Welfare plan

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“Promoting health and wellbeing plays a central role in ensuring the overall welfare of our residents. In Helsinki, everyone – regardless of their background or starting point – should be able to live a good life and pursue their dreams. In Helsinki’s Welfare Plan, we focus in particular on the reduction of disparities in people’s wellbeing and the promotion of daily exercise and an active lifestyle.”

– A Helsinki we can be proud of – City Strategy 2025–2029

The Welfare Plan is a document prepared every council period of office. The City of Helsinki Welfare Plan is a joint plan between Municipal Helsinki and the Social Services, Health Care and Rescue Services Division. The HUS Group has also participated in its preparation.

Long-term and effective health and wellbeing promotion work in Helsinki is built around two priorities: functional capacity and healthy lifestyles, and mental wellbeing and inclusion. By investing in them, we expect that more Helsinki residents will experience a good quality of life, be satisfied with their lives, feel good about their health and exercise more. In addition to this, we expect the morbidity and disability indices of the National Health Index to improve for Helsinki. By targeting the measures in the Welfare Plan, we aim to reduce the differences in wellbeing and health between population groups.

The Welfare Plan contains six objectives for the council period of office. More detailed measures concerning the targets are drawn up each year as part of the financial and operational planning. In addition to this, the development of the City’s internal health and wellbeing promotion work and the Child-Friendly Municipality work will continue.

The objectives are aimed at promoting physical activity and an active lifestyle for all population groups. The plan will also aim to boost young people’s confidence in their future and reduce loneliness and exclusion among working-age and older people.

The objectives have been chosen so as to require cross-administrative cooperation to achieve them. The annual measures of the Welfare Plan are developed, managed and monitored by three strategic lifecycle groups focusing on children, young people and families with children, working-age people and older people.