- The Injury Prevention Unit has it's focus on promoting the prevention of home and leisure time injuries and raising awarness of injuries as a public health concern.
- The unit produces and disseminates information on the incidence, risk factors and prevention of injuries.
- The unit has been an active partner in working groups and commitees formulating national targets, action plans and strategies and also has been a partner in several EU programmes.
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Main areas of activities are
- Monitoring of injury situation in Finland (Finjury)
- Prevention of falls and fractures among older people
- Prevention of injuries among children
- Prevention of injuries among adolescents
- Promoting and facilitating capacity building
- Local injury prevention work
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Stop accidents!
Information and tools to prevent
accidents and injuries.
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Head of the Unit, senior researcher
Anne Lounamaa
Tel. +358 20 610 8436
E-mail address: firstname.lastname@thl.fi