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    • Finland’s population is ageing rapidly
    • How does the social and health care service system work?
    • How is 27 billion euros in social and health care funding allocated?
    • Human health and environmental health go hand in hand
    • It’s important to keep vaccination coverage high
    • Most drug-related deaths are preventable
    • Most drug-related deaths are preventable
    • Nicotine products harm health
    • The availability of gambling is increasing
    • Regulating the availability of alcohol supports well-being
    • Regulating the availability of alcohol supports well-being
    • Strengthen health and sustainability through your food choices
    • The prevention of violence should be mandated by law
    • There are persistent inequalities in health and well-being in Finland
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    • Duty to notify violence against a child
    • Intervening in honour-related violence
    • Intervening in female genital mutilation (FGM)
    • Identifying and preventing violent radicalisation
    • Prevention of sexual violence
    • Prevention of violence against women
    • Preventing domestic violence
    • Submission of data to the Hospital Productivity Statistics
    • Suicide prevention
    • Mental health promotion in municipalities and wellbeing services counties
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    • Fidelity review of the IPS job coaching service
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    • Preventing and identifying violence between young people
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    • Serious acts of violence in educational institutions
    • Mental Health Impact Assessment (MHIA)
    • RAI benchmarking for data-driven management
    • Maternity and Child Health Clinic Questionnaires
    • Cultural diversity in mental health support
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    • Use of RAI assessment in client work
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    • Investigation of a waterborne outbreak
    • Investigation of a Bathing Water–Related Outbreak
    • Discussing weight
    • National Nutrition Recommendations
    • Heat preparedness in childcare and schools
    • Heat preparedness in health and social care institutions and care units
    • Encountering victims of human trafficking in healthcare and social welfare
    • Recovery orientation in client work
    • Intervening in forced marriage
    • Submission of data on shelters for victims of domestic violence
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    • Quality reports on statistics
      • Quality report: Assisted Fertility Treatments
      • Quality report: Child welfare
      • Quality report: Induced abortions
      • Quality report: National Health Index
      • Quality report: Perinatal statistics – Parturients, delivers and newborns
      • Quality report: Prevalence of ADHD diagnoses among children and young people
      • Quality report: Social protection expenditure and financing
      • Quality report: Sterilisations
      • Quality report: The adult population’s well-being and health – Healthy Finland survey
      • Quality report: Tobacco statistics
      • Quality report: Well-being of children and young people – School Health Promotion study
      • Quality Report: Monitoring of Services for Older People
      • Quality report: Health Care and Social Welfare Personnel
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Quality reports on statistics

The quality report is an assessment of the quality, reliability and suitability of the statistics for different purposes in accordance with the quality report recommendations by the Official Statistics of Finland (OSF). A quality description is also drawn up for statistics that are published outside the Official Statistics of Finland series.

  • Quality report: Assisted Fertility Treatments
  • Quality report: Child welfare
  • Quality report: Health Care and Social Welfare Personnel
  • Quality report: Induced abortions
  • Quality report: National Health Index
  • Quality report: Perinatal statistics – Parturients, delivers and newborns
  • Quality report: Prevalence of ADHD diagnoses among children and young people
  • Quality report: Social protection expenditure and financing
  • Quality report: Sterilisations
  • Quality report: The adult population’s well-being and health – Healthy Finland survey
  • Quality report: Tobacco statistics
  • Quality report: Well-being of children and young people – School Health Promotion study

Updated: Sun May 03 18:29:13 EEST 2026

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