Capacity Building for the Implementation of Health Promotion in Austrian Schools

This article examines the possibilities for schools to develop relevant resources needed for the implementation of health promotion as well as the support provided by key actors on the provincial school level. Eleven qualitative interviews were conducted with school representatives and eighteen qualitative interviews with health promotion actors were undertaken in the respective provinces. As a result, the schools identified seven spheres of activity and five activity spheres could be traced back to the health promotion actors, in which the key actors stressed the importance of the required measures needed to implement health promotion. Both levels - school and provincial - can be understood as social systems that work logically and follow their own set of aims. However, when the spheres of activity of both the school and provincial levels are compared, a slight deviation in the logic of both systems becomes evident.