The goal of the program “teamw()rk for Health and Employment” (German: teamw()rk für Gesundheit und Arbeit; ehemals Verzahnung von Arbeits- und Gesundheitsförderung) is to reach unemployed people with sustainable preventive health measures in order to increase their chances to enter the labour market again.
Long term unemployment has been shown to be a health risk factor. Health-related limitations, in turn, complicate the integration into the professional world. With this nationally initiated program, health insurance companies, employment agencies and job centers want to break this negative cycle by cooperating with each other and by working together with municipal support facilities.
The Bavarian Association for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (German: Landeszentrale für Gesundheit in Bayern) represents the Bavarian statutory health insurances in this program and is thereby responsible for the following tasks:
- Leadership for the implementation of the program on behalf of the statutory health insurances
- Support and consultation of the participating program locations
- Initiation of local program management groups and representation of the statutory health insurances
- Coordination of networking on a state level and Bavarian representation on a national level
- Implementation of the organizational framework
The LZG currently supports sixteen Bavarian locations in their efforts to implement program measures and actions.
