Health promotion and communication

The municipal health promotion department designs and organizes various events to ensure that the population of Wiesbaden has easy and unbureaucratic access to medical, health-promoting and preventative information. These include the "Understandable Medicine" lecture series, the Hessian Health Days and the Patient and Psychiatry Day.

In addition, this department initiates campaigns and projects that affect individual age groups or settings (e.g. schools, workplaces) and have a positive influence on the health of citizens.

The department is active in various cross-city networks and is Wiesbaden's coordinator for the Healthy Cities Network.

The department is also responsible for coordinating the partial legalization of cannabis in Wiesbaden. Its responsibilities include establishing and maintaining cooperation and partnerships with regional and supra-regional health authorities and institutions in order to ensure coordinated implementation of the Cannabis Act and to guarantee health protection. In addition, scientific analyses of cannabis use in Wiesbaden are being planned.

Wiesbaden self-help contact point

In addition to the activities mentioned above, the Wiesbaden self-help contact point is also affiliated with the Health Promotion and Communication Department. The self-help contact point provides advice and support in the following areas:

• Information on the topic of self-help
• Referral to existing self-help groups
• Support and assistance in setting up new groups
• Advice for self-help groups
• Organizational support for self-help groups (e.g. arranging rooms, funding applications)
• Cooperation with specialists and speakers
• Public relations work around the topic of self-help, for example through events or advertising measures

Head of department: Christian Stettler