Health in Finland

[4] Local governments and municipalities are responsible for organising good social and health care services for their residents.

This means that the individual healthcare professional has a license to work due to completing a training programme in the relevant legislation and decrees.

[6] A new measure of expected human capital calculated for 195 countries from 1990 to 2016 was published by The Lancet in September 2018.

The World Health Organization has published a list of countries by alcohol consumption.

Smoking among adults has shown a marked decline over the past thirty years in most OECD countries.

Much of this decline can be attributed to policies aimed at reducing tobacco consumption through public awareness campaigns, advertising bans and increased taxation.

Among the Nordic countries, Finland ranks the highest in a percentage of adults who are overweight.

In comparison to other European countries, Finland is slightly above the average but overweight is still more common in Southern Europe and Great Britain.

[3] Suicide mortality in Finland has generally been one of the highest in Europe, but it has decreased to 18 per 100,000 population in 2005.

[15] The World Health Organization has compiled a list of countries by suicide rate.

[18] One of the Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG3) targets is to reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births, by 2030.

[22] Free influenza vaccines are offered every year for vulnerable groups and those at risk.

Over 11,000 children under 5 years old required healthcare services such as hospitalisations and outpatient visits during the biggest outbreaks.

The national vaccination program is one of the biggest reason that many communicable diseases have almost fully disappeared from the country.

[28] The data shows that most of the children in Finland have started the 5-in-1 vaccination series.