, p.82. Session 2012, Environmental Information Management and Communication. Marriot Marquis, Empire. Sponsor: Environment section, 2.10.1990, Program Book, p.86 [90-03]
• R. Fehr: Traffic-crash fatalities and public transportation: “The preventive approach that was forgotten.” Abstract Book, p.198. Session 3026, Injury Control Poster Session A. Sheraton Centre, Exhibit Hall. Sponsor: Injury Control and Emergency Health Services section, 3.10.1990, Program Book, p.136 [90-04].

Sideline observation: The program book features useful cardboard separator tabs (now near-extinct), labeled “Convention information”, “Program schedule”, and “Exhibits”.

12.-15.9.1990, Bielefeld, 26. Wissenschaftliche Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sozialmedizin und Prävention (DGSMP): Gesundheitsberichterstattung und Public Health

Wissenschaftliche Leiter: U. Laaser, F.W. Schwartz. Veranstalter: Universität Bielefeld und Medizinische Hochschule (MH) Hannover. Tagungsort am 12.9.1990: MH Hannover, 13.-15.9.1990: U Bielefeld. Abstracts: Forum Gesundheitswissenschaften, Supplementband S1 / 1990.

Own contribution / Eigene Beiträge:

• Sitzung “Umweltbezogene Gesundheitsberichterstattung” (Leitung: H.E. Wichmann, R. Fehr); darin u.a. folgender Beitrag:
• Fehr R, Kobusch A-B (1990): Aufbau eines Informationssystems für den umweltbezogenen Gesundheitsschutz in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Abstract V 031, Forum Gesundheitswissenschaften, Supplementband S1 / 1990, p.37 [90_05a]. Als Aufsatz publiziert in: Forum Gesundheitswissenschaften, Heft 2 / 1991, p.36-40 [90_05b].

12.-15.8.1990, Berkeley (CA), International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) 2nd Annual Meeting, incl. Poster “EH information – Review of databases”

Conference Booklet: Program, Abstracts, Attendee list. Acknowledgements: The ISEE wishes to thank the following organizations for assistance in making this conference possible, The California Department of Health Services, The United States Centers for Disease Control, The American Petroleum Institute, Chevron, Cancer Research Coordinating Committee of University of California, Berkeley.

Venue: University of California, Berkeley (CA)

Own contribution:

• (poster), 14 Aug 1990:

Fehr R, Kobusch A-B: Environmental Health Information – Review of databases for use in health departments in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Poster presentation in Session 6 – Ecological Studies [90-02]

5.-9.8.1990, Los Angeles, 12th Scientific Meeting, International Epidemiological Association (IEA)

Organizing Committee Chair: Roger Detels. Venue: UCLA campus.

Own contribution:

R. Fehr: Traffic-related injury mortality in States and counties of the USA, 1968-1984. Abstract #429 (Abstract book, p.100); Poster presentation in Ackerman Union Ballroom, Session 11, order 27, 6.8.1990, 2pm [90-01]