Social Work – Focus on Health Promotion and Prevention

The Kempten University of Applied Sciences has developed two new courses in the field of Health and Generations that train urgently needed specialists, not least for the Allgäu health region. Keeping people healthy until old age is an individual and at the same time social task that does not only affect the older generation. It begins before birth and runs through life. Every phase of life and every area of ​​life holds special opportunities and risks. Reducing the risks and seizing the opportunities is not the sole task of medicine and health professionals, but also a core area of ​​social work. The promotion of health and the prevention of diseases are a cross-sectional task of social pedagogical action - both in the field of health-related social work and in fields that at first glance are not related to health. Social work also reaches people outside the health care structures, even when there is (still) no illness. This requires qualified socio-pedagogical staff who understand health as a cross-sectional task and have the appropriate skills. The Kempten University of Applied Sciences has therefore set up a bachelor's degree in social work with a focus on health promotion and prevention.

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