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Positive Health Innovation

Project overview

The "Positive Health Innovation" project is concerned with the development and evaluation of an intervention to promote patient-centred dialogue in GP practices. The potential of the Positive Health counselling concept developed in the Netherlands is to be analysed and further developed with a view to its application in German healthcare. To this end, health-promoting counselling sessions for patients receiving longitudinal care are to be tested using the Positive Health approach. Subsequent referral to psychosocial support or measures in the region will be facilitated where necessary.

Further information

  • Duration: 01.01.2025 - 31.12.2027
  • Funding: funded by the Innovation Fund of the Federal Joint Committee (G-BA) (FKZ: 01VSF24030)
  • Responsible: Institute of General Practice and Primary Care (iamag)
  • Consortium partners are the Institute of General Practice, University Medicine Duisburg-Essen (Prof. Dr Jürgen in der Schmitten); the Department of General Practice and Health Care Research, University Hospital Heidelberg (Prof. Dr Attila Altiner); the Institute of General Practice, Centre for Health and Society (ifam/chs); University Hospital Düsseldorf (Prof. Dr Stefan Wilm); the Institute for Medical Biometry and Epidemiology, Ruhr University Bochum (Prof. Dr Nina Timmesfeld) and the Institute for Health Care Economics and Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Cologne (Prof. Dr Stephanie Stock).
  • Co-operation partners: Positive Health international (Karolien van den Brekel, PhD); Dachverband Salutogenese e.V.; Ärztliche Qualitätsgemeinschaft EN-Mitte GmbH; Ärztenetz Essen Nord-West e.V.; Südpfalz DOCs Netzwerk junger Ärzte e.V.; Gesundheit aktiv e.V.; KV Westfalen-Lippe (KVWL); Positive Gesundheit Deutschland e.V.; BKK Dachverband e.V..
  • Further information on the project launch in the news.

Project management:

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Univ.-Prof. Dr. med.

Achim Mortsiefer

Head of Institute

Faculty of Health (School of Medicine)  |  Institute for General Practice and Outpatient Healthcare (iamag)

Chair Holder

Faculty of Health (School of Medicine)  |  Chair of General Medicine II and Patient Orientation in Primary Care

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58455 Witten

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