Müttergenesungswerk

The Elly -Heuss -Knapp Foundation - German Müttergenesungswerk (short Müttergenesungswerk ) is a company incorporated in 1950 by Elly Heuss -Knapp civil law foundation to promote maternal health. The registered office is stone. The Foundation is under the statutes are under the patronage of the wife of the President or the President of the Confederation. Patron of Mothers ' Convalescence is Joachim Gauck girlfriend Daniela Schadt. Current Chairman of the Board of Trustees is Dagmar Ziegler. She succeeds Marlene Rupprecht.

History

Elly Heuss- Knapp, the wife of the then Federal President Theodor Heuss, announced the establishment of the Foundation on January 31, 1950 in a radio broadcast known. So far, all the wives and concubines were the German President Board of Trustees Chairman or patrons of Müttergenesungswerk.

Overview

The aim of the Müttergenesungswerk is to strengthen mothers in their health. Under the umbrella of the Foundation are women specific and comprehensive preventive and rehabilitation measures offered for mothers and mothers with children, including medical and psychosocial therapies, as well as health promotion. In Müttergenesungswerk the following five carrier groups have come together to jointly promote the health of mothers:

• Workers' Welfare Association ( AWO )
• The welfare organization ( DPWV )
• German Red Cross (DRK )
• Protestant Association for Women's Health Association ( EVA, Social Service Agency )
• Catholic Association for Müttergenesungswerk Association ( CISA, Caritas )

They are recognized by the carrier Müttergenesungswerk 6 mothers and 78 mother-child facilities for mothers or mother-child treatments and approximately 1,400 consulting and exchanges. In 2006, approximately 35,000 women were able to participate with 52,000 children in a measure of Müttergenesungswerk.

Indications for preventive or rehabilitation of MGW

Many mothers are affected by an exhaustion syndrome, which can be seen in the context of family work and gender-typical multiple pressures, demands and excessive and often contradictory expectations. Often women respond to this permanent overtaxing with unhealthy coping strategies and the development of physical, psychological and psychosomatic symptoms - especially if occurring in overload situations other problems, such as partnership disputes, financial problems, unemployment, illness or disability of a family member.

This fatigue are associated with a variety of psychosomatic disorders, somatoform disorders, and functional disorders. The symptoms range from physical ailments such as headaches, insomnia or sweats to diffuse impairments such as constant fatigue or depression, listlessness, mood swings or anxiety. Often come to functional disorders such as spinal or disc problems or Herz-/Kreislaufbeschwerden.

Indications for mothers who participate in a prevention or rehabilitation facilities in the German Müttergenesungswerk include, among others:

• Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases
• Mental and behavioral disorders
• Diseases of the nervous system
• Diseases of the circulatory system
• Diseases of the respiratory system
• Diseases of the digestive system
• Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue
• Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue
• Diseases of the genitourinary
• Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities

Indications for children to care or rehabilitation in the mother -child measure include:

• Diseases of the respiratory system
• Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue
• Mental and behavioral disorders
• Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities

There are also several facilities offers, take into account the particular life situations of women, such as offers for mothers with disabled children, for mothers with needy relatives, for mothers with addicted family members, for single mothers or to the funeral processing.

Treatment concept

The measures of Müttergenesungswerk based on a holistic and women-specific approach. The focus is less on individual symptoms and suffering than to the symptom constellations and their complex causes. Physical, psychological and social aspects of diseases and ailments are treated integrates the entire life of the woman is the starting point of all medical and therapeutic measures. The women should be enabled by the therapies in a position to recognize the connections between their stressful life circumstances and their diseases. The aim is to assist in the development of a positive health awareness and adequate coping mechanisms.

To achieve this objective, interdisciplinary teams work closely together in the facilities of the Mothers ' Convalescence: physicians, psychologists, physiotherapists, social workers and dietitians help women to cope with their disease and life situations.

The medical care and rehabilitation aimed at both mothers and to mothers alone with their children. In mothers measures women have the chance to get away to focus on " work family " once only on themselves and their needs to be accountable only to themselves. In mother-child additional measures of children's diseases are treated preventively or rehabilitative what time of increasing diseases of children is becoming increasingly important. Reasons for parent -child activities but it is made even if a separation of mother and child is unreasonable or there is no other accommodation option for the child. The children will demand medical care and educational support. The additional mother-child interaction services have a high priority for the healthy development of the child and the well-being of the mother. At the same time they offer the opportunity to experience the mother -child relationship new.

Quality assurance and quality development

All recognized by Müttergenesungswerk inpatient facilities are committed to quality- led implementation of preventive and rehabilitation measures based on the content specifications by the MGW.

The devices operate according to a fixed concept for quality assurance and development, which is continuously adapted to the changing conditions. This ensures that the preventive and rehabilitation measures represent the current state of scientific knowledge. Goal of this approach is to define the framework to specify structures to accompany the treatment processes and to make the results verifiable.

Treatment effects

The health success of the measures of maternal health work has been scientifically proven. The research network prevention and rehabilitation for mothers and children of the Hannover Medical School has to carried out examinations and submitted publications.

The results show that reducing the burdens clearly marked entrance and a transfer is successful in everyday life, eg, reduction of fatigue, strengthen parenting skills, an overall significant improvement in health status. In addition, be taken less medication after the end of the action, falling to fewer sick days and doctor visits and fewer outpatient measures taken to complete. Also, the overall health status of children has improved significantly at the end of the action. Long-term studies show a half or one year after the intervention, that these results are still medium and long term detectable in mothers and children.

Counseling centers

Nationwide are approximately 1,400 counseling and placement centers of charitable organizations as focal points to questions about a mother or mother -to-child measure is available. The largest concentration of counseling centers ( 400 ) provides the Catholic Association for maternal health (CISA / Caritas ). The advice ranges from practical issues ( care of the children, applying, financing ) to the clarification of expectations and goals. After the operation, the counselors, the women help them to integrate new knowledge and behavior patterns in everyday life, and make it applicable in the long term. In particular, the workers' welfare, it is able to provide a standardized follow-up program is already under preparation during the treatment the mothers according to the stationary measure voluntary support in everyday life.

One of the essential foundations for lasting success is a good preparation for the measure and the accompanying reworking of residence. This so-called " therapeutic chain " is unique and characteristic of the Müttergenesungswerk.

Legal basis / eligibility

Since 1 April 2007 stationary Mütter-/Mutter-Kind-Maßnahmen in care and rehabilitation have become mandatory power of SHI. Basically all women ( and in accordance with § 40 Section 1 Sentence 2 SGB V also fathers ) in family responsibility to be a medical prevention or rehabilitation pursuant to § 24 and § 41 SGB V, if this is medically indicated and the doctor or the doctor's necessity of this measure has attested.

Outpatient measures not take precedence over stationary mothers or mother-child measures, ie health insurance must approve medically necessary treatments. The measures are divided into two areas: prevention and rehabilitation. For both areas the following medical conditions must be met:

In assessing the environmental and personal contextual factors are taken into account.

The length of stay is usually three weeks in medically necessary cases, they can also be extended. The repetition period between two measures includes four years. Again medically justified exceptions are possible.

A claim for inpatient medical care and rehabilitation for mothers was also under the Federal Social Security Act ( § 37 Federal Social Assistance Act ).