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The Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL, Finnish: Terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin laitos, Swedish: Institutet för hälsa och välfärd; until 2019, National Institute for Health and Welfare) is a Finnish research and development institute operating under the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health. [1]
Terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin laitos (THL) estimated that there are around 2500 people who carry the virus but are unaware of their infection. This would mean one in five HIV-positive people. [ 21 ] Most HIV infections are diagnosed in 30–34-year-olds, although most of HIV cases in Finland are discovered only in the AIDS stage.
The Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL, Finnish: Terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin laitos) is a research and development institute that functions as a statutory statistical expert authority for health and welfare in Finland. THL functions in health and welfare promotion, in prevention of disease and social problems, e.g. ensuring vaccine ...
The Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) and the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health are responsible for decision-making regarding the vaccination program. [25] THL keeps track of the vaccination coverage within different age and risk groups in Finland, by maintaining a national vaccination register where data is retrieved from ...
Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL, Finnish: Terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin laitos) Thomas H. Lee Partners, a private equity firm; Tourism Holdings Limited, a New Zealand tourism company; Technology Happy Life, a Chinese smartphone manufacturer; Tropical Hockey League, a Miami-based hockey league of the late 1930s
The open assessment method has been developed in the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL, Finnish: Terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin laitos) in Finland originally for providing guidance in complex environmental health problems. So far, it has been applied on e.g. air pollution [2] and pollutants in fish. [3]
In February 2011, THL concluded that there is a clear connection between the Pandemrix vaccination campaign of 2009 and 2010 and the narcolepsy epidemic in Finland. The probability of developing narcolepsy was determined to be nine times higher in those who received the Pandemrix vaccination than those who didn't.
KTL was merged on 1 January 2009 with STAKES, the National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health, to form a new research and development institute, the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL). The last Director General of KTL was Pekka Puska, who was also appointed Director General of the THL.