Promotional and Preventive Work
The Promotional and Preventive Work Unit
- monitors and studies mental health, substance use and addictions as well as related risk factors and protective factors
- monitors, studies, develops and assesses measures, policies and service systems that promote wellbeing, health and safety and prevent and reduce harms
- supports the promotional, preventive and harm-reducing work and its' management in municipalities and wellbeing services counties. This is done by providing information and solutions to improve the quality and effectiveness of the work.
Unit teams
- Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco
- Effectiveness of Preventive Work
- Gambling Harm
- Mental Health
Contact details
Thomas Karlsson
Head of Unit
tel. +358 29 524 7021
E-mail: [email protected]
Postal address
Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
Promotional and Preventive Work Unit
P.O. Box 30
FI-00271 Helsinki, Finland
