Centre for Health and Social Economics CHESS

The Centre for Health and Social Economics (CHESS) undertakes high-quality health economics research on health-policy relevant issues. It also aims to promote interaction among researchers nationally and internationally and to increase the impact of health economics research.

Our work centres on applied research and developing methods to support this research.

CHESS focuses on three research areas:

• Quality and efficiency of health services
• Financing and provision of health services
• Evaluation of health services system

The Centre's community of multidisciplinary researchers represents a wide range of expertise, including health economics, medical science, nursing sciences, health care administration, social policy and statistics. Our research work combines theories from these different disciplines with a practical knowledge of care and services for older people.

The research findings of CHESS are reported at national and international seminars/conferences, in scientific journals and other publications, as well as in the CHESSONLINE newsletter (in Finnish).

The research findings are partly published in the form of knowledge and statistics that are ready for use.

The information concerning the organisational structure is no longer valid. However, the contact details are still up to date. STAKES personnel assumed their new duties at the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) in April 2009.

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