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Staying healthy

Many illnesses can be avoided through preventive care or treated well through early detection. Here you will find an overview of the statutory health insurance schemes’ advisory and preventive care offerings, from vaccinations to cancer screening to dental check-ups. You will also find information about how to prepare yourself for serious situations through an advance care directive or a lasting power of attorney.

There are 64 services for Staying healthy

AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections Counseling

Information and advice on AIDS and sexually transmitted infections can be obtained from the competent authorities. The consultation is confidential, anonymous and free of charge...
Addiction counselling

Addiction is first and foremost a disease and requires treatment just like any other disease. In Lower Saxony, there are numerous addiction counseling centers that provide help....
Adolescent health examination

You can take advantage of health check-ups for your children. Thus, the general state of health and age-appropriate development of a child is regularly examined by a doctor....
Aid to Health Permit

Durch das Gesetz zur Modernisierung der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung (GKV-Modernisierungsgesetz - GMG) sind grundsätzlich alle nicht krankenversicherten Sozialhilfeempfänger...
Annual statement for insured persons and beneficiaries of the Künstlersozialkasse

If you are subject to compulsory insurance or entitled to subsidies through the Künstlersozialkasse, you will receive proof of your insurance for each year.
Apply for an electronic health card for persons with statutory health insurance

As a rule, you will receive your electronic health card (eGK) automatically from your health insurance company. If you have lost your eGK or if it is defective, apply for a new...
Apply for children's sickness benefit for those with statutory health insurance and transfer children's sickness benefit days to another parent

If you are unable to work due to your child's illness, you can receive child sickness benefit from your statutory health insurance company. Under certain conditions, you can...
Apply for exemption from co-payments in statutory health insurance

If you have paid more than 2 percent of your gross family income as statutory co-payments in the current calendar year, you can be exempted for the rest of the year. For the...
Apply for exemption from compulsory health insurance

If you become subject to compulsory health insurance, you can be exempted from this in certain cases. You submit the application to your statutory health insurance company.
Apply for family insurance in the statutory health insurance

If you have statutory health insurance, you can also insure your children and your spouse or partner free of charge under certain conditions. You submit the application to your...
Apply for health assistance

If you receive social assistance or basic security and have just had a baby, the social welfare office will bear the costs of counselling sessions.
Apply for infection protection instruction including certificate

If you produce, treat or place food on the market as a commercial or employed person, work in kitchens or mass catering facilities, you need a valid certificate from the health...
Apply for preventive medical benefits for insured persons of the statutory health insurance

Outpatient or inpatient care can help you avert imminent illness or need for care. You can apply for the preventive benefit from your health insurance company.
Applying for sickness benefit as an insured person

The sickness benefit is intended to compensate the insured person * for the loss of earnings. The duration and amount of sickness benefit are prescribed by law. In the event...
Assistance to health Authorisation for pregnancy and maternity

As a beneficiary of social assistance or basic social security, you will be supported by the social welfare office during pregnancy and maternity if you do not have health...
Bathing water quality monitoring

Bathing water is any section of surface water where the competent authority expects a large number of bathers and for which it has not issued a permanent bathing ban or does not...
Carrying out occupational health check-ups Authorization

For the medical monitoring of occupationally exposed persons in the field of radiation protection, doctors need authorization.
Carrying out school dental check-ups

Dental services promote the dental health of children and adolescents with age-appropriate programs
Changing the income estimate at the Artists' Social Security Fund

Your professional situation is changing in such a way that you expect a different income from your self-employed artistic or journalistic activity? Then you have to adjust your...
Choose or change statutory health insurance

You are free to choose and change your statutory health insurance company under certain conditions.
Compulsory insurance

Those who have a minor job earning less than EUR 450 are not subject to health insurance.
Dementia - Information options

Dementia - this diagnosis triggers frightening in those affected and relatives alike. Dementias are more than simple memory disorders. They affect the entire personality of man:...
Early detection examinations for children

You can take advantage of health check-ups for your children. Thus, the general state of health and age-appropriate development of a child is regularly examined by a doctor....
Electronic health card for refugees

Refugees can receive an electronic health card (eGK) in the first 15 months after their admission. As before, the scope of benefits is governed by the Asylum Seekers Benefits...
Examinations for dental, oral and maxillofacial diseases

The purpose of dental screening is to examine the teeth and oral cavity in detail in order to be able to detect and treat any dental, oral and maxillofacial diseases at an early...
Exemption from compulsory insurance in the event of marginal employment

Anyone who has a marginal job and earns less than 450 euros is not subject to health insurance.
Extension of the severely disabled pass

Since a new identification card in credit card format has been introduced since 01.01.2013, an extension of severely disabled passes may no longer be technically possible. When...
Family care leave

The family care time supports relatives in care cases in the family. Employees can take up to 24 months of partial leave.
Family care time Provision of information

With the family care leave, you have the opportunity to reduce your work to up to 15 hours per week for up to 24 months in order to care for a relative in need of care in a home...
Final subsidy statement of the Künstlersozialkasse

Subsidies that you receive from the Künstlersozialkasse will be finally settled in the following year.
Health insurance contribution

If you are studying, you will need health insurance - through family insurance or independently.
Health insurance contribution for students

If you are studying, you will need to take out health insurance - through family insurance or on your own.
Infection Control Advice

The Public Health Service will provide you with general information on certain infectious diseases, e.g.: What should you do in an emergency? What are the transmission paths?...
Infection Control Notification

The Infection Protection Act prescribes the reporting of certain pathogens as well as vaccine damage by doctors and laboratories.
Infection protection Report Doctors

The Infection Protection Act prescribes the reporting of certain pathogens by doctors.
Infection protection notification laboratories

The Infection Protection Act stipulates the reporting of certain pathogens by laboratories.
Inform the Künstlersozialkasse of the change of health insurance

If you have statutory health and long-term care insurance through the Künstlersozialkasse, you can change your health insurance company under certain conditions.
Measures for the detection and prevention of dental diseases for persons with health insurance Authorisation

Dental care serves to examine teeth and oral cavity in detail in order to be able to detect and treat possible dental, oral and jaw diseases at an early stage.
Medical Service / Youth Medical Service

The task of the Medical Service / Youth Medical Service is to protect and promote the health of children and adolescents. To this end, he works with day-care centres for...
Medical care for mothers and fathers with health insurance

Health insurance companies offer disease prevention services for mothers and fathers.
Medical officer

The competent authority is obliged to set up a specialised medical service for the performance of its public health service tasks. In Lower Saxony, all doctors who work in these...
Notify the Artists' Social Security Fund of the change in personal data

If your personal data changes, you must inform the Artists' Social Security Fund. You should also inform the Artists' Social Security Fund if your contact details are expanded.
Occupational health care during stays in the tropics

In the case of professional stays in tropical or subtropical areas, the employer is obliged to arrange for occupational health care.
Organ donation

Due to a serious illness or accident, you, a family member or a loved one may suddenly find yourself dependent on a life-saving organ or tissue transplant. In Lower Saxony...
Prenatal check-up

The health insurance company covers the costs of early detection examinations and tests necessary during pregnancy.
Prevention benefits for insured persons

Insured persons can inquire with their health insurance company about the possibilities of prevention. The health insurance companies provide quality-assured offers.
Receive compensation and suspend contributions to the artists' social security fund

If you are unable to work due to illness or pregnancy and receive money from another job, you may not be required to pay social security contributions through the Artists'...
Register social security for self-employed artists and publicists

Self-employed artists and publicists are compulsorily insured through the Künstlersozialkasse (KSK) in the statutory pension, health and long-term care insurance. To be...
Reimbursement of overpaid pension insurance contributions by the Künstlersozialkasse

If you pay too much into the pension insurance, you will receive a refund.
Report a pension to the artists' social security fund

Do you receive a pension from the statutory pension insurance? Then this will have an impact on your insurance status in the artists' social insurance.
Report changes in the professional situation to the Artists' Social Security Fund

If you are not only self-employed as an artist or journalist, but also carry out other activities or receive social benefits, you must report this to the Artists' Social...
Report your expected annual income to the Artists' Social Security Fund

If you are insured through the Artists' Social Security Fund, you must submit an annual income estimate.
Report your stay abroad to the Artists' Social Security Fund

If you stay or work abroad for a longer period of time, this can have an impact on your German social security. You must report a change in your situation to the Artists' Social...
Senior Counselling

Senior counselling can help with questions that arise with increasing age. Such questions can be: How can I live in the apartment in an age-appropriate way? How do I apply...
Senior citizens' and nursing homes in Lower Saxony

Since 01.01.2014 there has been a new senior policy advisory structure in Lower Saxony. The new counselling centres not only replace the previous form of senior citizens'...
Social assistance benefits as preventive health-related counselling

Persons without health insurance who only receive short-term subsistence assistance may be entitled to health assistance.
Social assistance benefits for children and young people at risk of development and disabilities

If you need help with your livelihood and do not have health insurance – statutory or private – the social welfare provider will provide health assistance. These include: ...
Submit a photo for the electronic health card

Did you provide your photo for the electronic health card (eGK) more than 10 years ago? Then your health insurance company may ask you to submit a new photo.
Subsidy for sickness insurance for pensioners of the Agricultural Old-Age Fund Approval

If you have voluntary or private health insurance, you can apply for a subsidy to your health insurance.
Vaccination: Advice

Vaccination is one of the most important measures to prevent diseases. For example, some diseases no longer occur or only very rarely, as the majority of people have been...
Vaccinations Financing

The statutory health insurance companies bear the costs for the vaccinations recommended by the Standing Committee on Vaccination (STIKO).
Workplace health promotion for people with health insurance

Health insurance companies offer services for occupational health care.
Youth counselling

Youth counselling can be perceived both as a task of youth work and in a youth, education and family counselling centre. In youth work Today, youth counselling sees itself more...
inform Künstlersozialkasse of the change of legal form or focus of activity

If you change the legal form of your activity or the activity itself, this may have an impact on your insurance obligation with the Künstlersozialkasse (KSK).

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