and health promotion can only succeed if they focus on people who are actually concerned. “Healthy Start” focuses on pregnant and young mothers and on their families. It is essential that these people can make the right choices for themselves and for their child. This requires the proper way of addressing people while making use of existing public state structures and multipliers who actually reach people with uniform and clear calls to action. This requires conditions that allow and empower people to act accordingly. The appropriate instrument to make this possible lies in active network structures which effectively interconnect all relevant actors. The usefulness and meaningfulness of networks is revealed not just with “Healthy Start,” but in other stages of life as well. However, it is also true that the sooner we start, the better. My wish for this congress was to build such networks to fight all forms of malnutrition successfully. We are all affected and are all in the same boat.
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