Ministers

Minister of Social Affairs and Health

The Minister of Social Affairs and Health Pirkko Mattila deals with

• health insurance (daily allowances and reimbursements)
  • parenthood allowances
  • sickness allowances
  • reimbursements for medicines
  • reimbursements for travel expenses
  • health insurance reimbursements
  • reimbursements for organising occupational healthcare
  • employer’s funds
• unemployment security
• rehabilitation organised by Kela
• pension security
• housing allowance for pensioners
• employment accident, motor liability, patient, life and non-life insurances
• insurance market
• pharmaceutical service
  • production, wholesale and retail sale of medicines
  • compulsory stockpiling
  • medicine reimbursement system
• front veterans’ issues
• disability benefits
• occupational safety and health
• Funding Centre for Social Welfare and Health Organisations STEA as well as Veikkaus Oy and its proceeds
• preparedness coordination

Minister of Family Affairs and Social Services

The Minister of Family Affairs and Social Services Annika Saarikko deals with

• social welfare
  • child welfare
  • social welfare and services for persons with disabilities, incl. interpreter services
  • care for alcohol and drug abusers
  • services for older persons
• preventive social policy
• health services
• patient safety
• publicly funded pharmacotherapy under the Health Care Act and related pharmaceutical service
• prevention of communicable diseases
• national vaccination programme and vaccine procurement
• free-of-charge treatments under the Communicable Diseases Act and the Client Fees Act
• public health
• mental health
• rehabilitation
• health promotion
• environmental healthcare
• alcohol, drug and tobacco policy
• gambling-related harm
• health protection
• home and leisure accidents
• domestic violence and violence against women
• occupational healthcare, excl. reimbursements
• social assistance
• maternity and child health clinics
• school and student healthcare, school welfare services
• family and parenting support, family social work
• healthcare and social services for families
• sexual and reproductive health
• state reform schools
• wellbeing, inclusion promotion and social exclusion of children and young people
• maternity grants
• conscript’s allowance
• child benefits
• child home care and private care allowances
• farmers’ holiday and stand-in scheme
• central government transfers to local government
• general housing allowance

The Minister of Family Affairs and Social Services also deals with equality issues.