Jürgen Pelikan

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Jürgen Pelikan (born January 21, 1940 in Breslau ) is a retired sociologist and university professor at the University of Vienna. He is particularly known for his scientific work on the system-theoretical conception of health promotion . Pelikan is the founder of the Ludwig-Boltzmann Institute for Medical and Health Sociology.

Life

Pelikan studied sociology, psychology, philosophy and art history at the Free University of Berlin as well as at the London School of Economics and Political Science , the University of Hamburg , the University of Vienna and at the Institute for Advanced Studies . In 1964 he became a research assistant in the department of sociology of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna as part of postgraduate studies. Pelikan received his doctorate in 1970 from the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Vienna and then went to Columbia University in New York as a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Ford Foundation . Back in Vienna, he was appointed head of the Sociology Department at the Institute for Advanced Studies. In addition, from 1972 to 1982 he was a university lecturer at the University of Vienna and from 1981 to 1985 a full-time lecturer at the Federal Administration Academy in Vienna. In 1979, Pelikan founded the Ludwig-Boltzmann Institute for Medical and Health Sociology, which he headed together with Hans Strotzka until 1989 and alone from 1989 to 2007. Pelikan completed his habilitation in sociology in 1981 at the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences at the University of Vienna. From 1985 to 1991 and from 1995 to 2004 he was director of the Institute for Sociology in Vienna and 2005 director of studies. In 1999/2000 he was the scientific director of the university course in organizational development in the field of education at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research and Advanced Training at the Universities of Innsbruck, Klagenfurt and Vienna. Between 1998 and 2004 he also headed the university course for teaching and managerial nursing staff and from 2002 to 2004 the university course in management in the health and hospital sector, both of which are collaborations between the University of Vienna and the Vienna Hospital Association .

Pelikan has been Adjunct Professor at the Center for Environment and Public Health at Griffith University in Brisbane since 2007 . In addition, since 1992 he has been Director of the WHO Cooperation Center for Health Promotion in Hospitals and Health Care and since 2008 key researcher of the Health Promotion Hospital program at the Ludwig-Boltzmann Institute for Medical and Health Sociology (LBIHPR).

Research priorities

Memberships in scientific associations (selection)

Pelikan's scientific activity is linked to membership in numerous national and international associations:

  • International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) (Member of the Board of Trustees, member)
  • Health Promotion International, Oxford University Press (Editor)
  • European Society of Health and Medical Sociology (ESHMS) (former President & Member of the Executive Committee, member)
  • International Sociological Association (ISA) (member)
  • German Society for Sociology (DGS) (member)
  • German Society for Medical Sociology (DGMS) (member)
  • Austrian Society for Public Health (ÖGPH) (founding member & former Vice President, member)
  • Austrian Society for Theory and Practice of Health Promotion (ÖGTPF) (founding member, chairman)
  • Austrian Society for Medical Sociology (ÖGMS) (founding member, former chairman)
  • Austrian Society for Group Dynamics and Organizational Consulting (ÖGGO) (full member in the field of group dynamics, teaching trainer in the field of organizational consulting)
  • Editor of the series health sciences / health promotion at Facultas Verlag Vienna

Publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Institute for Sociology »Jürgen Pelikan Focus on University of Vienna .
  2. ↑ a b c GMaier: Jürgen Pelikan . June 28, 2012.
  3. ↑ HPH Conference: TEAM .
  4. ↑ Pelikan, JM (2009): Differentiation of specific functional systems for patient treatment and health promotion or: Do we live in the “health society”? Austrian Journal for Sociology, 34 (2), 28-47.
  5. ↑ Pelikan, JM (2007): Health Promotion through Organizational Development. A system-theoretical approach to a solution. Prevention and Health Promotion, 2 (2), 74-81.
  6. Jump up ↑ Pelikan, JM (2007): Understanding Differentiation of Health in Late Modernity - by use of sociological system theory. In: McQueen, DV, Kickbusch, IS (Eds.), Health and Modernity: The Role of Theory in Health Promotion. (pp.74-102). New York: Springer.
  7. ^ Pelikan, JM, Dietscher, C., Röthlin, F., Schmied, H. (2011): Hospitals as organizational settings for health and health promotion. Vienna: LBIHPR. (Working Paper LBIHPR 5.)
  8. ↑ Dietscher, C., Krajic, K., Pelikan, JM (Eds.) (2008): Health promoting hospitals and health institutions: Concept and practice in Austria. Vienna: BMGFJ.
  9. ↑ Pelikan, JM, Schmied, H. (2011): Health Promoting Hospitals. Hospital - Official Journal of the European Association of Hospital Managers, 13 (4), 19-21.
  10. ↑ Pelikan, JM, Dietscher, C., Krajic, K., Nowak, P. (2005): 18 Core Strategies for Health Promoting Hospitals (HPH). In: Groene, O., Garcia-Barbero, M. (Eds.), Health Promotion in Hospitals: Evidence and Quality Management (pp.46-63) .: World Health Organization.
  11. ↑ Pelikan, JM, Grießler E., Grundböck, A., Krajic, K. (1998): The virtual hospital - the way out or the ideal way for future patient care. In: Pelikan, JM, Stacher, A., Grundböck, A., Krajic, K., Virtual Hospital at Home - Development and Quality of Holistic Home Nursing, Facultas, Vienna, 15-39.
  12. ↑ Health literacy . Facts . 18th March 2017.
  13. ^ Migrant Friendly Hospitals, official homepage .
  14. ↑ Super User: Membership - IUHPE .
  15. ^ Editorial_Board - Health Promotion International - Oxford Academic .
  16. ↑ ESHMS - European Society for Health and Medical Sociology .
  17. ^ Austrian Society for Group Dynamics and Organizational Consulting, members
personal data
SURNAME Pelikan, Jürgen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pelikan, Jürgen M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw