Medical Directorate – Public Health
Friedrichgasse 9, 8010 Graz
Phone: +43 (316) 877-3549
Fax: +43 (316) 877-3553
E-Mail: sanitaetsdirektion@stmk.gv.at
Do you wish to contact us or make a submission? Choose one of these options:
1. Submission of documents
Office of the Styrian Provincial Government
Department 8 Health and Care – Special Department Health and Nursing Management
Friedrichgasse 9, 8010 Graz,06.Bez.:Jakomini
Telefax: +43 (316) 877-3373
E-Mail: gesundheit@stmk.gv.at
2. Online forms
Land Steiermark offers online forms for the submission of various applications. For an overview of all forms, please see https://egov.stmk.gv.at/
3. Digital submissions
You can also contact us by electronic means (e-mail, fax or online form), but please note the technical requirements. Any matters submitted by electronic means outside our office hours will only be received and processed when our office staff resume work again. This means that the submission will be deemed to have been submitted and received only at that time.
1. Submission of documents
Office of the Styrian Provincial Government
Department 8 Health and Care – Special Department Health and Nursing Management
Friedrichgasse 9, 8010 Graz,06.Bez.:Jakomini
Telefax: +43 (316) 877-3373
E-Mail: gesundheit@stmk.gv.at
2. Online forms
Land Steiermark offers online forms for the submission of various applications. For an overview of all forms, please see https://egov.stmk.gv.at/
3. Digital submissions
You can also contact us by electronic means (e-mail, fax or online form), but please note the technical requirements. Any matters submitted by electronic means outside our office hours will only be received and processed when our office staff resume work again. This means that the submission will be deemed to have been submitted and received only at that time.
Tasks and responsibilities
- Sanitary and healthcare services, including preventive healthcare and healthcare quality management
- Infectious diseases - technical matters and sanitary supervision
- Direction of the Styrian Sanitary Council
- Ethics Committee of the State of Styria pursuant to the Austrian Medicinal Products Act (AMG) and the Austrian Medical Devices Act (MPG) (management, committee chair, committee member)
- Environmental medicine
Air (e.g. fine dust PM10) indoor and outdoor, odour, noise, ragweed and hogweed, soil, drinking water, waste water, waste/landfills, biogas plants, light immission, vibrations, electromagnetic fields (e.g. 380 KV line), bathing hygiene, heat protection, EU bathing sites, human biomonitoring, mould infestation, etc. - Provision of medical expertise for administrative procedures Driving licences, disability identity cards pursuant to Sec. 29b StVO (Austrian Highway Code), hunting fitness and firearms possession
- Sanitary supervision
Provision of medical expertise for the establishment and operating licence procedures of hospitals pursuant to the Hospitals Act (KALG), risk and quality management, patient safety; procedures pursuant to the Health Resort Act (HK) - Health Professions
Health fraud, medical professional matters, professional supervision of health professions, chairmanship of examinations for health professions by a committee - Various topics
Blood safety, pharmacy and drug safety, sports medicine examination centres, public health service (medical health officers, district and community physicians), effects of genetic engineering on health, radiation protection and prophylaxis, mortuary and funeral services, drug medicine, genetics and genetic engineering