Health & social system
Gesundheitsamt
Public health office
Not a place you go when ill. It runs the school-entry examination every child must pass before starting school, issues the certificates food and care work require, and handles notifiable disease.
What it does
- Communicable disease control
- Local public health duties
No counterpart recorded for France yet
We hold this body, but nothing has been verified as its equivalent in the other country. Ask for it and an editor will look.