[Prevention at the interface between politics and practice].

Disease prevention and health promotion can be understood as being complementary to each other in the context of stress reduction (disease prevention) and strengthening of resources (health promotion). This implies change. The desired improvement aims at personal behaviour, concomitant resources and conditions and political processes. In line with this aim, there is exchange and transfer at the interfaces science-practice, science-politics and politics-practice, which are often not successful. With reference to results of the working groups on practice transfer and policy transfer of the cooperation for sustainable prevention research, 10 theses are formulated for an effective transfer management. An explicit and explicitly funded transfer research in disease prevention and health promotion is advisable.