SucheChild and Youth Health
Growing up healthily
Essential, health-relevant behavioural patterns develop in childhood and youth that are of decisive importance in adult life. Many health disorders in young years become risk factors for serious illnesses in later life. The promotion of child and youth health is therefore a priority task of far-reaching importance.
The Federal Institute of Public Health´s measures and programmes are aimed not only at children and young people themselves, but also at parents, educators, teachers, community workers and other multipliers. The materials and projects are developed on the basis of the latest research findings, adapted to specific target groups and regularly evaluated. The accompanying quality assurance measures ensure that media and programmes are constantly updated, and new ones developed if and when necessary.
The Federal Institute of Public Health´s holistic, life-accompanying concept for promoting the health of children and young people caters to the complex interplay of personal and social factors. The measures are geared to the different situations of children and young people in life. They consider individual behaviour and equally the respective framework conditions. After all, knowledge, attitudes and health-oriented behaviour can only develop and permanently establish themselves in the first place if the living conditions as a whole, and similarly the specific settings, have health-promoting structures. In this context, the promotion of equal opportunities is a cross-sectional task in all measures.
In its current projects, the Federal Institute of Public Health communicates health-related knowledge with the additional aim of improving the skills of child-raisers as regards promoting the healthy development of children and identifying potential disruptive factors. An extensive catalogue of information media is available here. The healthy development of children is dealt with not only in a wide range of brochures, but especially on the Internet portal at www.kindergesundheit-info.de.
Internet Offerings
www.kindergesundheit-info.de
This is the Internet portal of the Federal Institute of Public Health dealing with children’s health and development. Parents and professionals can find a host of information on children’s healthy development here. In addition to basic information on each topic, there are numerous practical tips, answers to frequently asked questions, further links and much more. Professionals who deal with children in their daily work can consult the "For Professionals" section, where they can find fundamental information and background knowledge relating to issues of children’s development.
www.j1-info.de
The youth health check-up (J1) is a preventive measure giving young people between the ages of 12 and 14 the opportunity to be examined and advised by a paediatrician, general practitioner or internal specialist. The consultation offers the young people the opportunity to ask questions and raise issues that interest and occupy them.
