The aim of this paper is to give a short description of the most important developments of mental health services in Finland during the 1990s, examine their influences on the organisation and provision of services, and describe shortly some national efforts to handle the new situation. The Finnish mental health service system experienced profound changes in the beginning of the 1990s. These included the integration of mental health services, being earlier under own separate administration, with other specialised health services, decentralisation of the financing of health services, and de-institutionalisation of the services.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMental health is an intrinsic part of health. Its prevailing position as secondary to physical health and its consequent neglect are based on inaccurate assumptions about mental health. Nowhere in the world, in either the developed or the developing countries, has mental health work been given priority as part of social policy, health policy or public policy.
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April 1999
Poverty and health are examined from the global and Nordic perspectives. The data from global social policy research, Nordic comparisons and equity in health research provide a basis for the discussion. At the global level the consequences of poverty are growing and the resultant problems posed are becoming increasingly evident.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis article deals with the image of war as expressed in Finnish medical periodicals from the year 1849 till the creation of IPPNW at the beginning of the 1980s. Medical science has served the building up of our national state, and has focused on the acute injuries or diseases of the soldiers that reduced their combat effectiveness. The civilian population, the adversary and the long-term effects of war are hardly mentioned in the publications.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAll eighth-grade pupils of secondary schools in a Finnish town completed questionnaires 3 times during a 17-month follow-up. A total of 935 girls were included in the study. The mean age of the girls at the start of the study was 14.
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