Finland
Population (2017): 5.503 M
Income per Capita (2018): 47,057.62 US
Percentage of GDP on Healthcare (2015): 9.45%
training
Year family medicine established: 1961
Type of Training: up to 9 months of residency under the supervision of a GP, optional specialized care available but not compulsory (WONCA, 2014)
Length of Training: Post-graduate training in family medicine is 6 years.
Number of institutions that offer family medicine: 5 universities teach family medicine: Univ of Helsinki, Univ of Kuopio, Univ of Oulu, Univ of Tampere, and Univ of Turku (Brekke et al., 2013)
Number of family medicine residents graduating each year: unknown
practice
Number of family doctors in country (2016): 6, 837 family physicians (Eurostat, 2016)
Physician to population ratio (2006): 95.9 family physicians per 100,00 people (Masseria et al., 2009).
DALY: 13,205 per 100,000 individuals (Due to all Causes).
Life Expectancy:
Females 2017: 84.4 years
Males 2017: 78.6 years
Mortality rate 2017:
2017 Males: 94 per 1,000 male adults.
2017 Females: 43 per 1,000 female adults.
Infant Immunization-HepB3: % of 1-year-old children received: N/A
College of Family Physicians (Y or N):
Yes: Philippines Academy of Family Physicians (PAFP).
Healthcare system
Finland has a public health care system. (Kringos et al., n.d.)
The Finnish Society of General Practice was founded in 1983 (Gorbatow, 1984).
training
Family medicine in Finland was created as a specialty in 1961, and requires post-graduate training for six years at one of the five universities offering training: Univ of Helsinki, Univ of Kuopio, Univ of Oulu, Univ of Tampere, and Univ of Turku (Brekke et al., 2013). It is unknown how many graduate from these programs each year.
practice
6, 837 family physicians were practicing in Finland as of 2016, (Eurostat, 2016) with 95.9 family physicians per 100 000 people recorded in 2006 (Masseria et al., 2009).
Family physicians have a somewhat limited role, and do not make home visits in Finland. Finland does have a gatekeeping system, but patients can visit medical specialists directly in private practices if the costs of the visit are paid privately (Masseria et al., 2009). There are only 3,500 of the 20,000 physicians in Finland are family physicians. Despite this, Finland has managed to provide universal healthcare with adequate reform in the family medicine department of primary care (WONKA).
References
Brekke, M., Carelli, F., Zarbailov, N., Javashvili, G., Wilm, S., Timonen, M., & Tandeter, H. 2013. “Undergraduate Medical Education in General Practice/Family Medicine throughout Europe-a Descriptive Study.” http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6920/13/157.
Gorbatow, O. 1984. “To Cite This Article: Oleg Gorbatow (1984) The Society of General Practice in Finland.” Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care 2 (1): 41–41. https://doi.org/10.3109/02813438409017701.
Kringos, D.S., Wienke G.. Boerma, W., Hutchinson, A., Saltman, R.D., & Saltman, R.B. n.d. “Building Primary Care in a Changing Europe Edited Building Primary Care in a Changing Europe Observatory Studies Series 38.” Accessed December 2, 2018. http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/271170/BuildingPrimaryCareChangingEurope.pdf.
Masseria, C., Irwin, R., Thomson, S., Gemmill, M., & Mossialos, E. 2009. “Primary Care in Europe.” The London School of Economics and Political Science, no. December: 1–42. https://doi.org/10.1097/JAC.0b013e31824b45f4.
“Physicians, by Speciality.” 2016. Eurostat. Accessed on December 1, 2018. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statisticsexplained/index.php?title=File:Physicians,_by_speciality,_2016_HLTH18.png.
Kidd, M. 2014. From the President: Family Health Care Reform in Finland. WONCA. Accessed on March 30, 2019. https://www.globalfamilydoctor.com/news/fromthepresidentprimaryhealthcarereforminfinland.aspx