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[Health Promotion and Disease Prevention - Results of the Working Group 6 of the Forum Future Public Health, Berlin 2016]. Gesundheitsförderung und Prävention. The increase in so-called lifestyle-related diseases emphasizes that focusing health care systems on the diseased population is insufficient to meet the challenges of population health. Instead, a proactive reorientation of health care structures towards more disease prevention, health promotion, and health protection is necessary. In addition to national institutions, municipal and non-governmental structures (public health services, health conferences etc.) play a central role in the implementation of such structural changes, as they are the societal organizations in direct contact with citizens.