Women experience inappropriate behaviour such as sexual harassment, hate speech and degrading comments related to their gender more often than men.

The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health has appointed a working group to examine regulatory needs concerning good end-of-life care and patients' right to self-determination as well as terminal care and euthanasia. End-of-life care encompasses palliative care, meaning treatment aimed at providing relief from symptoms, and terminal care.

A working group, appointed by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, proposes a road map for ending the use of tobacco and other nicotine products in Finland by 2030. It would mean that less than 5% of the adult population use tobacco and nicotine products daily. Reaching this goal, recorded in the Tobacco Act, requires that the future governments monitor and assess tobacco policy and develop new measures.

If a schoolbook example were to be made of a project, a strong candidate would be based in Oulu, where the matters of people with severe disabilities were studied thoroughly. Ten new ways of thinking of the customer were produced.

The working group set by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health has investigated, as required by Parliament, how the provisions on cross-border distance sales, especially online sales, of alcoholic beverages could be clarified. In its unanimous proposal, the working group proposes that provisions on restricting distance selling of alcoholic beverages and provisions on definitions of the key concepts related to distance selling be included in the new Alcohol Act. At the same time, it investigated the monitoring of distance sales of alcoholic beverages and surveyed means that would enhance the collection of excise duty payments in cross-border sales of alcohol in Finland.