Swiss Federal Offices of Public Health

April 27, 2016

Organization Type:

Government Agency

"The overriding aim of the FOPH is to promote and maintain the good health of all people living in Switzerland. On the one hand, it seeks to promote people’s awareness and thereby enable them to take responsibility for their own health. On the other, it wants a general and consistent improvement of everyone’s health through health promotion, disease prevention and health protection campaigns and the curing of illnesses and alleviation of suffering caused by disease and accidents."

Keywords:

addiction; alcohol; diseases; drugs; educational; health policy; health promotion; hiv/aids; learning; military; nutrition; physical activity; sexually transmitted diseases (std's); smoking