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00.00 Definition of the organization’s structure and operations
00.00.00 Definition of the organization’s structure and operations
00.01 Management
00.01.00 Management
00.02 Operational planning, monitoring, and internal audit
00.02.00 Operational planning and monitoring
00.02.01 Internal audit
00.03 Working groups, permanent experts, and other preparatory bodies
00.03.00 Working groups, permanent experts, and other preparatory bodies
00.04 External control and audit
00.04.00 External control and audit
00.05 THL initiatives and proposals
00.05.00 THL initiatives and proposals
00.06 General services
00.06.00 Mail handling
00.06.01 Telephone services
00.07 Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
00.07.00 Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
00.08 Cooperation agreements with other organizations
00.08.00 Permanent cooperation agreements with other organizations
00.09 Other general administration
00.09.00 Other general administrative matters
01.00 Collective agreements for public officials and employees
01.00.00 Collective agreements for public officials and employees
01.01 Filling of official posts and employment positions
01.01.00 Filling of official posts and employment positions
01.02 Official position arrangements
01.02.00 Official position arrangements
01.03 Cooperation, trade union, and shop steward matters
01.03.00 Cooperation
01.03.01 Election of cooperation committee and shop stewards
01.04 Occupational well-being and safety planning
01.04.00 Occupational well-being and safety planning
01.04.01 Conducting security clearances
01.04.02 Reports under the Whistleblower Protection Act
01.05 Staff induction, development, and training
01.05.00 Staff induction, development, and training
01.06 Guidance of human resources administration
01.06.00 Guidance of human resources administration
01.09 Other human resources administration
01.09.00 Staff rewarding
01.09.01 Other HR administrative matters
01.12 Determination of remuneration
01.12.00 Job requirement evaluation
01.12.01 Personal performance evaluation
01.12.09 Other remuneration-related matters
01.13 Management of employment relationship matters
01.13.00 Management of employment relationship matters
02.00 Budget
02.00.00 Preparation of the budget
02.01 Financial statements
02.01.00 Financial statements
02.02 Procurement and facilities management
02.02.06 Procurement
02.09 Other financial administration
02.09.00 Other financial administration
02.09.01 Works of art
02.10 Accounting
02.10.00 Accounting
02.11 Accounts receivable and payable
02.11.00 Ledger
02.12 Payroll accounting
02.12.00 Payroll accounting
02.13 Cash management
02.13.00 Cash management
02.14 Registration of equipment and furnishings
02.14.00 Registration of equipment and furnishings
02.15 Travel management
02.15.00 Travel management
03.00 Records management and archiving
03.00.00 Records management and archiving
03.01 Information management and IT services
03.01.00 Information management and IT services
03.01.02 Use and opening of email and home directories
03.01.03 Preparedness and security of supply
03.02 Library and information services
03.02.00 Material databases and catalogues
03.02.01 Library lending and information services
03.02.02 Acquisition and maintenance of library materials
03.02.09 Other library and information service matters
03.03 Communications and marketing
03.03.00 Communications and marketing
03.04 Publishing activities
03.04.00 Publishing activities
03.05 Online services and portals
03.05.00 Cooperation forums and networks
03.05.01 Online forums
03.05.09 Other online services and portal matters
03.06 Customer relations and information steering
03.06.00 National fairs and training events organized by THL
03.06.01 TERVE-SOS Award
03.07 THL events and ceremonies
03.07.00 THL events and ceremonies
03.09 Other information management and communication
03.09.00 Other information management and communication matters
03.10 Information and document disclosure
03.10.00 Disclosure of information and documents
03.11 Information security and data protection
03.11.00 Management of information security and data protection incidents
03.11.01 Guidance related to data protection
03.11.02 Accountability
03.12 Organization of information management
03.12.00 Maintenance of information management descriptions
03.12.01 Impact assessment of changes
03.12.02 Statement on assessment of changes in central government
04.00 Issuing opinions and preparing reports
04.00.00 Issuing opinions and preparing reports
04.00.01 Requests for opinions and opinions concerning honorary titles
04.00.02 Hearing requests from Parliament, ministries, and other authorities
04.01 Preparation of opinions, reports, and studies
04.01.00 Preparation based on assignments
04.01.01 Evaluation activities
04.02 Nomination to external expert groups
04.02.00 Nomination to external expert groups
04.03 Approval of informational materials on children's nutrition
04.03.00 Approval of informational materials on children's nutrition
04.04 Licenses for clinical microbiology laboratories
04.04.00 Licensing procedure for clinical microbiology laboratories
04.05 Guidance of social and healthcare information management
04.06 Clinically significant findings
04.06.00 Assessment of clinically significant findings
04.09 Other expert task-related matters
04.09.00 Other expert task-related matters
05.02 Data services related to statistics and registers
05.02.00 Data services related to statistics and registers
05.03 Mandatory data collections
05.03.00 Change management of data collections
05.03.01 Coordination group
05.03.02 Guidance of data collections
05.03.03 Management of data collected through data collections
05.05 Use of sensitive data in registers and research materials for research
05.05.00 Use of social and healthcare register and document data for research
05.05.02 Research permit processing for data collections
05.05.03 Disclosure of register data for clinical drug trials
05.06 Requests to inspect personal data contained in registers
05.06.00 Requests to inspect personal data contained in registers
05.07 Code system and classification activities
05.07.00 Code Server
05.07.01 Approval and changes of codes and classifications
05.07.02 Administrative documents of coding and classification activities
05.07.03 Agreements concerning code system and classification activities
05.07.04 Organization-type code systems
05.07.05 Guidance of code system and classification activities
05.07.09 Other matters related to code services
05.09 Other statistical and register-related matters
05.09.00 Other statistical and register-related matters
06.00 Project management
06.00.00 Project management
06.00.01 Documents related to EU projects
06.01 Project evaluation
06.01.00 Project evaluation
06.02 Research permit practices
06.02.00 Internal data permits for the use of social and healthcare register and document data in research
06.02.01 Ethical review of research
06.02.02 External remote access permits
06.02.03 Operations of the population research data steering group
06.02.04 THL Ethics Committee
06.03 Project administration
06.03.00 Project administration
06.04 Project outputs
06.04.00 Project outputs
06.05 Research materials
06.05.03 Data management
06.05.04 Data collection
06.05.05 Data processing and analysis
06.05.06 Data reporting
06.05.07 Data publication
06.05.08 Data impact
06.09 Other research-related matters
06.09.00 Other research-related matters
07.00 Quality management and supervision
07.00.00 Quality system
07.00.01 Auditing and accreditation
07.00.02 Operational steering
07.01 Testing activities and monitoring
07.01.00 Equipment and chemicals
07.01.01 Testing
07.01.03 Monitoring of testing
07.09 Other laboratory-related matters
07.09.00 Other laboratory-related matters
08.00 Vaccination programme
08.00.01 Implementation of the vaccination programme
08.00.03 Evaluation and renewal of the vaccination programme
08.00.04 Wholesale pharmaceutical trade activities
08.00.05 Vaccine batch documentation
08.00.09 Other documents related to the vaccination programme
09.00 Child welfare institutions and state mental hospitals
09.00.00 Steering and monitoring of subordinate institutions
09.00.01 Appointment of boards of subordinate institutions
09.00.02 Personnel matters of subordinate institutions
09.00.03 Client matters of subordinate institutions
09.00.09 Other matters of subordinate institutions
09.01 Compensation for care of war evacuees
09.01.00 Compensation for care of war evacuees
09.02 Appropriations for health promotion
09.02.01 Correspondence with the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health
09.02.02 Project administration
09.07 Forensic psychiatry
09.07.05 Other forensic psychiatry-related matters
09.07.06 Mental state examinations
09.07.07 Committee work
09.07.08 Dangerousness assessments
09.07.09 Assessment of need for treatment
09.07.10 Supervision period and termination of treatment
09.07.11 Disclosure of information
09.07.12 Continuation of treatment
09.08 Forensic medicine
09.08.03 Medico-legal determination of cause of death
09.08.04 Guidance and supervision of cause of death investigations
09.08.05 Medico-legal expert tasks
09.08.06 Forensic odontology identification
09.08.07 Forensic dental age assessment
09.08.08 Clinical forensic medical examination
09.08.09 Disclosure of samples for DNA research
09.09 Other administrative tasks
09.09.00 Citizen and authority correspondence
09.09.01 Other administrative tasks
09.10 State grants for enhancing local social and healthcare and information system infrastructure
09.10.01 Correspondence with the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health
09.10.03 State grant applications and project administration
09.11 Mediation in criminal and civil disputes
09.11.00 Mediation in criminal and civil disputes
09.12 Prison healthcare
09.12.00 Management of service processes
09.12.01 Preventive healthcare
09.12.02 Emergency medical care and patient transport
09.12.03 Patient treatment
09.12.04 Examinations related to treatment and diagnostics
09.12.05 Healthcare tasks related to deceased persons
09.12.06 Cooperation related to patient care
09.12.07 Support services
09.12.08 Patient ombudsman activities
09.12.11 Release of prisoners for medical treatment
09.12.12 Inquiries and document requests related to prison healthcare
09.12.13 Prisoner complaints
09.12.14 Requests to access register data
09.12.15 Prisoner dangerousness, mental state examination, and risk assessment
09.12.16 Pharmaceutical services in prisons
09.12.17 Applications for postponement of sentence enforcement on medical grounds
09.12.18 Pardons of prisoners on medical grounds
09.12.19 Patient injury cases
09.12.20 Isolation and quarantine decisions
09.12.21 Involuntary treatment orders
09.12.22 Permit procedures for research and procurement
09.12.23 Patient rights officer activities
09.13 State grant for food aid activities;
09.13.00 Project administration of food aid state grants
10.00 Other tasks
10.00.00 Matters related to other tasks
12.00 General administration
12.00.00 Administrative tasks
12.00.01 Scientific guidance
12.00.02 Quality management
12.00.03 Authority cooperation
12.00.04 Communications
12.01 Data management
12.01.00 Transfer of data
12.02 Research activities of the THL Biobank
12.02.00 Research permit processing for the THL Biobank
12.02.01 Cooperation
12.03 Customer relationship management
12.03.00 Management of donor information
14.00 Management
14.00.00 Steering group
14.00.01 High-level expert group
14.00.02 Secondary use of health and social data ecosystem group
14.00.03 Cooperation group for data controllers and customers
14.00.04 Management group
14.00.05 Transfer of data permit processing
14.00.06 Guidance on data descriptions
14.00.07 Guidance on secure operating environments
14.00.08 Internal operational management of Findata
14.00.09 Stakeholder cooperation
14.01 Data request service
14.01.00 Processing of data requests
14.02 Data permit service
14.02.00 Processing of data permits
14.03 Data anonymization service
14.03.00 Data anonymization
14.04 Rights of data subjects
14.04.00 Data subject’s right of access
14.04.00 Data subject’s right to object
14.04.00 Data subject’s right to rectification and restriction
14.05 Secure operating environment
14.05.00 Ordering of operating environments
14.06 Data permit amendment service
14.06.00 Processing of data permit amendments
14.07 Predefined datasets
14.07.00 Creation of predefined datasets
14.08 Ensuring anonymity of results