AmberMed

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AmberMed is a social medical facility in Vienna that offers medical care for people without health insurance. The facility has existed in various forms since 2004. AmberMed is currently a cooperation between the Austrian Red Cross and the Diakonie refugee service. This cooperation between the two organizations has existed since 2010. The rough division of tasks consists in the fact that the Austrian Red Cross (ÖRK) provides the infrastructure - AmberMed is housed in the disaster relief center of the WCC and the operational business is managed by the health and psychotherapy department of the Diakonie refugee service becomes.

history

In early 2000, some medical professionals recognized the need to provide medical care to uninsured people. As a result, the Amber project was started on January 12, 2004 by the Diakonie refugee service and initially served the medical care of homeless people and asylum seekers without insurance cover. Over time, more and more uninsured migrants and Austrians came to receive medical support. Since August 2006 the facility has been called AmberMed and there is a cooperation between Diakonie refugee service and the Austrian Red Cross .

Financial

Despite the numerous voluntary employees, the generous donations of medication and the free provision of medical aids such as glasses, walking aids and orthopedic insoles, AmberMed is dependent on financial support. A part is financed by public funds ( WGKK , FSW, BMGF ), around 50% have to be covered by private donations. Private donors, company donations and sponsors secure the existence.

Side projects

Meduna and Better Start: Women's health groups for everything related to pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and nutrition. In addition, a midwife comes to the gynecologist's ordinations on a regular basis.

Jugend & Amber: a range of outreach workshops for and with young asylum seekers on the topics of mental health, identity development and conflict-free communication. The workshops are mainly led by psychotherapists.

AmberMed is an international cooperation partner of Medicine Du Monde and a member of PICUM .

Awards

• 2017 - MigAward
• 2011 - Bank Austria Promotion Prize "Best Start 2011"

Web links

• official website: www.amber-med.at
• AmberMed: A Volunteer Offer, Courier May 29, 2014
• Through the cracks of the social network like Spendeninfo.at

literature

• Uwe Mauch: The poor of Vienna, Vienna 2016, ÖGB-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-99046-158-7 .
• Ursula Trummer, Sonja Novak-Zezula, Ina Wilczewska: Roma & Health. Health, health knowledge and access to health care. C-HM, Vienna 2015.
• Ursula Trummer, Sonja Novak-Zezula; Nora Haag (2015): Health Care in No Man's Land, 1240 Vienna.
• Ursula Trummer, Sonja Novak-Zezula, Kai Hong Phua, Sian Griffiths, Roger Chung & Huso Yi (2014): Migrants and Healthcare. Social and Economic Approaches. ASEF Public Health Network
• Ursula Trummer (2013): Exclusion and Health of Undocumented Migrants . In: Soziales_kapital scientific journal of Austrian technical college courses in social work. Volume 10 (2013) / heading “Social Work Science”. C-HM, Vienna
• Ursula Karl-Trummer (2011): Challenges in the care of “undocumented migrants” in primary health care in Austria . In: Peintinger, Michael (ed.): Interculturally competent. A handbook for doctors , p. 329 - 339 Faculty Publishing. Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-7089-0719-2
• Ursula Karl-Trummer, Sonja Novak-Zezula, Birgit Metzler (2010): Access to healthcare for undocumented migrants in the EU: A first landscape of NowHereland . In: Eurohealth, Vol 16 No 1, p. 13-16
• Ursula Karl-Trummer, Birgit Metzler, Sonja Novak-Zezula (2009): Health Care for Undocumented Migrants in the EU: Concepts and Cases. Background paper developed within the framework of the IOM project “Assisting Migrants and Communities (AMAC): Analysis of Social Determinants of Health and Health Inequalities” . Brussels: IOM
• Ursula Karl-Trummer (2009): Inclusion through exclusion: Paradox management of health care for people without papers. In: Borde, Theda; David, Mathias; Papies-Winkler, Ingrid (Ed.): Life situations and health care for people without papers. Mabuse publishing house. Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 978-3-940529-36-7
• Ursula Karl-Trummer, Birgit Metzler, Sonja Novak-Zezula (2009): Managing a Paradox: Health Care for Undocumented Migrants in the EU . In: Finnish Journal of Ethnicity and Migration; 4, 2; p. 53-60
• Ursula Karl-Trummer, Birgit Metzler, Sonja Novak-Zezula (2009): Health services in no man's land: Functional ignorance and informal solidarity , in Rasky, Eva (2009): Health has the right to stay, Facultas. Vienna

Individual evidence

1. ^ Austrian Red Cross: Red Cross: AMBER-MED. Retrieved January 15, 2018 . 
2. ^ Roma and Health. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 7, 2018 ; accessed on January 15, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ URSULA KARL-TRUMMER, SONJA NOVAK-ZEZULA, BIRGIT METZLER: HEALTH SERVICES IN NOBODY'S LAND: FUNCTIONAL IGNORANCE AND INFORMAL SOLIDARITY. (PDF) Danube University Krems, Center for Health and Migration, accessed on January 15, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Project of the month: AmberMed | spendeninfo.at - Current. Retrieved January 15, 2018 . 
5. ^ Social info Vienna: AMBER-MED outpatient medical care, social advice and medication help for people without health insurance, Diakonie refugee service and Austrian Red Cross - Social info Vienna. Retrieved January 15, 2018 . 
6. ↑ FM4 for Licht ins Dunkel 2011 - fm4.ORF.at. Retrieved January 15, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Medical Association donates mobile ultrasound device to AmberMed - details. Retrieved January 15, 2018 (German). 
8. ^ AEK - Doctor in Vienna . In: FlippingBook . ( progipark.com [accessed January 15, 2018]).
9. ↑ Pharmig: Pharmig funded projects, youth & amber. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 6, 2018 ; accessed on January 15, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ Picum: Members of Picum. Accessed January 30, 2018 . 
11. ↑ Nominations 2017 | MigAward 2017. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 28, 2017 ; accessed on January 15, 2018 (German). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
12. ↑ Amber-Med wins social award . In: OTS.at . ( ots.at [accessed January 15, 2018]).
13. ↑ Winning project 2011 - Bank Austria Social Award 2017. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 7, 2018 ; accessed on January 15, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
14. ↑ “Amber-Med” received the “Best Start 2011” social award | Evangelical Church in Austria. Retrieved January 15, 2018 (German). 
15. ↑ Austrian Red Cross: Red Cross: Amber-Med wins “Best Start 2011”. Retrieved January 15, 2018 . 
16. ^ Roma-and-Health. (PDF) Retrieved February 5, 2018 . 
17. ^ Health care in no man's land. (PDF) Retrieved February 5, 2018 . 
18. ^ Migrants and Healthcare. (PDF) Retrieved February 5, 2018 . 
19. ^ Exclusion and health of undocumented migrants. (PDF) Retrieved February 5, 2018 . 
20. ↑ Access to healthcare for undocumented migrants in the EU: A first landscape of NowHereland. (PDF) Retrieved February 5, 2018 . 
21. ↑ 1 Health Care for Undocumented Migrants in the EU: Concepts and Cases. (PDF) Retrieved February 5, 2018 . 
22. ↑ Managing a Paradox: Health Care for Undocumented Migrants in the EU. (PDF) Retrieved February 5, 2018 . 
23. ↑ Health Services in No Man's Land: Functional Ignorance and Informal Solidarity. (PDF) Retrieved February 5, 2018 .