STAKES
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Strategic priority areas
1.
Sustainability of welfare policy
2.
The effectiveness of welfare and health promotion and
services
3.
Responding to demographic changes
4.
Reducing social inequalities
5.
Information as a basis for steering
6.
Innovativeness
1. Sustainability of welfare policy
Why it is important and what it means
For the Finnish welfare system to develop sustainably, it is of
prime importance that it rests on an economically and socially
sustainable foundation, that it continues to enjoy broad public
support and that efforts are made to ensure equitable distribution
of welfare.
STAKES main line of action
STAKES conducts research into and evaluates welfare and health
policies from the perspective of economic and social
sustainability. It develops new models for organising services, and
analyses alternative ways of fulfilling welfare
responsibilities.
More detailed targets:
Priority lines of action
- STAKES develops a range of service models and practices and
spreads them in the social and health sector in order to promote
welfare and health.
- STAKES monitors, evaluates and models developments in the costs
and funding of social and health services and cash
benefits.
2. The effectiveness of welfare and
health promotion and services
Why it is important and what it means
Effective welfare services promote and maintain people's welfare,
health and functional capacity with observable effects. Due to
limited resources and increasing demands, the effectiveness of
welfare services can only be improved by increasing their
productivity and efficiency.
STAKES main line of action
STAKES develops and disseminates good practices in social and
health care, in addition to offering knowledge, skills and tools
for implementing them.
More detailed targets:
Priority lines of action
- STAKES works to ensure that the good practices applied in
social and health care form client-oriented, effective service
packages. The use of methods is based on assessed information.
- STAKES contributes to ensuring that the social and health
sector has the necessary instruments for developing service systems
and assessing their costs and effectiveness.
- STAKES supports decision-making by offering information about
the welfare and health impacts that decisions are foreseen to
have.
3. Responding to demographic
changes
Why it is important and what it means
The ageing of the population, the relatively low birth rate, and
immigration and internal migration largely determine the need for
social and health services. Changes in the need for services are
qualitative as well as quantitative. With the ageing of the
population, people's functional capacity becomes an important
social and health policy issue. Living environments and lifestyles
also play a crucial part in determining functional capacity.
STAKES main line of action
STAKES analyses and anticipates demographic changes and their
quantitative and qualitative effects on functional capacity,
service needs, service structure and labour demand.
More detailed targets:
Priority lines of action
- The tools offered by STAKES can be used to anticipate the type
and degree of service needs and their resource requirements, and to
redesign service structures.
- STAKES has an up-to-date picture of the demand for labour and
professional skills in the social and health sector.
4. Reducing social inequalities
Why it is important and what it means
The growth of social inequalities between population groups
decreases cohesion in the community and society at large. STAKES
works to prevent any growth of inequalities primarily by conducting
research and drawing up recommendations for action concerning
inequalities in income distribution and the use of social and
health services.
STAKES main line of action
STAKES monitors and works to anticipate the growth of inequalities
in Finland and internationally. It also analyses factors that
contribute to increasing inequalities and looks for ways of
reducing them.
More detailed targets
Priority lines of action:
- STAKES analytically monitors and models current living
conditions, well-being, service use and other areas of potential
inequality.
- STAKES suggests ways of reducing inequalities.
5. Information as a basis for
steering
Why it is important and what it means
The social and health sector should be developed on the basis of
relevant up-to-date information. Information that can be used as a
basis for steering policy-making is comprised of statistics,
registers and research data sets, as well as the studies, surveys,
indicators and other information products that draw on these data
sources.
STAKES main line of action
STAKES works to create and maintain an information basis for
guiding the social and health sector.
More detailed targets:
Priority lines of action
- STAKES offers a comprehensive basis of up-to-date information
for steering and policy-making. This information basis builds on an
ongoing analysis of the welfare needs of the population, and on
electronic client and patient data.
- STAKES provides user-friendly interactive information products
that support activities and development work at national, regional
and local levels.
6. Innovativeness
Why it is important and what it means
Innovativeness means an ability to think and act without prejudice
and differently than before. The need for innovative solutions in
social and health care arises from people's changing needs and
limited public resources. A basis for innovativeness is provided by
modern technology, multidisciplinary research and networking.
STAKES main line of action
STAKES enhances its own innovative activities and the innovative
ability of the social and health sector at large.
More detailed targets:
Priority lines of action
- STAKES promotes innovation structures and processes and good
practices in social and health care at national and regional
levels
- STAKES' innovations are rendered into products and brought into
use
- STAKES seeks to improve export opportunities for Finnish social
and health care expertise and products.
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Published 2.2.2006, Updated
29.1.2007
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