Working group advocates for a good start in life
Improving health-promoting living conditions in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district: This is one of the tasks that the district's specialist health service performs. But how exactly can the living conditions of citizens be shaped in such a way that they are conducive to health? In order to answer these and other questions, to derive and implement measures, the specialised service is developing a sustainable cooperation and management structure for health promotion and prevention. This structure also includes the working group "Growing up healthy", which met for the first time in December. This and other working groups - consisting of experts and stakeholders - will meet regularly from this year onwards to develop strategies for the different areas of life.
Paediatricians, midwives and representatives of many other organisations that are in contact with children and adolescents in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district now meet regularly in the "Growing up healthy" working group. The aim is to support the healthy growing up of all children and adolescents in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district - and that already from birth. "The working group enables an interdisciplinary cooperation of experts and persons with special proximity to children and adolescents. The participants make a decisive contribution to the design of health-promoting living conditions in order to support healthy development in the best possible way," explained Katharina Hillebrand, coordinator of health promotion and prevention from the specialist health service.
A good social environment, friends, healthy nutrition and exercise are only a few of the conditions that all those present believe are necessary for a child to grow up healthy. In a lively exchange with many different perspectives, various problem situations were identified and ideas were collected on how to reach children. "The measures to be developed should also relieve the health system in the long run," explained Head of Health Karl-Friedrich Frese. "Only with cross-administrative, interdisciplinary cooperation and a network capable of action can we meet various challenges that arise, among other things, due to our large district," Frese explained further.
The project is funded by the Federal Centre for Health Education (BZgA) with funds from the statutory health insurance funds within the framework of the SHI Alliance for Health (www.gkv-buendnis.de). For the life phases "living and working" and "getting older", regular working groups will also take place in the future. If you would like to participate in the working groups, please contact the project coordinator Katharina Hillebrand by e-mail (katharina.hillebrand@lkwafkb.de) or telephone (05631 954-598).
Caption: At the kick-off event of the working group "Growing up healthy", different experts and stakeholders exchange ideas in order to jointly create recommendations for action for better living conditions.