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National Forum of Switzerland

Official Name:
Schweizerisches Forum für Betriebliche Gesundheitsförderung (SFBGF) - Forum Suisse pour la Promotion de la Santé dans l'Entreprise (FSPSE) - Foro Svizzero per la Promozione della Salute nelle Azie
 
Internet:
www.svbgf.ch
 
Founded:
Planned for autumn 2004
 
Objectives:

• Bundling and connecting up initiatives and activities that contribute to the health, capacity and motivation of the working population.
• Building of a supportive structure for the development, dissemination and implementation of WHP as an enterprise strategy with examples of good practice.
• Promoting WHP through its health and economic benefits.
• Dissemination of results of WHP research into practice.
• Exchange of opinions and experiences of WHP.

Structure:
The forum shall be open for every national organisation whose mission includes the health, capacity and motivation of the working population in some way. It should be a flexible and autonomous organisation with its own legal identity. Invited partners will be representatives of governmental departments and national foundations, of the organisations of the social partners, social and private insurances, professional societies, universities, the private Swiss Association for Workplace Health Promotion SAWHP and others. In the member sections of the SAWHP are enterprises that commit themselves to the quality criteria of WHP as defined by the ENWHP and that offer services to their clients to achieve their goals.
 
Working Methods:
The forum is expected to meet several times per year to present the results of present and planned projects in workshops. Common fields of activity will be identified, proposals for new cooperative projects will be made and overcoming possible obstacles will be discussed. The working procedures and the results of the forum activities will be continuously evaluated.

An annual "Forum Congress for WHP" will be held.
 
Cooperation Partners:
Swiss State Secretariat for Economic AffairsHealth Promotion Switzerland (National Foundation)

Priorities:
"Ageing workforce": One of the main goals is to integrate the currently high number of working persons over 45 years of age longer and better into the process of work by preserving and promoting their health, workability and employability.

"Work-Life-Balance": Switzerland also currently has one of the highest rates of working women with children of pre-school or school age within Europe and the longest working hours. The conditions for the compatibility of family and work should be improved.
 
Adress/Contact:
Health Promotion Switzerland
Chantale Merz
WHP Project manager
Dufourstrasse 30
CH 3005 Bern

Phone: +41 31 350 04 04
E-mail: chantale.merz@promotionsante.ch
www.gesundheitsfoerderung.ch/