Working group for women's health in medicine, psychotherapy and society
| Working group women's health in medicine, psychotherapy and society (AKF) |
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|---|---|
| legal form | Nonprofit organization |
| founding | 1993 |
| founder | Claudia Czerwinski, Carol Hagemann-White , Barbara Ehret, Maria Krieger, Ingrid Olbricht , Brigitte Dorst, Elisabeth Trube-Becker |
| Seat | Berlin |
| main emphasis | Women's health in medicine, psychotherapy and society |
| Action space | Germany |
| Chair | Ingrid Mühlhauser |
| Employees | 1 |
| Website | Arbeitskreis-frauengesundheit.de/ |
The working group for women's health in medicine, psychotherapy and society e. V. (AKF) is a non-profit association founded in 1993 and the largest association of independent women's health organizations in German-speaking countries today. The AKF organizes midwives , doctors, psychologists and educators, alternative practitioners, people working in the nursing professions, self-help and health scientists, brings together professional associations and organizations, women's advice centers, women's health centers and self-help associations, and represents the interests of women as patients, as experts and as citizens. In November 2017 Ingrid Mühlhauser was elected chairman of the working group.
organization
The working group for women's health in medicine, psychotherapy and society e. V. (AKF) is committed to developing and imparting knowledge from gynecology , psychotherapy , psychosomatics and related areas from a women-specific point of view . Particular emphasis is placed on promoting and supporting women’s personal responsibility for health, collecting and evaluating relevant work results from the above-mentioned subject areas and providing information to interested parties. The AKF works in an interdisciplinary manner in order to clarify the background of the influences on women's health and promotes the archiving of publications from the areas mentioned. The association's headquarters are in Berlin .
The work of the association is mainly financed from membership fees and private donations from women. The AKF also receives project-related funds from public funds, from statutory health insurance companies or from small, non-profit, women-oriented foundations.
history
The association was founded against the background of undesirable developments in medicine, explicitly superfluous operations, a trend in which the founders saw an alienation of actual medical tasks, through which women were disqualified as medical objects.
Regular activities
The working group for women's health in medicine, psychotherapy and society e. V. regularly writes position papers and statements on issues relating to women's health and organizes annual conferences, specialist conferences on gynecology and specialist events dedicated to the training and information of interested parties in order to draw attention to relevant current issues in women's health.
Educational work
The AKF has developed information material on topics such as HPV vaccination, IGeL services, hormone therapy or normal birth. There are brochures on topics such as the mental health of women affected by violence and their children, maternity leave, caesarean sections, or avoiding hormonally active chemicals and breast cancer.
Health-related advocacy
The working group for women's health in medicine, psychotherapy and society e. V. works together with authorities at local and national level, sends experts to assist in the development of medical guidelines and, as a partner organization of the Society for Insurance Science and Design , works on national health goals . In 2006, for example, the AKF founded the round table "Becoming Parents '' phase of life against the increasing pathologization and medicalization of pregnancy and childbirth, and for many years has played a key role in the development of the national health goal" Health all around childbirth "published in February 2017.
Networking
The association has around 70 member organizations that are also committed to promoting women's health, including B.
- German Midwives Association e. V. (DHV)
- medica mondiale e. V.
- Mothers' convalescence work Elly-Heuss-Knapp-Stiftung - German mothers convalescence work
- Terre des Femmes e. V. (TDF)
- Federal Association of Women's Advice Centers and Women's Emergency Calls - Women against Violence (bff)
as well as the women's refuge coordination, women's health centers, and women's health-specific self-help organizations. In addition, the association maintains other collaborations.
Publications (selection)
- Ramona Saavedra Santis, Christl Wickert (ed.): "... impossible to stop this horror" - medical care by inmates in the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp. Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86331-344-9 .
- Self-optimization to the point of exhaustion ... Resilience and mental health of women. Working group for women's health in medicine, psychotherapy and society (ed.). Mabuse Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-86321-280-3 .
- Barbara Ehret, Mirjam Roepke-Bunscak: Women - Body - Health - Life. Diana Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-453-28513-2 .
- Maria Beckermann, Friederike Perl (Ed.): Women's medicine and birth aid. Schwabe Verlag, Basel 2004, ISBN 3-7965-1600-9 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Association: Working group for women's health in medicine, psychotherapy and society
- ↑ Monika Murphy-Witt: How it all began ... The founders remember. In: AKF-Info. Working group women's health in medicine, psychotherapy and society 4, 2003, p. 4.
- ↑ Cooperations: Working group for women's health in medicine, psychotherapy and society
- ↑ Round table phase of life becoming parents ( Memento from July 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ health goals.de : Health around the birth
- ↑ Member organizations: Working group for women's health in medicine, psychotherapy and society
- ↑ List of cooperation partners and sponsors: Gesundheitsziel.de