Knowledge Management and Co-Creation

The Knowledge-Based Management and Co-Creation Unit supports the municipalities and providers of health and social services in their provision of effective and non-discriminatory services using methods based on co-creation, evaluation and knowledge-based management.

The unit monitors and evaluates the promotion of well-being and health and produces health and well-being information in order to support planning, development and decision-making at the local, regional and national level. 

The tasks of the unit include

  • Supporting the implementation of the Future health and social services centre programme and the Live-at-Home Technology for the Elderly (KATI) programme 
  • The implementation of the Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) toolkit and supporting co-creation work and aggregation of RAI-benchmarking data
  • TOIMIA network and database
  • School Health Promotion Study 
  • TEAviisari – a tool for benchmarking health promotion capacity 
  • The FinLapset survey and register 
  • Assessment of the social welfare and health care service system 

Unit teams

  • Health and Social Service System Development
  • Functioning and Service Needs
  • Knowledge Base for Health and Welfare Management
  • Performance Assessment of the Health and Social Service System 

Contact details

Anu Niemi
Head of Unit
tel. +358 29 524 7296
e-mail: [email protected]

Postal address
Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
Knowledge-Based Management and Co-Creation Unit
Po Box 30
FI-00271 Helsinki, Finland