Medical Directorate – Public Health
Friedrichgasse 9, 8010 Graz
Phone: +43 (316) 877-3549
Fax: +43 (316) 877-3553
E-Mail: sanitaetsdirektion@stmk.gv.at
Tasks and responsibilities
- Sanitary and healthcare services, including preventive healthcare and healthcare quality management
- Infectious diseases - technical matters and sanitary supervision
- Direction of the Styrian Sanitary Council
- Ethics Committee of the State of Styria pursuant to the Austrian Medicinal Products Act (AMG) and the Austrian Medical Devices Act (MPG) (management, committee chair, committee member)
- Environmental medicine
Air (e.g. fine dust PM10) indoor and outdoor, odour, noise, ragweed and hogweed, soil, drinking water, waste water, waste/landfills, biogas plants, light immission, vibrations, electromagnetic fields (e.g. 380 KV line), bathing hygiene, heat protection, EU bathing sites, human biomonitoring, mould infestation, etc. - Provision of medical expertise for administrative procedures Driving licences, disability identity cards pursuant to Sec. 29b StVO (Austrian Highway Code), hunting fitness and firearms possession
- Sanitary supervision
Provision of medical expertise for the establishment and operating licence procedures of hospitals pursuant to the Hospitals Act (KALG), risk and quality management, patient safety; procedures pursuant to the Health Resort Act (HK) - Health Professions
Health fraud, medical professional matters, professional supervision of health professions, chairmanship of examinations for health professions by a committee - Various topics
Blood safety, pharmacy and drug safety, sports medicine examination centres, public health service (medical health officers, district and community physicians), effects of genetic engineering on health, radiation protection and prophylaxis, mortuary and funeral services, drug medicine, genetics and genetic engineering