BEISPIELTEXT: The program "Healthy Districts" has been in existence since 2010. It is continuously being developed and expanded to cover all districts in Vienna. Currently, the implementation is taking place in the following districts: Leopoldstadt, Landstraße, Wieden, Margareten, Mariahilf, Alsergrund, Simmering, Favoriten, Meidling, Penzing, Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus, Ottakring, Hernals, Währing, Döbling, Brigittenau, Floridsdorf, Donaustadt, and Liesing. "Healthy Inner City," "Healthy Neubau," "Healthy Josefstadt," and "Healthy Hietzing" will be implemented starting from the end of 2024. Together with the district offices and in cooperation with partner institutions, the central focuses of "Healthy Adolescents in the Neighborhood" and "Healthy Neighborhoods" are being emphasized. Under the title "Experience Health - Simply Participate!" there are interactive offerings related to the thematic focuses of Viennese Health Promotion - WiG. These offerings are accessible to all district residents.
BEISPIELBILD
Involved Actors & Resources
| Governmental body: yes/no | yes |
| if yes, explain by filling in the name(s) of the governmental body; | district management/district mayors |
| Other public actors: yes/no | yes |
| if yes, explain by filling in the name(s) of the public actors and describe which sector and explain their role, briefly: | WiG Wiener Gesundheitsförderung (i.e., Viennese Health Promotion) (program management), Caritas Neighborhood and District Work (subcontractor); cooperation partners: district management (i.e., Bezirksvorstehung) and Area Renewal Offices (i.e., Gebietsbetreuung) of involved districts, wohnpartner (i.e. community work in social housing ), Municipal Department 17 (Integration and Diversity), police, queraum (distribution of fundings mentioned in 1.3.7) |
| Private for-profit actors: yes/no | yes |
| If yes, explain by using types of private for-profit actors such as public engagement consultants, companies etc.; | cooperation partners for location of traveling exibithion: shopping centers (SCN, Stadion Center), grocery market (Meiselmarkt), hospital (UKH Lorenz Böhler) |
| Private not-for profit actors: yes/no | yes |
| If yes, explain by using types of private not-for-profit actors such as associations, informal networks etc.; | Cooperation partners: Juvivo/Kinderfreunde (associations for children and youth work), Mobility Scouts (association for mobile care for disabled people), Das Band (asscociation for supported employment and housing), Piramidops (social counseling for migrant women) |
| Civic actors: yes/no | yes |
| if yes, explain on the heterogeneity of the participants with respect to gender, age, educational qualification, place of residence etc. | gender: about 2/3 of the participants were identified as women, 1/3 had migrant background; age: about 1/2 of the participatns were adults of working age (20-59 years), 1/3 were elderly people (60+) and 1/5 were kids and teenagers; place of residence: all people living in the neighborhoods of 2nd, 5th, 6th, 10th, 15th, 16th, 20th, 21st, 22nd district in Vienna educational qualification: n.a. |
| Other actors: yes/no | no |
| If yes, explain | n.a. |
| Funding/financial resources for the particular best practice example | WiG-Grätzel (i.e., neighborhood) initiative and cooperation initiatives (funding amount of €300 and €3,000 respectively) were used as an instrument for residents and facilities in the districts to implement smaller health-promoting measures; |
| If yes, specify e.g. amount of funding/year | the total funding of the programme was €360.000 for 3 years, each district had a certain ammount of funding (€38.025 personnel costs and €1.975 material costs) |
Type of Governance
| Participatory process: yes/no | yes |
| Deliberative process: yes/no | no |
| Other forms: if yes, specify; | n.a. |
| Top-down | no |
| Bottom-up | no |
| Others: if yes, specify | mixture of bottom-up and top-down. The workshops were created based on a bottom-up survey of demand stakeholder workshop |