Functioning

What we know about functioning in Finnish population?

THL studies and monitors health and functioning in the population. Research results and indicators describing health and functioning in the population are available on THL's websites.

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TOIMIA - Functioning Measures database

The Finnish TOIMIA network of experts aims to create uniform national practices for the measuring and evaluation of functioning. Guidelines concerning the measuring of functioning and evaluations of measures are published in the TOIMIA database.

TOIMIA Functioning Measures database

What is functioning?

Functioning refers to people’s physical, psychological and social capacity to cope with the day-to-day activities they find meaningful and necessary – work, studies, leisure time and hobbies, self-care and care for others – in the environment in which they live.

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ICF implementation

THL is preparing a structured model for data on functioning. It also co-ordinates the national ICF network to promote learning, development, research and use of ICF.

ICF implementation

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ICF Research Branch

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ICF Education Portal

Web-based portal entirely funded by private persons with a passion for making top quality ICF resources globally available.

Kela's Info Tray

Kela's research concerns social security at different stages in life, the adequacy of basic provision, Kela's operations and the benefits safeguarding income and health which Kela administers.

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This website is targeted at researchers and decision-makers.

The Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) underlines the importance of having a broad understanding of functioning and the environmental and individual factors affecting it as well as the skills to assess functioning in collaboration with the client.

THL studies functioning in the population and strives for a uniform understanding, measuring and assessing of functioning together with actors in the field of social and health care.