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Media owner/publisher

Gesundheit Österreich GmbH (GÖG)
Stubenring 6
1010 Vienna
+43 1 515 61-0
infoplattform@goeg.at
Company register number: FN 281909y
Commercial Register Court: Commercial Court Vienna
UID-No.: ATU 62777178

Object of the company

The Austrian National Public Health Institute (Gesundheit Österreich GmbH, GÖG) is the institution responsible for researching and planning public healthcare in Austria, and also acts as the national competence and funding centre for the promotion of health. Set up by federal law on 1 August 2006, GÖG has the federal government as its sole shareholder, represented by the Ministry of Health. It is a public non-profit limited liability company fully owned by the Republic of Austria and is organised in three business units: the Austrian Federal Institute of Public Health (ÖBIG), the Federal Institute for Quality in Health Care (BIQG) and the Healthy Austria Fund (FGÖ). The GÖG works equidistantly, is active in a networking and coordinating capacity and is involved in key decision-making processes. Integrative, cross-sectoral and cross-professional approaches and perspectives characterize its projects, plans and work priorities.
Basic direction of the website: pflege.gv.at provides information about care and support in Austria. The information platform is aimed in particular at people who need care themselves or at family members who provide care. The information platform has several expansion stages.
The information on the Website are subject to a strict quality check. Unless otherwise stated, the texts are written by the project team and quality assured by experts from Gesundheit Österreich GmbH and the Ministry of Social Affairs. The texts are approved by Gesundheit Österreich GmbH.
pflege.gv.at only refers to quality-assured Websites linked. These are for example Websites

  • of the federal government,
  • of the countries,
  • of the municipalities,
  • of the cities or
  • of the social insurance institutions.

Copyright

The Layout and all content such as text, graphics and images used are protected by copyright. All rights reserved. The partial or complete use of content requires the prior approval of Gesundheit Österreich GmbH.

Liability

The content provided is without guarantee. No guarantee or liability is assumed for the accuracy, up-to-dateness and completeness of the information and services or for their availability. In particular, no legal claims can be derived from the use of the information and services accessed.
Without prejudice to efforts to minimize problems in the use of information and services, no warranty or liability is assumed for the complete and correct display or print reproduction or for the usability of downloadable files for the intended or stated purpose.
References (links) to information offered by third parties are placed by GÖG with due diligence. However, due to the dynamic nature of websites, it is not possible to continuously check all linked content. The accuracy, completeness and up-to-dateness of such information or the actual availability and freedom from malware of linked content are not within the sphere of influence of GÖG, which is why any warranty or liability in this respect is excluded.

Photos

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Accessibility

GÖG endeavors to ensure unrestricted access to information and services for all. In accordance with the quality standards set for pflege.gv.at, it strives to comply with the recommendations of the "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0", level AA, of the "World Wide Web Consortium" (W3C).
If information is not available to you, please contact infoplattform@goeg.at. The editorial team will endeavor to make this content available to you by other means.

Technical information

The technical implementation and operation of pflege.gv.at is carried out by the Information Technology and Data Competence Department of Gesundheit Österreich GmbH.
Please note that you will need a corresponding technical infrastructure or suitable software equipment to display and/or print some content. For example, certain content is provided as files in PDF format. The programs required to display or print these files, known as PDF readers, can be found on the Internet - sometimes free of charge.

The content was first published on 13.12.2021.

Last update: February 3, 2025