STAKES - Knowledge for Welfare and Health
STAKES is an expert agency whose key functions are research, development and statistics. Information produced at STAKES can be found through the topics below.
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National Institute for Health and Welfare
Read about the merger of STAKES and KTL The National Institute for Health and Welfare will start operations on 1 January 2009, following the merger of STAKES and the National Public Health Institute (KTL). The act and decree on the new institute were adopted at the end of October. According to Mauno Konttinen, Director General of STAKES, the organisational model for the 1300-strong institute will also be finalised well in time for the Christmas party. Read the Director General's column
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Press releases
6.11.2008 Press release
No signs of increasing heroin use in Finland
A number of European countries have reported evidence suggesting that heroin use is on the rise. According to the EMCDDA Annual report, there has been an increase in both the number of heroin users and the need for drug treatments. Read more 2.9.2008 Press release
Revised guidebook in English for expectant parents
The English edition of the guidebook "We're having a baby" has been revised. It is currently being distributed to prenatal clinics for their increasingly multicultural clientele. Read more 13.5.2008 Press release
Interventions for problem gambling indicate a responsible gambling policy
Tuukka Tammi, a Senior Researcher at STAKES, has analysed the emergence of gambling problems and gambling addiction internationally in the areas of research and psychiatry and also examined why gambling has become a social problem in Finland in the 2000s. Read more 9.5.2008 Press release
SOTKAnet offers key social and health care figures on European countries
The newly extended data content of the SOTKAnet web service (www.sotkanet.fi) from STAKES covers key social and health care data that can now also be searched at the level of European countries.
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