[CINDI (Countrywide Integrated Noncommunicable Diseases Intervention) in Germany. A model for life style oriented, medical primary care for the population].

The WHO project "CINDI" (Country-wide Integrated Noncommunicable Diseases Intervention) is being implemented in 23 European countries and in Canada. The central goal of this project is the development of across-country strategies to combat chronic diseases caused by unhealthy lifestyles. The more Europe grows together the more it will be necessary to have such strategies. The health sector of the individual countries is shaped by cultural and/or civilizatory conditions. Such a strategy has to account for the country's specific shape of the health sector and the experience made in this point has to result in the establishment of structures and the creation of measures across Europe and worldwide. In the first step, members of the CINDI family are to ascertain country specific informations which in the second step should be used for the development of the strategy. The paper refers to the contribution made so far by CINDI Germany with regard to the first step. The "3 Level Conception of Family Physicians"-recommended by the Society of physicians of Germany the model "Community - related behavioural medicine" - which has been developed to put the above mentioned conception into practice - and quality assurance in the framework of medical primary care from the focus of the paper.