title: Health promotion for unemployed jobseekers: new developments in Germany.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The objective of the paper is to present findings from a health promotion programme for long-term unemployed older job seekers in Germany and to discuss conditions for successful linking health and employment promotion.
  
  
  METHODS
  Implementation analysis: interviews with actors who implemented the programme and case studies of job centres where the programme took place.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Health promotion with labour market programmes is possible, but requires (a) agreements and coordination between different branches of social security, (b) an enlargement of the dominant activation paradigm in labour market policy with a stronger emphasis on voluntary programme participation, (c) skills and competencies of the staff in job centres as well as an adapted work organization.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Efforts to connect health and employment promotion and to induce the related social security's to cooperation are still in their infancy. Further practical steps as well as research and evaluation are necessary to bring these areas together.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Work, Skills and Training, University of Duisburg-Essen, 47048 Duisburg, Germany. Electronic address: martin.brussig@uni-due.de.
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brussig
authors.affiliation: Institute of Medical Sociology, Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Universitätsstr. 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany. Electronic address: dragano@med.uni-duesseldorf.de.
authors.forename: Nico
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Dragano
authors.affiliation: Institute for Work, Skills and Training, University of Duisburg-Essen, 47048 Duisburg, Germany. Electronic address: sarah.muemken@uni-due.de.
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mümken
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration*; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006801:Humans; D007348:Insurance, Health; D008297:Male; D012050:Rehabilitation, Vocational; D012946:Social Welfare; D014478:Unemployment
keywords: Health promotion; Labour market programmes; Social insurances; Social security; Unemployment