THL invites 10,000 to comprehensive health check

Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) will invite 10,000 adults to a comprehensive health examination during the winter and spring, said THL in a press release.

The invitation will be sent to randomly selected people over 20 years of age. The examination will look at their health, functional capacity and risk factors for diseases that may develop later.

The health examinations are part of THL’s extensive Healthy Finland survey, which began last autumn. At that time, 66,000 adults were asked to respond in the questionnaire phase of the study. Now 10,000 of them will also be invited to a health examination.

"The research project is a nationally significant effort that provides information on the health and well-being of the entire population and its sub-groups which cannot be obtained from other sources," said principal researcher Annamari Lundqvist.

The health examinations will begin in January and end in June 2023. Health care professionals will travel to a total of 50 municipalities. The examinations are carried out throughout Finland from Utsjoki to Helsinki and from Vaasa to Joensuu.

“The data from the Healthy Finland survey can be used to reduce premature deaths and limitations in functional capacity due to key chronic diseases and to develop health care services to meet the needs of residents as well as possible,” said Annamari Lundqvist.

“The Healthy Finland survey and its predecessors form a unique knowledge base to support an effective social and health policy”.