public health services and private health care services. The Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health supports the welfare of people in Finland via...

Finland offers its residents universal healthcare. The prevention of diseases and other types of health promotion have been the main focus of Finnish...

Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia...

The Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL, Finnish: Terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin laitos, Swedish: Institutet för hälsa och välfärd; until 2019, National...

A Finnish heritage disease is any genetic disease or disorder that is significantly more common in people whose ancestors were ethnic Finns, natives of...

and Health charged with the task of protecting and promoting health in Finland. KTL was founded in 1911; the final form was established in 1982 in order...

Prostitution in Finland (the exchange of sexual acts for money) is legal, but soliciting in a public place and organised prostitution (operating a brothel...

and intensive health promotion. The smoking rate among adults in Finland in 2009 stood at 18.6%, lower than the OECD average of 22.3%. In a more recent...

Suicide in Finland takes place at a higher rate than the European Union average. The number of annual suicides peaked at more than 1500 in 1990, and has...

security or welfare in Finland is very comprehensive compared to what almost all other countries provide. In the late 1980s, Finland had one of the world's...