Objectives

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The aim is to

• create new knowledge aiming at significant public health impacts, in addition to scientific impacts
• enable planning, development and implementation of new procedures and policies to improve public health
• support evaluation of existing interventions and approaches in healthcare and policy;
• open new opportunities for health promotion;
• meet the information needs of society on major public health issues and health promoting activities
• intensify the dissemination of research results.

The programme stresses the application of the infrastructures and special know-how provided by Finnish society. A particular aim is to fund extensive, multidisciplinary consortium projects within the programme. Another aim is to bring together approaches applied by public health research as well as behavioural sciences, social sciences and biosciences.