State Association for Health and Academy for Social Medicine Lower Saxony
The State Association for Health and Academy for Social Medicine Lower Saxony eV (LVG & AFS) is a non-profit, independent and nationwide professional association for health promotion, prevention and social medicine based in Hanover. The managing director is Thomas Altgeld .
aims
The aim of the association is to create a nationwide platform that enables a coordinated, topic and target group-specific approach in health care, promotion and prevention as well as in social medicine. Based on the current state of knowledge, new impulses for practice, research and politics are set, transparency is conveyed about existing offers and the occurrence of duplicate structures is avoided. The networking of key players at the state level is an essential core concern.
Organizational structures
The association consists of the association members, the board of directors and the full-time employees. The group of association members includes more than 70 actors from health, social and educational institutions as well as initiatives and individuals. You choose a board that reflects the breadth of the membership spectrum.
The office is interdisciplinary with experts from the fields of nursing and health sciences, psychology, pedagogy, sociology, gerontology, economics, health insurance, spatial planning and administration. Based on a holistic socio-ecological understanding of health, you work intensively with employees from a wide variety of institutions in the health, social, elderly, youth, education and environmental sectors.
The association's work is financed from state funds and other public funds at federal and EU level, project-related grants from other organizations, membership fees, participation fees and donations.
tasks
The tasks cover a wide range of different activities.
At the state level, the fields of action of prevention and health promotion are coordinated and central institutions, clubs, associations and initiatives in these areas are networked on a topic-specific basis. Another field of activity is the development and implementation of practical model projects and concepts for prevention, health promotion and health care. These are based on the topic approach, i.e. start in the environment of people where health is created and actively produced. In particular, the topics of day care center, school and university, company and municipality are of importance here.
The implementation of qualification offers for professionals and multipliers in the health, social and educational sectors is also one of the tasks of the LVG & AFS. They are offered in the form of congresses, specialist conferences or advanced training courses and address socio-medical issues and current topics in the field of health promotion. In addition, the LVG & AFS publicly addresses health by lobbying for a broader understanding of health within the meaning of the Ottawa Charter, creating information materials and publishing the specialist journal “Impu! Se für Gesundheitförderung” as well as other topic-specific newsletters.
Focus of work
The association is currently pursuing nine different focus areas:
Health promotion in education and training
One of their fields of activity is the support of educational and educational institutions to develop into health promoting institutions. In this way, framework conditions can be created for a healthy lifestyle for all learners, workers and the living in these institutions.
Age (s) and health
In a further field of work, the association deals with the effects of demographic change on society, health and nursing care structures and voluntary work. In this context, possible solutions are developed. The promotion of intergenerational dialogue is also an important task in this context.
Social situation and health
The focus here is on promoting equal health opportunities and on raising the specialist public's awareness of the interactions between the social situation and physical and psychological well-being.
Migration and health
The work focus “Migration and Health” was set up to support the intercultural opening of health and care facilities in Lower Saxony and thus to give people with a migration background better access.
Gender and health
The association also deals with the topic of gender and health by implementing measures for women and girls as well as men and boys and gender and health as a cross-cutting issue in all work areas.
Work and health
This field of work is dedicated to advising public administrations in order to support them in the development of company health management.
Health promotion in health care
The LVG & AFS supports health care institutions in the development of innovative health care and cooperation structures and the implementation of health promotion.
Evaluation and practical research
The field of evaluation and practical research deals with the investigation and optimization of structures, processes and results of interventions in prevention and health promotion.
Mental health
In the association, mental health is a cross-cutting issue to which the various work areas are dedicated.
history
The association was founded in 1905 as the "Main Association for People's Welfare" in Hanover. Initially, the focus of work was, for example, in the area of tuberculosis control (Wandertuberculosemuseum), housing advice in poor working-class neighborhoods and campaigns to promote breastfeeding. In addition, two children's sanatoriums for children from socially disadvantaged families have been in operation since 1922. This focus of work was the main activity of the main association for people's welfare until its dissolution in 1945. The association building was completely destroyed by an air raid in 1944 and after the war the association was approved again in 1948.
In the course of the two world wars, the state association was renamed frequently. In 1957 a fundamental reorientation took place, which was connected with the adoption of a new statute. Now the tasks of a state committee for health education have been taken over. This included preventive health care and the implementation of seminars for employees in the health sector. In 1991 the LVG was restructured again and renamed "Landesvereinigung für Gesundheit Niedersachsen eV" (LVG).
In order to better reach people interested in health topics, LVG Lower Saxony has published the magazine "impu! Se for health promotion" several times a year since 1993. The print run is now 8500 copies per issue.
From 1994, the topic of health promotion moved into the focus of activities, which was a fundamental innovation. The multiplier and network work was now given great importance. A characteristic of this was the establishment of working groups, for example the working group “Social Situation and Health” that was established in 1995. The LVG was the first of all national associations to address this issue.
With the reformulation of § 20 SGB V in 1996, health promotion was deleted from the catalog of services of the statutory health insurance companies. Health experts vehemently protested against this amendment, since health promotion could not be financed without cash assistance. In order to be able to put forward a counter-proposal and to anchor health promotion again in the statutory health insurance , the LVG Lower Saxony organized the 2-day initiative workshop "Health promotion, prevention and self-help as a future task of the statutory health insurance" in cooperation with the Federal Ministry of Health . The recommendations developed here with key players from the health system and health science were incorporated into the legislative procedure for the health reform in 2000, in the course of which prevention and health promotion were again included in the catalog of benefits of the health insurance companies. In 2008, the LVG Lower Saxony merged with the Academy for Social Medicine (AFS), which was an independent association to date. For 40 years this has been dedicated to the implementation of advanced training courses and scientific events in the field of social medicine, prevention and rehabilitation. The merger resulted in the current name of the association “Landesvereinigung für Gesundheit und Akademie für Sozialmedizin Niedersachsen e. V. ".
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. LVG & AFS Nds. e. V. Accessed September 23, 2013.
- ↑ a b c d Website of the LVG & AFS Nds. e. V. ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on September 23, 2013.
- ↑ a b c Altgeld, T. (2012): Environmental Justice - a still marginal field of action in health promotion at state level. In: Gabriele Bolte, Christiane Bunge, Claudia Hornberg, Heike Köckler, Andreas Mielck (eds.): Environmental justice. Equal opportunities in the environment and health: Concepts, data and perspectives for action, Verlag Hans Huber, Bern 2012, pp. 361–366 ISBN 978-3-456-85049-8 .
- ↑ "Impu! Se for health promotion" ( memento of the original from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Annual report 2012 of the LVG & AFS Nds. e. V. (PDF; 928 kB), accessed on September 24, 2013.
- ↑ a b c Altgeld, T. (2006): Diversity Management in Health Promotion. In: Thomas Altgeld, Bärbel Bächlein, Christiane Deneke (Eds.): Diversity Management in Health Promotion - Don't Just Address the Easily Accessible Target Groups !, Mabuse-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006, pp. 49–72 ISBN 3-938304-23 -5 .
- ^ Website of the LVG & AFS Nds. e. V. ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on September 23, 2013.
- ^ Altgeld, T. & Walter, U. (1997): Don't hesitate - innovate. Health promotion between utopia and reality. In: Thomas Altgeld, Ina Laser, Ulla Walter (eds.): How can health be realized? Health-promoting action concepts and social obstacles, Juventa Verlag, Weinheim and Munich 1997, pp. 13–22 ISBN 3-7799-1175-2 .
- ^ National Association for Health Nds. e. V. (1999): Initiative workshop: Health promotion, prevention and self-help as a future task of statutory health insurance - health policy perspectives, Hanover.
- ↑ Prümel-Philippsen, U. (2001): The new version of § 20 SGB V within the framework of the GKV Health Reform Act 2000: Status and Perspectives. Available at: http://www.weltgesundheitstag.de/pdf/2002paragraf20.pdf , last accessed: June 12, 2013
- ^ Website of the LVG & AFS Nds. e. V. ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on September 23, 2013.
