The website Kaventaja – Reducing Inequalities in Health and Wellbeing offers information on inequalities in health and wellbeing, on factors which influence such inequalities and on ways of reducing them. The website contains information in compact form on the research and development activities of the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) and its co-operation partners. The website is maintained by THL.

The Kaventaja website supports decision-making and planning on the level of municipalities, regions and central government. Key target groups include leading officials and elected officials, together with the specialist staff of the various administrative sectors.

Content of the website

The Kaventaja website contains:

• research and development information on the underlying reasons behind inequalities in health and wellbeing, the nature of these inequalities and changes in them
• information on the cost and effectiveness of measures to reduce inequalities
• methods and examples for taking inequalities into account and for reducing them in policy-making and day-to-day operations
• themed information packages, tools and training materials
• information on legislation, national programmes and players
• links to key statistics
• press releases, news and information on upcoming events

Content for the website is produced chiefly by experts at THL. Other key experts involved come from other research institutes, and from the municipalities and regions.

The main sources used in content production are mentioned at the bottom of each webpage.

Editorial team

The Kaventaja website is maintained and developed in collaboration with users by a team of web editors with support from an editorial group that convenes regularly.

Sanna Ahonen
Editor-in-Chief
kaventaja(at)thl.fi

Photographs

The website features photographs by Riitta Nieminen and Tapani Kauppinen, who also hold all copyrights to their photographs.