Implementation of the strategy

THL’s strategy will be a guideline for all THL operations, from actions encompassing the entire institute to the launch of individual projects. The strategy will guide annual operational planning throughout THL.

The strategy implementation is supported by focusing particular attention on certain specific strategy measures on the level of the institute as a whole. The aim is to achieve tangible results in these areas immediately in the first half of the strategy period. Strategy actions at the institute level are controlled by THL’s Management Group and all divisions participate in them.

General strategy actions at THL co-ordinated by the Management Group up until 2015

THL will operate to ensure that…

• prevention of inequality begins already in childhood.
• scrutiny of the cost-effectiveness of services is expanded beyond specialized medical care to cover all key social welfare and health services.
• decision-makers and the general public are made even more clearly aware of the overall picture of the social welfare and health care system.
• use of THL data resources is facilitated, i.e. statistical and register data, research data sets and biological sample collections.

Joint strategy actions on the responsibility of divisions and individual departments up until 2015

• THL will apply a micro-simulation model that will enable evaluation of the adequacy and functioning of basic security and minimum income security, compare proposed measures and provide policy alternatives with new methods for ensuring fairness and preventing exclusion.
  (Division of Welfare and Health Policies)
• THL’s expertise will focus on putting a stop to weight gain to reduce obesity in the general population to improve public health and promote functional capacity and longer working careers. This will be attained through nutrition and exercise, and by means of information campaigns and partnership.
  (Division of Welfare and Health Promotion)
• THL will improve the monitoring system for infectious diseases to ensure rapid detection of epidemics and to enable monitoring of the impact of the national vaccination programme.
  (Division of Health Protection)
• THL will improve patient safety by supporting social welfare and health care units in their development work and by focusing special attention on combating health care associated infections.
  (Division of Health and Social Services)
• THL will efficiently implement reforms in the ICT systems of the social welfare and health care sector and introduce reforms in its statistics and registers.
  (Information Department)
• THL's expertise will be made available for efficient use by clients and the general public through active deployment of online communications channels and novel solutions.
  (Department of Communications and PR)