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Equal Opportunities for Older Women |
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| WHO-Modellprojekte: Frauengesundheitszentrum F.E.M + F.E.M/Süd (WHO Model Projects: The Women's Health Centres F.E.M + F.E.M/South) | |||||||||
| Communicational details | |||||||||
| Address: Bastiengasse 36-38 1180 Wien Austria |
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| Contact persons and their
known foreign languages: Mag. Daniela Kern, Head of F.E.M, English Mag. Doris Gartner, Head of F.E.M-South |
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| Telephone:
0043-1-47615-5771 Telefax: 0043-1-47615-5779 E-Mail: office@lbi.ac.at Internet: http://www.fem.at |
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| About the initiative | |||||||||
| Status of the initiative: | The initiative is an initiative aimed at improving equal opportunities for older women through an organisation that pursues objectives which are independent of gender or age. | ||||||||
| The initiative is independent and has the following legal form: association | |||||||||
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| Content and framework conditions of the project work | |||||||||
| The initiative was founded in: 1992 | |||||||||
| The initiative was founded
because of the following reasons: - Survey of
women's requirements in the districts 17, 18 and 19 in Vienna |
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| Target group(s): | Women with osteoporosis, more socially disadvantages women, migrant women | ||||||||
| Targets: | Promotion of women's health in the hospital setting, prevention, re-orientation of the health services in the sense of women-friendly services, cooperation and networking | ||||||||
| Details of the work done by
the initiative: - Courses, workshops and
lectures on themes related to women's health, with special emphasis on pregnancy,
parenthood, eating disorders, menopause, old-age and osteoporosis |
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| Areas of work of the initiative: | |||||||||
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| Success that the initiative
has achieved: Increasing number of calls and course participants, high degree of awareness of our intiaitve in the district and in neighbouring Viennese districts, model function for Munich and Cologne both of which initiated their own women's health centres |
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| Problems that the
initiative has been faced during its work: It is often difficult to make contact with migrant women, as they have different concepts of health, and with women from socially more disadvantaged groups |
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| Participation of the target
group concerning the conception, planning and implementation of the initiative's work: Surveys, course evaluations, lectures and other events |
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| Co-operation: We have been cooperating with EWHNET, a network of Austrian women's health
centres, since 1992, and with all the institutions active in the medical and psycho-social
field. |
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| Information: We are available for people interested in receiving more information on our initiative by phone, post or e-mail. |
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| Organisational background of the initiative | |||||||||
| Staff: 60 salaried employees at the supporting organisation. |
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| Publications or information
material available on our initiative: F.E.M Programme (twice yearly), articles, short reports, annual reports, a five-year report |
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