The mission of the department is to improve health by doing research on prevention of chronic diseases, their risk factors, and nutrition, and being a national and international expert body for chronic disease prevention and health promotion. The main working areas are cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes, allergy, and home and leisure time accidents, nutrition and health promotion.
Department aims to improve chronic disease risk factors, healthy lifestyle and nutrition, chronic disease prevention on community level and reduce social inequalities in health.
Chronic diseases, their risk factors and health behaviour indicator are monitored in the department.
Experts serve national and local authorities in chronic disease prevention and health promotion. Several international research project and public health programmes are carried out in the department.
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