Our partners What is Stiftung Gesundheitswissen?
Stiftung Gesundheitswissen is a non-profit operative foundation. It provides information about health matters that helps people make informed decisions about their own health. The services provided by the foundation focus on answering health-related questions, preventing illnesses and promoting a healthy lifestyle. All information is evidence based, easy to understand and available free of charge. Stiftung Gesundheitswissen uses its own research to obtain data and findings on how health-related skills can best be conveyed and strengthened in a target-group-specific manner and in different areas of life.
Stiftung Gesundheitswissen services
Health education – information about healthy lifestyles and dealing with illnesses
Only those with the necessary knowledge can consciously lead a healthy lifestyle and be involved in making decisions in the event of illness. With its health portal, Stiftung Gesundheitswissen aims to help strengthen people’s health-related skills and therefore support the healthcare system. To this end, the foundation creates easy-to-understand health information in relation to specific questions, medical conditions and health promotion topics. The information furthermore provides guidance within the healthcare system. The health-related information considers users’ differing levels of prior knowledge and personal circumstances.
www.stiftung-gesundheitswissen.de
Healthcare services – strengthening patient sovereignty
Differences in the levels of knowledge held by patients on the one hand and doctors on the other make an informed and active involvement in the treatment process difficult. To balance out these differences, Stiftung Gesundheitswissen uses its medical practice initiative “Gesunde Sprechstunde” (“Healthy consultation”) to increase patient knowledge about medical conditions and treatment options as well as to help doctors provide comprehensible explanations of diagnoses and treatments. The foundation achieves this by creating materials for use during everyday medical practice life, specialist information and CME-certified e-learning courses, for example.
www.gesunde-sprechstunde.de
Health education – promoting health-related skills in schools
Health education at an early age creates an important foundation for improving and preserving people’s health on a lifelong basis. With its “Pausenlos gesund” (“Stay healthy”) initiative for schools, Stiftung Gesundheitswissen provides schools with teaching materials, e-learning courses, explanatory videos and much more. The range of topics covered is extremely broad, for example including information about healthy eating, exercise, media literacy and mental health. The materials are based on topics that pupils are familiar with during everyday life and the curricula used by the federal states.
www.pausenlos-gesund.de
