- Individuals
- Licences, notices and applications
- Alcohol serving and sales
- Animals
- Animal breeding
- Animal health control
- Animal husbandry
- Animal shows and displays
- Animal transport authorisations
- Animal welfare certification
- Animal welfare violations
- Broiler stocking density notifications
- Contagious animal diseases
- Destruction of animals
- Laboratory animals
- Notifications relating to professional or large-scale keeping of animals
- Outdoor cattle grazing
- Wild animal farming
- Burials
- Corporate governance enforcement
- Education and culture
- Property development, housing and joint property management associations
- Real estate or letting agents
- Social welfare and health care
- Water and the environment
- Wealth and assets
- Work and occupational safety and health
- Guidance and advice
- Aerial forest fire surveillance
- Alcohol marketing
- Competition and consumer affairs
- Contagious animal diseases
- Coordination and enforcement of health care services for prisoners and the armed forces
- Customers’ rights
- Estate agents and letting agents
- Food control
- Free-range pigs and poultry
- Health protection
- Medicines
- Patients’ rights
- Restaurants and coronavirus
- Romani affairs
- Tobacco control and enforcement
- Water and the environment
- Wealth and assets
- Welfare and public health
- Challenging decisions
- Enforcement and reporting violations
- Licences, notices and applications
- Businesses
- Licences, notices and applications
- Alcohol serving and sales
- Animals
- Animal breeding
- Animal husbandry
- Animal health control
- Animal shows and displays
- Animal trade notices
- Animal transport authorisations
- Broiler stocking density notices
- Contagious animal diseases
- Destruction of animals
- Disinfection of livestock transport vehicles
- Disposal of water from animal transport vehicles
- Notifications relating to professional or large-scale keeping of animals
- Outdoor cattle grazing
- Private veterinary care provision
- Reindeer husbandry
- Wild animal farming
- Laboratory animals
- Burials
- Corporate governance enforcement
- Education and culture
- Property development, housing and joint property management associations
- Real estate or letting agents
- Social welfare and health care
- Tobacco sales
- Water and the environment
- Wealth and assets
- Work and occupational safety and health
- Guidance and advice
- Aerial forest fire surveillance
- Alcohol marketing
- Competition and consumer affairs
- Contagious animal diseases
- Coordination and enforcement of health care services for prisoners and the armed forces
- Estate agents and letting agents
- Food control
- Free-range pigs and poultry
- Medicines
- Quality assurance of social services
- Restaurants and coronavirus
- Rights and status of customers
- Rights and status of patients
- Water and the environment
- Romani affairs
- Wealth and assets
- Welfare and public health
- Self-regulation
- Enforcement and reporting violations
- Licences, notices and applications
- Government agencies
- Licences, notices and applications
- Guidance and advice
- Advice on the Finnish Health Protection Act
- Aerial forest fire surveillance
- Contamination of water supply
- Coordination and enforcement of health care services for prisoners and the armed forces
- Coordination of tobacco control
- Environmental health audits and consultancy
- Food
- Libraries
- Medicines
- Quality assurance of social services
- Rights and status of customers
- Rights and status of patients
- Romani affairs
- Veterinary medical care
- Water and the environment
- Welfare and public health
- Self-regulation
- Enforcement and reporting violations
- Customer service
Promoting welfare and public health
We enforce the implementation of the statutory duties of local authorities in the promotion of welfare and public health. Local authorities must appoint the parties responsible for the promotion of welfare and public health. Local authorities must monitor the welfare and health of municipal residents and the factors affecting them by population group.
Reports on the welfare and health of municipal residents and the measures taken must be submitted to the municipal council every year. Also, a more extensive welfare report must be prepared for the municipal council once every council term.
In their strategic planning, local authorities must set goals for the promotion of welfare and public health based on local circumstances and define the actions supporting those goals on the basis of municipality-specific welfare and public health indicators. The various branches of local government must cooperate in the promotion of welfare and public health.
Local authorities must cooperate with other public entities operating in their municipalities, with private companies and with non-profit corporations. In cases where health care and social services are jointly arranged by several local authorities, the local government joint services area must participate in an expert role in the cooperation between various sectors and in the social and health impact assessment in the municipalities involved.
Furthermore, local authorities must take action to promote the welfare of municipal residents and to compile an annual report assessing the state of public health, the measures taken and their effectiveness. Preliminary impact assessment (PIA) of local authority decisions is a method for considering in advance how decisions under preparation would affect the lives of various groups of people. The preliminary impact assessment serves to direct decision-making and the implementation of decisions. In their decision-making and when preparing for plan implementation, local authorities and hospital district joint municipal authorities must assess and take account of the impacts of these decisions and plans on the health and social welfare of the population.
Hospital district joint municipal authorities must offer expertise and support to local authorities by
- arranging training,
- collecting welfare and health monitoring data and
- providing local authorities with information on proven operating models and good practices related to the prevention of illnesses and problems.
The regional strategies and plans for the promotion of welfare and public health must be prepared in cooperation with local authorities while considering the operations of the various branches of local government within each municipality.
Further information:
Regional State Administrative Agency for Southern Finland
- Heli Heimala, Senior Officer, [email protected], tel. 0295 016 115
Regional State Administrative Agency for Eastern Finland
- Katja Maksimainen, Senior Officer, health care, [email protected], tel. +358 (0)295 016 893
- Anne Kejonen, Senior Officer, health care, [email protected], tel. +358 (0)295 016 908
Regional State Administrative Agency for Lapland
- Sanna Ylitalo, Senior Officer, [email protected], tel. 0295 017 386
Regional State Administrative Agency for Southwest Finland
- Anne Taulu, Senior Officer, promotion of welfare and public health, [email protected], tel. 050 3509 764
Regional State Administrative Agency for Western and Inland Finland
- Sini Männistö, Senior Officer, [email protected], tel. 0295 018 568 (promotion of welfare and public health)
- Miia Saarimäki, Administrative Officer, [email protected], tel. 0295 018 812 (substance abuse prevention)
Regional State Administrative Agency for Northern Finland
- Raija Fors, Senior Officer, [email protected], tel. 0295 017 559
Links to legal texts
Topics that might interest you
National Supervisory Authority for Welfare and Health
National Monitoring Programme for Social Welfare and Health Care (in Finnish)
National Monitoring Programme for Alcohol Licensing for 2020–2024 (in Finnish)
National Monitoring Programme for Tobacco 2020–2024 (in Finnish)
National Institute for Health and Welfare
Welfare reports of local authorities
Online welfare report of the Association of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities (in Finnish)