A QUALITY CULTURE FOR HEALTH PROMOTION

Quality and quality management are omnipresent as notions in the daily life of projects but there exists neither a clear conception nor a ho mogeneous quality understanding. This expresses the fact that a critic al and self-reflecting project culture is not rooted strongly enough. A good project and quality management is indispensable to optimize the goal attainment. Up to now, however; concrete implementations as far as quality improvement in the daily lift of projects is concerned, wer e lacking. This article shows the necessity of health promotion being confronted with quality and what can be gained by that. It presents a project of the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine of the Univ ersity of Zurich in which quality promotion is specifically put into p ractice. in cooperation with project leaders, instruments for a qualit y management are being developed and tested which support and steer th e constant process of quality promotion.