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Preventive healthcare and healthcare assistance; utilization of psychosocial assistance
The health authorities provide health advice. They provide information about support options for people with mental illnesses, addictions, chronic illnesses or disabilities or people who are at risk or endangered by these illnesses.
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Landratsamt Augsburg
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Prinzregentenplatz 4
86150 Augsburg
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86136 Augsburg
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The psychosocial counseling services offered by the health authorities are mainly provided by social education workers (but also by doctors). They aim to maintain and improve the health of disadvantaged, stressed or vulnerable citizens and to promote and protect older people.
The health authorities inform those affected about which persons, institutions and agencies can provide preventive, accompanying or aftercare assistance.
The public health service complements the existing help system in supporting mentally ill people. Advice is also given to people with an urgent need for help who, for example, have not yet reached the help system due to their individual situation. The psychosocial help provided by the public health service does not treat directly, but supports, informs, mediates, motivates and de-escalates.
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Art. 7 Gesetz über den Öffentlichen Gesundheitsdienst (Gesundheitsdienstgesetz – GDG)Aufklärung, Information, Prävention
Status: 14.05.2025
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