Building Bridges between Individual and Population Based Prevention

Institute and Outpatient Clinics of Occupational and Social Medicine pursue the main goals to unearth effective ways for prevention of diseases and to make a contribution to maintenance and promotion of health in population.

Essential Competences

Members of the research staff of Institute and Outpatient Clinics of Occupational and Social Medicine cover competences in the fields of Occupational Medicine, Social Medicine, Public Health, Psychophysiology, Epidemiology and Evidence Based Medicine.

The Institute is situated in Dresden, Löscherstraße 18

Research for a Better Prevention

The research of the institute includes prevention of musculo-skeletal disorders and cancer as well as prevention of mental disorders and circulatory diseases. Prevention in the occupational context has to be assigned a special importance: On the one hand each profession is associated with different risks as well as resources for individual health and wellbeing; on the other hand occupational settings offer important capacities for health promotion and disease prevention. This is of special interest for groups of population which are usually difficult to reach by prevention or medical care.

Teaching in the Fields of Medicine and Public Health

Academic education contains lectures, practical courses and tutorials for students of medicine in the subjects Occupational, Social, Environmental and Evidence Based Medicine. Furthermore, research studies in Gesundheitswissenschaften/Public Health lead to Magister/Magistra of Public Health (M.P.H.).

Since March 15, 2010 Prof. Dr. med. Andreas Seidler, M.P.H.  has been director of Institute and Outpatient Clinics of Occupational and Social Medicine.

Which are the Aims of the New Director?

"I want to investigate the link between individual prevention of diseases and population based health in a careful as well as successful scientific manner. Effective possibilities of health promotion and disease prevention should be detected in this way. The initial position is a very good one: The years before Professor Dr. Klaus Scheuch developed the Institute on a widespread scientific fundament with integration into academic, regional as well as nationwide structures. Working with the Institute of Occupational and Social Medicine I want to make my contribution for establishing prevention of circulatory and musculo-skeletal diseases in the professional context with special view to evidence based methods. There should be considered aspects of primary, secondary and tertiary prevention as well as implications of Social Medicine and health service."