Alois Stöger

Alois Stoeger ( born September 3, 1960 in Linz) is Unionists ( FSG) and in December 2008 an Austrian Minister for Health ( SPÖ).

Life

After technical school, who grew up in All Saints in Mühlkreisautobahn Stoeger completed an apprenticeship as a machinist at VÖEST in Linz. In 1982 he became chairman of the Upper Austrian trade union youth, from 1986 he was secretary of the union metal mining energy. He was also from 1997 to 2003 in Gallneukirchen council, city council from 2003 to 2008. In addition to his professional activities as a union official, he completed training courses in the Social Academy of the Vienna Chamber of Labour and the European Social Academy. In addition, he completed the distance learning "social practice " at the Marc Bloch University in Strasbourg.

In mid-2005 he was unanimously elected chairman of the Upper Austrian Health Insurance ( OÖGKK ). He received great encouragement from his party because of the financial management of OÖGKK.

Alois Stoeger is married for the second time and has a grown daughter from his first marriage.

Policy

November 24, 2008 has been designated to the health minister in the newly formed Austrian government and sworn in on 2 December 2008 together with the federal government Faymann I Alois Stoeger from the SPÖ chairman Werner Faymann.

A major concern is the cash restructuring package, the Stoeger presented in April 2009 at the Council of Ministers. This called for to reduce the existing financial deficits of the health insurance.

As Health Minister he was criticized versatile in terms of the Non smoking protection. The Green MEP Eva Glawischnig - Piesczek threw Stoeger against indifference and described his solution of structurally separate Nichtraucher-/Raucherbereichen as farce.

Other focal points of his policy are nutrition and healthy eating. Since early 2011, the Minister of Health works by setting the "National Nutrition Action Plan " ( NAP.e. ). The World Health Organization (WHO ) estimates that three quarters of all deaths in developed countries, such as Austria have to do with the personal life ( diseases caused by poor diet ). The NAP.e. provides about 100 measures to improve the eating habits of the Austrian population. (eg the initiative "Right food from the beginning", introduction of a single food labeling "Food Charter " ) Priority target groups for NAP.e measures are children, pregnant women, lactating women and the socially disadvantaged.

According to the health restoration and the creation of group practices Minister Stoeger started in autumn 2010 with negotiations on a nationwide health care reform. In the health care reform planning, management and funding in the health sector are placed in a shared responsibility and transparency increased. The reform was adopted on April 26, 2013 by a vote of the SPÖ, ÖVP and the Greens in the National Council.

Honors and Awards

• Large Gold Medal with Ribbon for Services to the Republic by Federal President Heinz Fischer