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52 FINNISH STUDENT HEALTH SERVICE
The Finnish Student Health Service (FSHS) provides university students and high school students with health 
and medical care, as well as mental health and dental services. The system may be used by all undergraduate 
students. The fact that university students have their own health care system is a special feature of Finland’s 
health care system. 
FSHS specializes in student health care and offers all Finnish university undergraduates health care services 
in their own municipality. FSHS is funded by the National Centre for Pensions, students, student unions and the 


Ministry of Education and is a recognized part of the Finnish health care system. 
The core function of FSHS is to maintain and improve the students’ capacity to study by promoting students’ 
health and preventing and treating diseases. The decision to have a separate health care system for university 
students is based on the fact that as young adults they have specific health care needs, and the services are 
geared to serve mental health, dentistry and sexual and reproductive health. All FSHS activities are based on a 
thorough understanding of students’ health care needs. Active student participation supports the service and they 
have a say in the decision-making process and in evaluating and developing the way it works. 
The service was founded in 1954 by the Finnish Student Union (SYL) as a result of a growing interest in 
developing student health care. The beginning of this can be dated to 1932, when the Finnish Anti-Tuberculosis 
Association began to examine students’ lungs. In 1945 SYL set up a new committee on student health care to 
analyse how student health and medical care could be organised after an earlier attempt had failed during the 
war. SYL decided to commence activity the same year. 
SYL’s student health care office opened its doors in 1946 and concentrated its activities on checks for TB and 
treating illness. The head doctor was Dr Göta Tingvald Hannikainen. At the same time The Finnish Association 
to Prevent Sexually-transmitted Disease funded screening for syphilis. These early projects are a good 
demonstration of the nature of the service, which has has since the beginning focused on what young adults 
need. 
Funding was secured in 1947 when the Finnish Parliament (innovation no. 1) enacted a law on the 
compulsory medical examination of university students and set an obligatory health care fee for each term. The 
functions of the Student Health Care Office were later transferred to the new FSHS foundation, which started to 
apply for funding also from Finland’s Slot Machine Association (innovation no. 17) and asked the universities to 
provide the necessary premises. In 1955 the state budget included an allocation to fund the FSHS for the first 
time, and a student health association was founded in 1956 to seek more financial support. 
University students’ health care services have since been the responsibility of the foundation, although in the 
1970s it was widely debated whether they should be transferred to the municipalities. There has been discussion 
about whether FSHS’s services should also be available to polytechnic students ever since these schools were 
created. After a great deal of considerationa three-year trial was run in 2011 
– 2014 with polytechnic students. 
The results were encouraging: FSHS working model suited to the students. December 2016 it was decided to 
start FSHS for polytechnic students from 2019 onwards.
FSHS has remained responsible for student health care because there are clear and simple grounds for its 
functions and activities. 
Vesa Vuorenkoski 
– member of FSHS board of directors 2004–2005 
 

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