Rainer Müller (doctor)

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Rainer Müller (born December 19, 1941 in Hagen ; † October 27, 2019 ) was a German doctor and social scientist . From 1976 to 2007 he was professor for occupational medicine and social medicine at the University of Bremen and from 1988 to 2007 head of the department of health policy, occupational and social medicine at the Center for Social Policy (now Socium ). From 1994 to 2006 he was the spokesman for the Center for Social Policy.

Life

After graduating from high school, Rainer Müller studied medicine at the University of Münster and the University of Vienna from 1962 to 1969 . In 1970 he received his license to practice medicine and received his doctorate as Dr. med. with Hans Joachim Einbrodt .

The study of sociology in Münster, which began in 1968, was continued at the Free University of Berlin from 1971 and was completed in 1973 with the diploma thesis "On the political function of critical groups in public: a sociological investigation of the Cabora Bassa campaign in the FRG and in West Berlin".

From January 1973 to September 1976 he was employed as an assistant and senior physician at the Department of Hygiene and Occupational Medicine at the Medical Faculty of RWTH Aachen University .

From 1976 to 2007 he was a professor for occupational medicine, social medicine and public health at the University of Bremen. In 1983 a research stay at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at Oxford University took place.

After being appointed to the University of Bremen, numerous research projects on work-related illnesses and public health followed. Research with routine data from statutory health insurance companies became a focus of his work. He has given significant impetus for science and politics. The obligation of the statutory health insurances to work-related prevention and health promotion with §20 of the Health Reform Act (GRG) from 1989 goes back to this research.

Together with other actors (especially Stephan Leibfried ) he was a founding member of the research focus “Reproductive Risks, Social Movements and Social Policy” (1978–1985). From this, with the support of the Volkswagen Foundation, the Center for Social Policy (ZeS) at the University of Bremen, founded in September 1988, has since become part of the Socium. He took over the management of the department “Health Policy, Occupational and Social Medicine” and was the spokesman for the ZeS from 1994 to 2006. From 1988 to 2001 he was involved in setting up and managing the Collaborative Research Center 186 at the University of Bremen on status passages and risk situations in the life course.

He was also a company doctor at Flughafen Bremen GmbH from 1984 to 2009 and lecturer at the Linz Academy for Occupational Medicine and Safety Technology from 1989 to 2013.

Focus of work

  • work-related health hazards and illnesses
  • Osh
  • occupational prevention
  • Health promotion
  • company health policy
  • History of Occupational Medicine
  • Professionalization of company doctors
  • Health policy
  • Public health

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 9, 2019. Accessed November 9, 2019.
  2. ↑ Müller, R .; Fuchs, K.-D .; Schwarz, F .; Weisbrod, H., 1985: "Research with process data from statutory health insurance as an information basis and impetus for a preventive health policy in the world of work", in: R. Rosenbrock; F. Hauß (ed.), Health Insurance and Prevention. Berlin, 127-145.
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, social scientist and professor at the University of Bremen
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 2019