healthy and active ageing - EuroHealthNet's Healthy Ageing Website
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Authors:<br />
A report produced by EuroHealthNet<br />
(Ingrid Stegeman, Terese Otte-Trojel,<br />
Caroline Costongs <strong>and</strong> John Considine)<br />
for Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche<br />
Aufklärung (BZgA) incorporating<br />
work undertaken by Thomas Altgeld,<br />
L<strong>and</strong>esvereinigung für Gesundheit<br />
und Akademie für Sozialmedizin<br />
Niedersachsen e. V. <strong>and</strong> Judith<br />
Sinclair-Cohen.<br />
Brussels, January 2012<br />
The Federal Centre for Health Education (BZgA) (www.bzga.de) is<br />
an authority working in the portfolio of the Federal Ministry for Health in<br />
Germany, based in Cologne. It was established in 1967 as a governmental<br />
institute with the aim of preserving <strong>and</strong> promoting human health <strong>and</strong> was<br />
assigned the following tasks:<br />
• Development of principles <strong>and</strong> guidelines on the contents <strong>and</strong><br />
methods of health promotion, prevention <strong>and</strong> health education<br />
• Coordination <strong>and</strong> strenthening of health<br />
promotion <strong>and</strong> prevention in Germany<br />
• Planning, implementation <strong>and</strong> evaluation<br />
of prevention campaigns<br />
• Development <strong>and</strong> implementation of training<br />
programmes <strong>and</strong> instruments<br />
• International co-operation (WHO, EU).<br />
EuroHealthNet (www.eurohealthnet.eu) is a not for profit organisation<br />
networking public bodies working in the fields of health promotion, public<br />
health, disease prevention <strong>and</strong> health determinants – the factors behind<br />
good or ill health. EuroHealthNet comprises of national <strong>and</strong> regional<br />
bodies working on policy, research <strong>and</strong> implementation approaches which<br />
contribute to improving health, wellbeing <strong>and</strong> equity between <strong>and</strong> within<br />
all the countries that are members of or associated with the European<br />
Union.
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