CHECK Magazin - Gesundheitsmagazin für Männer No.9
Alkoholmissbrauch und dessen Folgen sind die zweithäufigste Ursache für Krankenhausbehandlungen in Deutschland. Mehr als 150 internistische, neurologische und psychiatrische Diagnosen werden mit Alkoholmissbrauch assoziiert. Doch eine Gruppe fällt beim Thema Alkoholkonsum besonders auf: Queere Menschen, darunter insbesondere schwule und bisexuelle Männer.
Alkoholmissbrauch und dessen Folgen sind die zweithäufigste Ursache für Krankenhausbehandlungen in Deutschland. Mehr als 150 internistische, neurologische und psychiatrische Diagnosen werden mit Alkoholmissbrauch assoziiert. Doch eine Gruppe fällt beim Thema Alkoholkonsum besonders auf: Queere Menschen, darunter insbesondere schwule und bisexuelle Männer.
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Advertorial<br />
ENGLISH<br />
DIVERSITY IN CARE –<br />
at Tertianum Care this is part of everyday life.<br />
The mobile nursing service Tertianum Care from Berlin has just signed the “Charta der<br />
Vielfalt” (Charter of Diversity). In addition to diversity-sensitive care, the company is making<br />
a strong statement with this voluntary commitment to an appreciative and unprejudiced<br />
working environment. As early as 2020, Tertianum Care was one of six companies in<br />
Germany to receive the "Lebensort Vielfalt®" seal, the seal of quality of diversity.<br />
Tertianum Care signed the voluntary commitment<br />
"Charter of Diversity" for more diversity in<br />
the workplace and thus joined more than 4,000<br />
companies in Germany. From small businesses<br />
to global corporations – the charter has changed<br />
the working lives of millions of employees. Apart<br />
from the obvious aim to improve the employee’s<br />
lives, having an appreciative and unprejudiced<br />
working environment also can benefit the<br />
company as:<br />
• diversity helps to compensate for the<br />
shortage of skilled workers.<br />
• new target groups and markets can be<br />
developed with a diverse workforce.<br />
• mixed teams produce better solutions<br />
and more innovative products.<br />
Diversity has many dimensions: age, ethnic origin<br />
and nationality, gender and gender identity,<br />
physical and mental abilities, religion and belief,<br />
sexual orientation and social background.<br />
Why is diversity in the team and<br />
among the clients so important?<br />
The diversity of people, lifestyles, and ways of<br />
life also require diversity-sensitive care, but until<br />
2018 no nursing service in Berlin had offered<br />
this. People often experienced an insensitive<br />
handling of their identity – they were in need but<br />
not helped. Tertianum Care has recognized this<br />
deficit and integrated diversity as a core value<br />
in the company philosophy and in the corporate<br />
mission statement. Since then, all employees<br />
have lived this goal together with the people<br />
“We focus on people – the clients as well<br />
as employees. Sensitivity, empathy and<br />
humanity make our job something special.<br />
We don’t just convince with words,<br />
but actions. The Charter of Diversity<br />
unites a community with one goal: to<br />
create a climate of mutual respect and<br />
trust. This will have a positive impact on<br />
our organisation and on society.“<br />
Inken Albrecht,<br />
Geschäftsführerin Tertianum Care<br />
to be cared for. The signing of the "Charter of<br />
Diversity" and the certification as a "Lebensort<br />
Vielfalt®" for the successful integration of sexual<br />
and gender minorities (an award from the Berlin<br />
Schwuleberatung, which is funded by the PKV<br />
and the German AIDS Foundation) are important<br />
building blocks and at the same time a signal for<br />
those inside and outside.<br />
The Tertianum Care Team deals openly with the<br />
individual biographies of employees and clients<br />
and is trained in LGBTI-sensitive care. Signing<br />
the Diversity Charter is a step towards living diversity<br />
in day-to-day working life. The Tertianum<br />
Care team is convinced that demographic and<br />
social change can only succeed if the existing<br />
diversity is recognised, promoted, and used.<br />
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