Beate Wimmer-Puchinger

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Beate Wimmer-Puchinger (born April 29, 1948 in Upper Austria ) is an Austrian psychologist whose research and practice is dedicated to the topic of women's health. From 1999 to 2015 she was the City of Vienna's first women's health officer to implement the Vienna women's health program.

In 1992 she founded Austria's first women's health center - the FEM in the Semmelweis women's clinic in Vienna. As an external professor, she has been teaching at the Institute for Psychology at the University of Salzburg since 1992, specializing in clinical psychology , public health , health & gender and teaching as a visiting professor a. a. at the Alice Salomon University in Berlin and at the Public Health Institute of the Medical University of Vienna .

She is committed to the recognition of the training of clinical psychologists in Austria and is a co-creator of the Austrian Psychologists Act, for which she was awarded the Golden Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria in 2011 .

Life

Beate Wimmer-Puchinger graduated from the Realgymnasium Wels, Upper Austria, in 1966. In 1967 she studied psychology, pedagogy and German studies at the University of Vienna , completed a year of study at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich and obtained a doctorate in psychology from the University of Vienna in 1974. phil. In 1985 she received her habilitation, venia docendi for the entire field of psychology, and in 1993 the University of Salzburg awarded her the title of "extraordinary university professor".

Beate Wimmer-Puchinger has been married to the architect Albert Wimmer since 1977 and is the mother of two daughters.

Services

Beate Wimmer-Puchinger's efforts to promote women's health in Austria are rooted in the second wave of the women's movement and in its struggle for women's right to self-determination. The women's health movement, which refused to understand the male body as a medical norm and which criticized the medicalization of the female body and medicine as paternalistic and purely biological, influenced her work. At the Ignaz Semmelweis Women's Clinic , she set up the psychosomatic outpatient clinic in 1984 and started the FEM Women's Health Center in 1992, which began as a WHO model project.

On the recommendation of the WHO, she prepared the first Vienna Women's Health Report (1996), which showed gender-specific health and disease indicators as well as deficits in prevention and care. The results of the report motivated the then City Councilor for Health, Sepp Rieder , to develop a women's health program of their own. Wimmer-Puchinger was entrusted with the implementation in 1999.

As a women's health officer, she carried out numerous projects for information, health promotion and care for girls and women in Vienna, which are now part of the city's health landscape. I.a. the eating disorder hotline, the establishment of the culturally sensitive women's health center FEM Süd, understandable information brochures, health promotion offers for women with social disadvantage, measures for the early detection of postpartum depression and pregnancy crises, large-scale pilot programs for quality-based mammography screening , training for health workers on early detection of violent genitalia (FGM).

Honors

Publications

  • together with Karin Gutierrez-Lobos, Anita Riecher-Rössler: "Insanely feminine - psychological crises in women's life, help in practice", Springer Verlag, Vienna 2015
  • together with Christina Bässler, Alexandra Beurle, Judith Raunig: "Psychosocial Influences on Birth Methods and Satisfaction", Ed .: Vienna Program for Women's Health, Vienna 2013
  • together with Karin Eger, Thomas Helbich: "Organized, quality-assured early breast cancer detection: challenges and successes of the Viennese mammography model project 'I look at myself'". In: BreastCare 05/2009
  • together with Anita Riecher-Rössler : "Postpartum Depression. From Research to Practice.", Springer Verlag, Vienna 2006.
  • together with Erika Baldaszti, Elfriede Urbas: "Austrian Women's Health Report 2005". On behalf of the Federal Ministry for Health and Women (BMGF). Vienna 2005. Online.
  • together with Erika Baldaszti: "Sexuality and gender: Gender-specific aspects of sexuality and reproductive health in Austria. Expertise and sex survey in women and men aged 15 and over". Funded by the anniversary fund of the Austrian National Bank. Vienna 2005.
  • together with Erika Baldaszti: "Pregnancy conflict - motives for or against abortion.", study funded by the Federal Ministry of Social Security and Generations, Vienna 2001, research report
  • together with Erika Baldaszti: "Psychological aspects of the contraceptive behavior of women in the middle phase of life. Evaluation of a long-term contraceptive from the point of view of the user.", (Mirena / Schering) - 2.5 years follow-up
  • together with Erika Baldaszti: "Mother-child passport examinations. Inventory and development of optimization approaches." 2001 Study funded by the Healthy Austria Fund and the provincial governments of Burgenland, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Carinthia and Vorarlberg.
  • together with Erika Baldaszti, Kathleen Löschke, Marion Venus: "Women's health promotion. Strategies for target group-specific health promotion of socially disadvantaged women, migrants and pregnant women." Ed .: Federal Ministry for Social Security and Generations, series "Original Papers - Studies - Research Reports", Volume 3/2000
  • together with Erika Baldaszti, Norbert Vetter: "HIV / AIDS in gynecology. A doctor / patient study." Vienna 1999
  • together with Barbara Fuchs: "Lower Austrian Women's Health Report - Final Report.", Study on behalf of the Office of the Lower Austrian Provincial Government 1999
  • First Vienna Women's Health Report, on behalf of the Health Department, Vienna 1996
  • Violence in the family. Extent, intervention and prevention. A survey of school doctors on behalf of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Youth and Family, carried out by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Women's Health Psychology, 1996
  • Austrian Women's Health Profile, "Austrian Women's Health Report", on behalf of the Healthy Austria Fund, Austria 1995
  • together with Christiana Nöstlinger : "Protected love, youth sexuality and AIDS.", Jugend & Volk Verlag, Vienna 1994
  • "Pregnancy as a crisis, psychosocial conditions of pregnancy complications", Springer Verlag, Vienna 1992

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archive report: Women's health program in the Vienna City Council
  2. Archive report: Vienna Women's Health Center receives high WHO award
  3. Kuhlmann Ellen, Kolip Petra: Gender and Public Health: Fundamental orientations for research, practice and politics (basic texts health sciences), Juventa. Munich 2005
  4. ^ Archive report: Rieder presents First Vienna Women's Health Report
  5. Archive report: Vienna Women's Health Program (1)
  6. www.essstoerungshotline.at
  7. Rieder and Brauner open FEM-Süd
  8. ^ Archive report: City of Vienna: Turkish-language service for preventive medical check-ups
  9. Success for "I stay healthy - Saglikli kalacagim"
  10. ^ Archive report: Wehsely: Gold medals to Wimmer-Puchinger, Seidl and Bartl
  11. Vienna Women's Health Commissioner receives Golden Cross of Honor - Women's Health Vienna
  12. Women's health officer honored with Merit Award - Women's Health Vienna
  13. ^ Women's award for Viennese health pioneer on ORF from December 7, 2016, accessed on December 7, 2016
  14. http://www.diesie.at/downloads/dokumente/Factsheets_Praesentationen_Folder/2013_einflussteile_geburtsmethod_satisfaction.pdf
  15. ^ Postpartum Depression - From Research to Practice - Beate Wimmer-Puchinger - Springer
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  17. http://www.abtreiber.at/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/Schwangerschaftskonflikt.2001.pdf