Dear Visitors of our Website,
the aim of the ÖDG´s (Austrian Diabetes Association), the scientific society of diabetes experts in Austria is to promote research and scientific exchange between scientists/physicians in order to improve diabetes care and patient´s quality of life. We try to build a bridge between health care professionals and patients. The ÖDG organizes congresses, funds research and publications and develops guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of diabetes and its complications. On the occasion of our Annual and Spring Meetings scientific news are presented and discussed as well as “state of the art” lectures and workshops offer well balanced information for physicians, dietitians and diabetes educators.
Furthermore, the ÖDG acts as the diabetes reference organization for contacts with the social insurance companies and the Federal Health Ministry. ÖDG guidelines for diabetes care, which can be downloaded on this website, provide the basis for diabetes diagnosis and treatment within the Austrian diabetes disease management program “Therapie aktiv”.
During the next years the ÖDG will put its main focus on the health care policy for disease prevention, the implementation of a diabetes registry and the extension of the disease management program “Therapie aktiv” from general practitioners and specialists in internal medicine to out-patient clinics as well as hospitals. In addition to previous programs special emphasis will be paid to patients with Type 1 diabetes and the increasing diabetes prevalence in persons with a background of migration. The ÖDG aims to enhance life expectancy and quality of life of all persons with diabetes living in Austria.
Do you need specific information on diagnosis, prevention or treatment of diabetes? Members of the ÖDG will be pleased to answer your individual questions. Just send an e-mail to office@oedg.at and experts of the ÖDG will answer your question as soon as possible.
Kind regards,
Raimund Weitgasser, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
President of the Austrian Diabetes Association ÖDG
Pressrelease:
The Austrian Diabetes Association (Österreichische Diabetes Gesellschaft - “ÖDG”) recently adopted the Austrian Diabetes Charta as a groundbreaking document outlining strategies against the widespread disease diabetes (with an estimated number of 600,000 sufferers in Austria, tendency increasing). The Austrian Minister of health, Alois Stöger, and the provinces Salzburg and Styria have already expressed their support for the charta, other leading organisations like the social insurance carriers shall also be involved.
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Information:
The disease management programm for type 2 diabetes in Austria
(PDF - 31KB)
Austrian Diabetes Association
Währingerstrasse 76 / 13
A- 1090 Wien
Tel. + 43 (0) 650 / 770 33 78
Fax. + 43 (01) 264 52 29
E-Mail: office@oedg.at
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