Health promotion courses – do more for your health!
More exercise, a healthier diet and coping with stress the right way will improve your feeling of well-being. BIG pays a share of the costs for prevention.
Courses subsidised by BIG
People who take proper preventive measures can delay the onset of lifestyle diseases but in many cases can even prevent them altogether. Do more for your health. We will support you and we subsidise two courses every year with up to 120 euro each for the following 8 areas:
BIG pays up to 120 euros for 2 courses every year.
- Improving lack of exercise with sport activities for health
- Preventing and reducing particular risks to health with appropriate exercise programmes oriented towards behaviour and health
- Preventing poor nutrition and nutritional deficiencies
- Preventing and reducing overweight
- Promoting skills in stress management
- Promoting relaxation
- Encouraging people to stop smoking
- Encouraging a healthy attitude towards alcohol/cutting alcohol consumption
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New guideline for health promotion
The guideline for health promotion for health insurance providers has been revised. The following changes were made as a result:
- Subsidies can be awarded for 2 courses a year, even two identical courses.
- It is no longer possible to repeat an identical course in the following year but only in the year after that, e.g. 2x Nordic walking in 2011, Nordic walking not allowed in 2012.
- Subsidies for children’s activities are only available after the age of 6.
Standard certificate of attendance
From 2012 a standard certificate of attendance is mandatory for all health insurance funds and course providers. Application for the subsidy is made as follows:
- Complete your certificate of attendance with your personal details and submit it to the provider of the health promotion course.
- Once the course is over, the provider will complete all the required details including signature and stamp.
- Send these to us in the original for approval of the subsidy.
