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Area: Medicine

Prevention & early detection

Spot problems before they turn into absences.

Position
Field 8 of 10
Area
Medicine
Funding
Structural
Measures
8 in the library

What it's about

Prevention and early detection run through the occupational-health service: health check-ups, vaccination campaigns, eye and hearing tests, screenings. They bring health to where many would otherwise not take care of it — to the workplace.

Why it pays off

Many illnesses can be treated cheaply early and expensively late. Low-threshold prevention at the company significantly increases participation, reduces severe courses of illness and signals genuine care.

Measures for Prevention & early detection

Prevention and early-detection measures for the company:

The Health Day That Actually Works

The most visible BGM event of the year – dosed correctly: a focused health day with preventive care offerings has a stronger impact than an overloaded program.

multi-daywith budget

Health Screening

In Germany, preventive care often fails not for lack of awareness but for lack of an easy path. Anyone who has to arrange their own doctor's appointment for bl…

multi-daywith budget

Upfit Holistic Prevention Program (Nutrition & Exercise)

Holistic digital prevention program for employees: the program combines a twelve-month nutrition coaching plan via the Upfit app with a certified online exerci…

under 30 minunder €100
0 € · free

Smoke-Free Support

Quitting smoking is one of the most effective health decisions a person can make – and one of the hardest to carry out alone. Workplace support measurably chan…

under 30 min

Flu Vaccination Campaign

Flu waves cost companies in Germany millions every year through absenteeism – and a significant share of these losses is avoidable. The workplace flu vaccinati…

half a dayunder €100

First Aid Refresher

Basic first-aider training is mandatory. What happens afterward is often forgetting. The refresher picks up where the original training left off – with what ha…

half a dayunder €100
0 € · free

Health Newsletter

Internal communication in a BGF context is often either too infrequent or too boring. The health newsletter is neither — if it's done right: compact, relevant,…

half a day

Heat Protection Measures

Heat waves are becoming more frequent, longer, and more extreme — and employers are obligated, both legally and as a matter of basic decency, to protect their …

half a dayunder €100

Where do you stand on Prevention & early detection?

The 5-minute self-check places you across all 10 fields of action.

BGF-Kompass covers German workplace health promotion (BGF): funding paths, figures and legal references (e.g. § 20b SGB V, § 3 No. 34 EStG, the statutory-health-insurer prevention guidelines) apply to Germany.