Who can get help at the Healthy Life Centre?
Anyone with a disease or increased risk of disease can receive support to change their lifestyle and manage their health challenges. Many who receive help from the Healthy Life Centre have multiple and complex health issues.
How to contact the Healthy Life Centre
You can contact the Healthy Life Centre in your municipality directly. Your GP, other healthcare professionals or NAV can also refer you. Contact your municipality if you are unsure if there is a Healthy Life Centre where you live. You can also check the Norwegian Directorate of Health's overview of municipalities with Healthy Life Centres (in Norwegian).
What the Healthy Life Centre can do for you
The Healthy Life Centre is a health-promoting and preventive municipal health service.
Healthy Life Centres offer services that can help you:
- become more physically active
- get a healthier diet
- quit snus or smoking
- strengthen your mental health
- get better sleep
In many municipalities, the Healthy Life Centres also offer courses in stress management (KiB) and depression management (KiD). Many Healthy Life Centres also offer help with managing risky alcohol consumption. Some Healthy Life Centres offer services for children and young people and their families.
The Healthy Life Centre bases its services on your needs and what you want to achieve. The Healthy Life Centre can help you find activities and services that suit you. They also help you set concrete goals and provide support to achieve what you have planned.
Guidance and follow-up take place both individually and in groups. The services offered by the Healthy Life Centre are part of the municipal learning and coping skills services.
The Norwegian Directorate of Health har more information about Healthy Life Centres (in Norwegian).
Video: Frisklivssentralen (in Norwegian)
Physical activity at the Healthy Life Centre
The Healthy Life Centre helps you to get started with physical activity. This is done through individual counselling and offers to participate in various groups. The group activities at the Healthy Life Centres offer versatile training and require little equipment. Everyone can join, regardless of physical fitness and function. The activities take place both outdoors and indoors. Emphasis is placed on the joy of physical activity and social companionship.
The Healthy Life Centre also helps you find suitable activities that you can keep doing after the follow-up at the Healthy Life Centre has ended.
You can download an Activity Diary from the Directorate of Health's website. This is a tool that can help you plan and carry out physical activity and exercise.
Exercise and physical activity
It is not necessary to exercise hard to get better health. Small touches in everyday life can be very important (in Norwegian).
Diet at the Healthy Life Centre
The Healthy Life Centre helps you improve your diet through individual conversations and courses (‘Bra Mat’ courses). During the course, you will be given practical advice on food choices and cooking. You learn to understand food labelling and can share experiences with others.
Dietary guidelines
The dietary guidelines describe what you should eat in order to stay healthy. Use the dietary guidelines as inspiration on how to put together a healthy diet that suits you.
Quit snus and smoking at the Healthy Life Centre
The Healthy Life Centre helps you quit smoking or using snus through individual guidance and courses. It can be easier to quit together with others.
There is no single answer to what is the best way of quitting. People who get help to quit tend to be more successful than people who try on their own.
Tips for quitting smoking
Do you want to stop smoking? Make it easier for yourself by being well prepared and using the various tools and aids available.
Tools and inspiration to change habits and manage your health
"Lev" (live) – a digital tool and inspiration to change habits (in Norwegian), is developed by the Norwegian Directorate of Health. "Lev" contains several digital tools that can help you change your lifestyle and manage health challenges.
Also, check the tool catalogue (in Norwegian). Here you will find safe, quality-assured apps, videos, and other health tools that can help you in your daily life.