Mioara Mincu

Mioara Mincu, born Slăniceanu at Conțești, Dâmbovița county, Romania (10 February 1933 - 2 February 2008) was a physician and MD in Social Medicine and Public Health, teacher and publicist. She was a leader of the feminist movement in Romania and in 1992 she established the Romanian Women's National Confederation (Confederația Naționale a Femeilor din România - CNFR) holding the position of executive President until 2008. Dr Mioara Mincu was a member of the Demographic Center of World Health Organization, UNICEF and UNESCO, and a member of the Romanian Writer and Publicist Physicians' Society (Societatea Medicilor Scriitori si Publicisti din România - SMSPR).
== Biography ==
Mioara Mincu was born on 10 February 1933 in Conțești village, Dâmbovița county, Romania, from parents Elena (Duță) and Ion Slăniceanu. She received her primary education at the village school which will later bear her name. After high-school graduation she enrolled in Mihai Eminescu Literature Faculty at Bucharest University, but after one year she switched to medical school. In 1958 she graduated from Carol Davila Medical and Farmacy Institute (presently Carol Davila Medical and Farmacy University of Bucharest).
She married Dr. Mircea Radulescu and later on Dr. Petre Mincu. She had two sons: George Mihail Radulescu and Alexandru Ioan Mincu.
== Activitity ==
University instructor at the Public Health Department of the Medical and Farmacy University and manager at Stela Clinic
Later on, manager at Batistei Polyclinic, and manager at Ion Cantacuzino Hospital in Bucharest 
Chief Medical Doctor at Sector 2 Bucharest (1979-1983)
Physician and MD in Social Medicine and Public Health following dissertation: "Health Education for Youth" (thesis supervisor Prof.Dr. V. Coroi, UMF, 1977)
She promoted the health education in newspapers: Magazine Newspaper , Science and Technology , Woman Magazine, Sănătatea (Health), Luceafărul (magazine), and at Radio Romania broadcast station
She led the feminist movement in Romania. In 1992 she established the Romanian Women's National Confederation and she held the President position until 2008
In 1990 she established the "Carol Davila" Nursing College in Bucharest, a 3-year study school to educate Nursing in the following qualifications: nursing, pharmacy assistant, balneo-physical-kinetic therapy and health recovery
At Mioara Mincu's suggestion and the proposal of "Carol Davila" Nursing College, the Romanian Academy elected General Dr. Carol Davila as post-mortem member in 2003, 175 years from his birth.
Member of the Demographic Centre of World Health Organization, UNESCO and UNICEF bureau. Member of the Romanian Writer and Publicist Physicians' Society (Societatea Medicilor Scriitori si Publicisti din Romania - SMSPR).
In 1996 she began the construction of a Culture and Health Centre in Conțești, Dâmbovița, her native village.
Starting October 1993 she organized the annual festival called Rural Woman Day (Ziua Țărăncii])
== Published work ==
* Mincu, Mioara, Medical Editor (1986 București, Editura Medicală) - "Ballanced familly nutrition"
* Nicolae Crîngulescu, Coordonator, Mincu, Mioara, Prefață (2002 București Editura Carol Davila) - "Internal Medicine – Related Specialties and Palliative Care"
* Mincu, Mioara, Coord., Editor Științific ; Radu, Rodica, Editor (1997, București, Editura Corin) - "English course for medical education"
* Mircea Constantinescu Coord., Mincu, Mioara, Scientific Editor (București, Editura Universul) - "Surgery: manual for doctors and students of the College of Nursing"
* Mincu, Mioara Bratu, Doina (1996, București, Editura Corint) - "French Language Course for Medical Education"
* Mincu, Mioara, Mironescu, Elena (1994, București, Editura Alcor) - "Collections of tests – biology, organic and inorganic chemistry, botany and psychology"
* Mincu, Mioara Coordonator, Mihăilescu, Nicolae; Voichița, Victoria, (2000, București, Editura Universul) - "Collections of tests – biology, organic and inorganic chemistry, botany and psychology"
* Mincu, Mioara; Morariu, Letiția; Radu, Rodica (1998, București, Editura Corint) - "Dictionary of medical terms – Roman-English-French"
* Mincu, Mioara Coordonator (Editura Universul) - "Hygiene for Post-Secondary Sanitary Schools" 
* Chițimia, Elena, Mincu, Mioara Coord. și Constantinescu, Radu (1997, București, Editura Info-Team) - "Childcare and Pediatrics, Handbook for Post-Secondary Health Schools" 
* Mincu, Mioara; Dorian, Nadia; Albescu, Ioan Silviu; Albescu, Ruxandra, (1996, București, Editura Sofitech) - "German Language Course for Medical Education"
* Mincu, Mioara Coord.(2003, București, Editura Carol Davila) - "Handbook of Pediatrics, current affairs and tests"
* Mincu, Mioara, Coord.; Morariu, Letiția; Ivan, Măriuca (2000, Editura Universul) - "Theoretical and practical bases of care for healthy and sick people (nursing): manual for post-secondary health schools"
* Mincu, Mioara Coord., Firică Andrei; Streinu-Cercel, Adrian; Diaconu, Justin (2004, București, Editura Carol Davila) - "What young people need to know about their own health"
* Albu, Roxana Maria; Bistriceanu, Valeriu; Mincu, Mioara (Universul Publisher): "Human Anatomy and Physiology" 
* She published "Woman Health - 100 Questions and Answers" (2 tomes, Ed. Medicala); "Mondo Femina" (1992), a dictionary of famous women in Romania, work sponsored by Romanian Government to be sent through External Affair Ministry to all embassies (in 4 languages, 2 tomes); "Third Century Health", Carol Davila Publisher.
* After her death, the activity of the Nursing School Carol Davila and the Romanian Womens' National Confederation was continued by the "Mioara Mincu" Humanist Foundation established in 2009.
== Honors ==
* In 2012 Conțești, Dâmbovița village school was renamed "Școala Gimnazială cu clasele I-VIII Dr. Mioara Mincu" (Mioara Mincu grade I-VIII school).
* School year 2014-2015 was the start of Dr. Mioara Mincu Theoretical Highschool.
== Bibliography ==
* Ionescu, Cristian: Woman health in Romania in the European context, dialog with Mioara Mincu (2004, București, Editura Carol Davila)
* Pivniceru, Maruca: 
* Prof.dr.ing. Jinescu, Gheorghita, vicepresident CNFR: Mioara Mincu are vârsta faptelor ei (Mioara Mincu is the age of her own deeds) published in Revista Educație pentru Sănătate (Education for Health Magazine) no.1, pg. 12-14
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Category:2008 deaths
Category:1933 births
Category:People from Dâmbovița County