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This winter, as always, there will be moments when the price of electricity is exceptionally high. The fluctuations in electricity prices resulting from exceptional situations in electricity production or windless days, cause those with spot-priced electricity contracts, in particular, to monitor the price of electricity carefully and react quickly to price peaks. 

The Thl.fi website will be transferred to a new technical platform on Tuesday 19 December.

Respiratory tract infections are currently circulating widely in Finland. An influenza epidemic has begun and an RSV epidemic is just starting. Coronavirus is still circulating, although the peak of the autumn wave has already passed.

The exposure of Finnish children to PFAS is well below the limit for low risk, according to a THL study on the exposure of 1-year-old Finnish children to the four most harmful PFAS compounds.

More and more users of health services find that there are problems with access to the services. Fifty-seven per cent of men and 63 per cent of women find that too long queues have made it more difficult for them to get treatment. Problems with access to health services have increased by about 10 percentage points compared with 2020. 

The 2023 Public Health Award has been granted to EHYT Finnish Association for Substance Abuse Prevention.

The BMI of approximately 1.2 million adults exceeds the limit for obesity (30 kg/m2). 30% of women and 27% of men are obese. Obesity is the most common among 40-64-year-olds, one in three of whom are obese. 

HPV (human papillomavirus) causes several different cancers in both women and men. The HPV vaccine is the best way to protect against the infection. In Finland, 80 percent of girls and 71 percent of boys who were born in 2010 have received the HPV vaccine. The information behind the figures is from the Finnish National Vaccination Register.

Young and middle-aged women experience emotional abuse and physical domestic and intimate partner violence more often than others.

Discrimination in working life is common, and especially young women experience discrimination.