Nursing: Organisations and statistics

World Health Organization leads and champions global efforts to give everyone, everywhere an equal chance to live a healthy life.

ECDC is a specialized agency of the European Union charged with strengthening Europe's defenses against infectious diseases.

An association of academic institutions and other organizations from around the world engaged in addressing global health challenges.

Finnish Medicines Agency Fimea maintains and improves the health of the population by supervising and developing the pharmaceutical sector.

Finlex is an online database of up-to-date legislative and other judicial information of Finland. Finlex is owned by Finland's Ministry of Justice. Most of the databases are only available in Finnish and Swedish. Some translations of Finnish acts and decrees are also available in English and other languages. Case-Law in legal literature database is also available in English.

Julkari is the shared open repository for the publications of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health's administrative branch organisations. Many of the publications are freely accessible as pdfs and citing them is allowed, as long as the source is mentioned. Julkari also serves as the Finnish Institute of Health and Welfare’s (THL) publications register.

Social Insurance Institution of Finland (Kela) carries out research to analyse and provide information on the Finnish social security system and the way it functions.

The Integration.fi website is intended for anyone who, in the course of their work, is involved with immigrants or is engaged in immigrant integration and refugee reception. The website is maintained by the Centre of Expertise in Immigrant Integration at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment.

The Rehabilitation Foundation gathers information on rehabilitation, work ability, functional capacity and social participation. Contents only in Finnish.

Publishes information on health and social policy. The web service of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health is published in Finnish, Swedish and English. The pages in Finnish and Swedish contain more information than the English pages.

THL studies, monitors, and develops measures to promote the well-being and health of the population in Finland. It gathers and produces information based on research and register data.

Duodecim website includes reliable, current and evidence based information on health for the general public in Finland. Contents only in Finnish.

Studies the relationship between work and health. They provide services and information based on latest research of work life to workplaces, decision-makers, occupational health care units and other organizations that develop well-being at work.

Publishes free guides and instructions on occupational safety also in English

National Supervisory Authority for Welfare and Health (Valvira) is a national agency operating under the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health charged with the supervision of the social and health care, early childhood education and care, and alcohol sectors. It directs implementation and supervision of health protection nationwide as well as provides licensing for social and health care providers.

THL produces a range of statistics in the field of social welfare and health care to support decision-making, development and research.

Statistics Finland produces reliable and impartial statistics on Finnish society. Statistics Finland’s task is to process data accumulated from various data sources into statistics and bring them to the benefit of all Finns: citizens, decision-makers, researchers and other information users.

Statistics Finland has put together a list of statistics information sources, which includes both official and unofficial publishers of statistics.