Alf Trojan
Alf Trojan (born August 4, 1944 in Rendsburg ) is a medical sociologist and former director of the Institute for Medical Sociology at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf at the University of Hamburg .
Life
Trojan was born in Rendsburg in 1944. After studying human medicine and sociology (qualifications as Dr. med. And Dr. phil.), He began his professional career in 1974 as a member of the medical sociology tutor group at the University of Hamburg. From 1975 to 1976 he completed a Master of Science degree in London (degree M. Sc.). He then became a research assistant in the interdisciplinary facility for medical sociology. In 1984 he was appointed professor and finally in 1985 director of the Institute for Medical Sociology (IMS), Dept. II "Sociology in Medicine". In 2010 he was adopted into retirement. Since 2009 freelance scientific activities in the areas of self-help friendliness and patient orientation in health care as well as health promotion, - especially in the context of the editorial management of the "Guiding Concepts for Health Promotion and Prevention" of the Federal Center for Health Education.
Focus of work
- Social networks and self-help
- Health promoting urban policy
- Citizen participation
- Local health and social policy
- Health Promotion and Sustainability
Honors
- 2007: Health Promotion Medal from the University of Science Szeged in Hungary .
- 2009: Solomon-Neumann Medal of the German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention .
Publications (selection)
- "Knowledge is power." Independent through self-help in groups. Fischer alternative, Frankfurt / M. (1986).
- with Heiner Legewie. "Sustainable Health and Development." Guiding principles, politics and practice of the (2001).
Web links
- Literature by and about Alf Trojan in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ The medical sociology in Hamburg was filled in 1974 with the establishment of a professorship (Heidrun Kaupen-Haas), a lecturer (social psychiatrist Klaus Dörner) and two assistant positions (Alf Trojan and Heiko Waller) (see Ruckstuhl, Brigitte : Health Promotion: Development History of a New Public Health perspective, Weinheim / Munich: Juventa, 2011, p. 120).
- ↑ Döhner, Hanneli / Kaupen-Haas, Heidrun / Knesebeck, Olaf von dem : Alf Trojan: 35 years of medical sociology in Hamburg, in: Döhner, Hanneli / Kaupen-Haas, Heidrun / Knesebeck, Olaf von dem (eds.) : Medizinsoziologie in Science and practice: Festschrift for Alf Trojan, Münster: Lit, 2009, p. 11 (here p. 11).
- ↑ http://www.selbsthilfefreundlichkeit.de
- ↑ https://www.leitbegriffe.bzga.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Trojan, Alf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German medical sociologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th August 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rendsburg |