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PhD Simo Kokko. National Institute for Health and Welfare, Kuopio, Finland.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Background: Finland has since 1972 had a primary health care system based on health centres run and funded by the local public authorities called \u2018municipalities\u2019. On the world map of primary health care systems, the Finnish solution claims to be the most health centre oriented and also the widest, both in terms of the numbers of staff and also of different professions employed. Offering integrated care through multi- professional health centres has been overshadowed by exceptional diffculties in guaranteeing a reasonable access to the population at times when they need primary medical or dental services. Solutions to the problems of access have been found, but they do not seem durable.<\/p>\n Description of policy practice: During the past 10 years, the health centres have become a ground of active development structural change, for which no end is in sight. Broader issues of municipal and public administration structures are being solved through rearrang- ing primary health services. In these rearrangements, integration with specialist services and with social services together with mergers of health centres and municipalities are occurring at an accelerated pace. This leads into fundamental questions of the benefts of integration, especially if extensive integration leads into the threat of the loss of identity for primary health care.<\/p>\n Discussion: This article ends with some lessons to be learned from the situation in Finland for other countries.<\/p>\n Key Words:<\/strong> primary health care system, social services, Finnish solution<\/p>\nKokko S. Finnish solutions and experiences for integrated primary health care. Shidnoevr. z. vnutr. simejnoi med. 2016;1:87-94.<\/h5>\n
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