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Health education and health promotion are important aspects of the German public health service.

 
Explanatory notes on Guiding Concepts of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Glossary of concepts, strategies and methods in health promotion and Disease Prevention

Health promotion is a complex and interdisciplinary field of action. For a fruitful collaboration, all persons involved need to agree on shared technical terms, concepts and courses of action which overcome the thresholds of single professional disciplines. Without such shared understanding, misunderstandings are inevitable, and pursuing shared goals together is more difficult.

Hence, since 1993, the German Federal Centre for Health Education (German: Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung) develops and publishes a glossary of health promotion and disease prevention keywords. The glossary contains explanations of core concepts in the field and provides an integrated overview of current scientific and political debates on the topic in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

A growing demand for - and interest in - sharing scientific and practical knowledge and experiences across the borders of countries and languages arises from the advancing globalization and the “digital revolution” with its new ways to communicate. The Federal Centre for Health Education aims to encourage and facilitate this exchange and to make the interpretation of strategies, methods and concepts in German-speaking countries visible and comprehensible.

 
 

Therefore, in an initial phase, we provide English translations for 20 (out of ca. 120) recently revised and updated keywords in the German glossary. The selected keywords are unique in their interpretation and usage in German-speaking countries; in contrast, keywords in the German glossary which originate from English-speaking countries and are being used in a similar fashion in Germany (e.g., “social marketing”) were not selected for translation into English. The editorial team* takes account for the identification and naming of the German keywords, for the recruitment of authors and for the selection of the English keywords.

The glossary targets scholars as well as practitioners who are interested in drawing comparisons with German-language countries and are looking for stimuli and suggestions for their work. It also provides students and lecturers in the health sciences with orientation and studying aids or planning aids.

* Members of the editorial team are: Alf Trojan, Lotte Kaba-Schönstein, Peter Franzkowiak, Guido Nöcker, and Stephan Blümel

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The following Guiding Concept is only selected randomly!

Public Health Services and Health Promotion

Veronika Reisig, Joseph Kuhn

The public health service in Germany comprises all public institutions dealing with matters of (public) health and healthcare at the national, federal state and local levels. National level institutions include, for example, the Federal Ministry of Health as well as other federal agencies such as the Federal Centre for Health Education (BZgA), the Robert Koch Institute (infection control, epidemiology, health reporting) or the Paul Ehrlich Institute (vaccines). At the federal state level there are the individual Ministries of Health and Specialist Authorities or Institutes of Health. At the local level we find the  communal health authorities. In addition, there are a number of other agencies that are concerned with health and healthcare matters but are not generally subsumed in the term “public health services,” examples being food control or occupational health and safety authorities.

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Frequently selected Guiding Concepts

Initial and Further Education in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

 

Health Promotion and the Healthy / The Social City / The Perspective of Local Politics

 

Health Promotion and Migrant Backgrounds

 

Child Protection and Disease Prevention / Health Promotion

 

Health Promotion in Nursery Schools and Child Day-care Centres

 

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The Federal Centre for Health Education (BZgA) is a specialist authority within the portfolio of the Federal Ministry of Health.