Promoting health and well-being – Municipal management

Positive development in health promotion within municipal management

Municipal management and central administration play a significant role in promoting the health and wellbeing (hyte) of the population across all municipal sectors. Compared to the 2023 data collection, overall progress has been made in municipal management’s health promotion work.

The overall results describe the efforts of municipal managements and central administration to create the necessary conditions for health and well-being promotion in municipalities from 2011 to 2025. The information is based on a data collection sent every two years to the municipal management of all mainland Finnish municipalities.

Half of the municipalities had a valid local safety plan

A local safety plan is a key tool in a municipality’s safety work. It outlines concrete actions aimed at improving the safety of the municipality, local area, or residents for the duration of the council term.

In 2025, 62% of municipalities reported having a valid local safety plan. However, when responses were reviewed together with the year of the plan’s latest update and after municipalities provided additional details following the data collection, only 47% were found to have a valid safety plan in place.

Welfare regions are now more frequently involved in municipalities’ health and wellbeing promotion work

In nearly all municipalities in 2025, the municipal council had approved a wellbeing report and plan (98%), and a health and well-being promotion (hyte) working group was in place (96%).

Under the Act on Organising Social and Health Care (612/2021, 7§), the wellbeing region must cooperate with the municipalities in its area and support them with its expertise. Wellbeing regions participated more frequently than before in preparing the most recent wellbeing report and plan approved by municipal councils (49% in 2025, 28% in 2023) as well as in HYTE working groups (59% in 2025, 42% in 2023).

About the data in more detail

• Read the whole statistic report (Julkari) (in Finnish)
• Statistics in TEAviisari
• Indicator data in Sotkanet

Background information

• Data description (in the Data Catalogue)
• Instructions for submitting data (in Finnish)
• Previous statistics (2023) (in Finnish)

Source (in Finnish)

Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL). Hyvinvoinnin ja terveyden edistäminen kuntajohdossa – TEA 2025. Tilastoraportti 52/2025 (Julkari) (in Finnish)

Description of the statistics

The data collected by the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare on Promotion of Health and Well-being in Municipal Management describes the role and significance of municipal management in health promotion efforts covering all municipal sectors. The reported information focuses particularly on the basic prerequisites that enable effective management of health and well-being promotion across all administrative branches. The data does not describe operational, day-to-day activities.

The data is used, for example, in the development and evaluation of the implementation of the social and health care reform and in steering national health and wellbeing promotion. Some of the information also forms part of the data basis for the health and wellbeing promotion supplement (HYTE coefficient), which influences municipal state funding.

The statistics present monitoring data from 2011 onwards.

Update schedule

The statistics are published every two years, in odd-numbered years. The exact publication date can be found in the publication calendar.
Statistics publication calendar