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  • 22.04.2013

    Greater policy orientation for promoting health and welfare

    Eeva Ollila "Finnish health policy-making is supported by an extensive knowledge base and high level of expertise in epidemiology. We also know a lot about the sorts of measures and policies that would produce better health and health equality," explains Ministry for Social Affairs and Health ministerial advisor Eeva Ollila.
  • 09.04.2013

    Need to improve the identification of potential organ donors

    Jaakko Yrjö-Koskinen In Finland, as in many other countries, there is a dearth of suitable human organs for transplantation. Despite legislative reform in 2010, the number of transplants has not increased as had been hoped. The main obstacle is the failure to identify every potential organ donor, explains Jaakko Yrjö-Koskinen, Ministerial Counsellor on health and medical affairs at the MSAH.
  • 11.03.2013

    Big welfare differences between immigrant groups

    Viveca Arrhenius The numbers of immigrants in Finland have grown rapidly in the last couple of decades. In 1990 there were just 26 000 foreign nationals living in Finland, but by 2011 there were 183 000.
  • 25.02.2013

    Stringent checks provide for safe vaccine use

    Taneli Puumalainen Finland's national vaccination programme provides immunization against 11 diseases. The content of the vaccination program is always the outcome of a lengthy and complex evaluation process. "The selection criteria are essentially threefold," explains Chief Medical Officer at the MSAH Taneli Puumalainen. "The preventable disease burden must be significant, the vaccine must be sufficiently safe and the financial investment must be acceptable in proportion to the health benefits."
  • 06.02.2013

    Health care across EU borders

    Pasi Mustonen From the beginning of 2014 at the latest EU citizens will be entitled to receive health care from any EU country. This is in line with a EU directive on the application of patient rights in cross-border health care. In Finland the reform has been the subject of much debate in anticipation of its likely impacts, according to MSAH Ministerial Adviser Pasi Mustonen and Senior Officer Noora Heinonen.
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