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- In the municipalities, primary health care services are provided by health centres
- Your local health centre is the first place to visit in all cases of illness
- Health centres are usually open from Monday to Friday from 8 am to 4 pm
-When you call a health centre, a nurse will evaluate your situation (urgent or non-urgent) and make an appointment
- If you do not need an urgent treatment, you will have to wait longer for a doctor’s appointment
- In Finland, public health service doctors usually do not make home visits

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-  provide around-the-clock nursing care
-  there have nursing aides and skilled nurses on hand 24 hours a day

- is aimed for elderly people, who have illness or injury or are mentally disabled
- provide short-term rehabilitation, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech-language therapy and help in daily activities
- some nursing homes have special units for example for people who have Alzheimer´s disease
- In Savonlinna there are nursing homes for example Attendo Aapeli nursing home and Savon Koti Oy and Hopearanta
- in nursing home you pay a monthly payment, it depends on what services the resident needs
- there are public and private nursing home ( public nursing home is cheaper)

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- Free for all pupils.
- The school nurse and doctor can be contacted through School Health Care.
- School nurses meet the pupils, as a rule, every year and carry out an individual health check-up and a health care plan.
- A more comprehensive health check-up including a check-up by a school doctor is conducted on 1st, 5th and 8th grades.
- In all matters related to the well-being of a student the school nurse should be contacted first.
- An appointment to the school doctor must always be arranged through the school nurse.
- In urgent cases of illness and outside school hours the primary place for care is the pupil's own local health station.

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Baby box/Maternity package was invented in 1949 and it was given to expectant mothers who visited a doctor. Baby box includes a box which can be used as a baby's first bed, snowsuit also known as a sleeping bag, booties, mittens and mitten clips, blanket, light-weight overall with hood, hats, bodysuits, pants and leggins, towels, cuddly toy and personal care items.
Baby box is free of charge or you can choose to have 140 euros if you don't want to take the package. The box is worth more than 140 euros.
The idea was to get pregnant women to visit the maternity clinic. If you visited there regularly you got the maternity package and the same system is working today. Because of this children's mortality rate has decreased a lot.

Here is an introduction of the baby box:

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- Provide family support, with attention to relationships and parenting

- Expectant mothers normally meet with a nurse and doctor 11-15 times during pregnancy

- Attending a maternity clinic is one of the preconditions for eligibility for maternity benefit

- Parents take part in family and childbirth preparation sessions

- Mothers are offered screening for foetal chromosome and growth defects during pregnancy

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-  Public health care means that health care is produced as a public service: it is paid in full from taxes.
- Public health care in Finland consists of primary health care, specialist health care and special services.
- Occupational health care is free for the employee and it is usually organized in the private health centers.
- You can also use private health services at your own cost, for example:
- reception time 20 min 59,00 €
- reception time 60 min 141,00 €

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-  birth control
- women's diseases
- sexual diseases
- pap smear tests
- for under 25 years old
- relationship counselling
-  sexual counselling
- advises for all (bi, hetero, gay)

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- Aims to promote the health of children under school age and to prevent illness
-  Children under school age can get the services
- Vaccinations
- Health check-ups
- Monitoring of development               (height, weight..)
-  Assess the physical, mental and social condition of children
-  Municipalities are in charge of the practical arrangement of services

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- There are five university hospitals in Finland.
- They are located in Helsinki, Tampere, Kuopio, Oulu and Turku.
- They work in same town with university medical faculties.
- In the hospitals they teach nursing students and students from different medical fields.
- The staff consists of  different medical specialists.
- University hospitals give special health care and to go there you need to have a referral from your GP
- In Kuopio University Hospital there are different special units such as Neuro, Cardiac, cancer, ICU and surgical unit.
- Link to their website: https://www.psshp.fi/web/en
- New services for health technology are being developed at Kuopio University Hospital

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- providing health care services for students in upper secondary school, vocational school, college and university
- preventive health care, medical care, mental health care and dental care
- Student health care is free for students who are under 18 years old
- Municipalities are in charge of the student health care
- we have a public health nurse on our campus on four days a week

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- The Social Insurance Institution is a Finnish government agency.
- All Finnish citizens are a part of it automatically.
-  Gives benfits and pensions, provides health care insurance.
- is funded by tax money.
- University of applied sciences and university students get student allowance which is 250€/month minus taxes.
- You can also get help for paying your rent from Kela which is called housing allowance. The amount of allowance is dependent on the town and the cost of your rent. In Savonlinna it's 275€/month at most.
- So basically your monthly income from Kela covers your rent entirely or almost entirely depending of your rent.
-  The student loan is a government-guaranteed loan that you must pay back. If Kela gives you a loan guarantee you can apply for a loan at a bank of your choice.  Because the loan is guaranteed by Kela you do not have to put up any other security. The loan guarantee is valid for up to 30 years from the first disbursement of loan funds.

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