The Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Founded in 1962, the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) was the first new university founded in the Federal Republic of Germany after the end of World War II. Located in the Ruhr region, Europe's largest single economic zone, it is Germany's eighth largest university. Today, more than forty years after the RUB was established, more than half the population of what was once Europe's "coal pot", dominated by mining and steelworks, is employed in the service sector. The university is very much a part of this structural change. With close to 35,000 students, some 6700 employees and 433 professors, RUB is proud of its pioneering role in many fields.
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Bringing people together
Anyone seeking to reform the health system must first identify the causes underlying the shortages
of some services and the inefficient distribution of others. In order to study the scope,
structure, target groups, costs and benefits of health services, scientists and academics
from many different disciplines need to work together: for example medical researchers
studying curative aspects, sociologists and economists looking at economic forces, and
sports scientists and psychologists advising on prevention and chronic illness. With
its broad spectrum of disciplines, the
Ruhr-Universität Bochum offers an ideal structure
for research and consultation in the field of health. It is
here that the idea of Centrig,
a centre for interdisciplinary health research, was born.
