[A quality culture for health promotion!]

Quality and quality management are omnipresent as notions in the daily life of projects but there exists neither a clear conception nor a homogeneous quality understanding. This expresses the fact that a critical and self-reflecting project culture is not rooted strongly enough. A good project and quality management is indispensable to optimize the goal attainment. Up to now, however, concrete implementations as far as quality improvement in the daily lift of projects is concerned, were lacking. This article shows the necessity of health promotion being confronted with quality and what can be gained by that. It presents a project of the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine of the University of Zurich in which quality promotion is specifically put into practice. In co-operation with project leaders, instruments for a quality management are being developed and tested which support and steer the constant process of quality promotion.