[Contributions of experimental and clinical medicine to environmental medicine]

Contributions towards the system of risk assessment and risk management are the most important topical tasks to be solved by environmental medicine. This covers the whole range of hazard evaluation for chemicals, assessment of exposure (biomonitoring), systematic development of biological markers for effects and the detection of damages on the organism-, organ-, cellular and subcellular level, the epidemiology of environmentally related diseases, and the elaboration of computer-assisted models for the conception of risk assessment and risk management in terms of a better preventive efficiency in the field of environmental medicine.