Health in Päijät-Häme (Etelä-Suomi, Finland): official figures

With an age-standardised morbidity index of 101.6 in 2024 (Finland = 100), Päijät-Häme ranked 6th lowest among Finland's 19 regions for the burden of illness.

How Päijät-Häme compares with other regions in Finland

THL morbidity index, age-standardised (Finland = 100) (2024)

Päijät-Häme ranks 14 of 19, highest first. Figures come from the wellbeing services counties; Uusimaa combines East, Central and West Uusimaa, Vantaa-Kerava and the City of Helsinki, weighted by population, and NUTS 2 figures combine their counties the same way.

Outpatient physician visits in primary health care per 1,000 residents (2025)

Päijät-Häme ranks 18 of 19, highest first.

Non-urgent primary care physician visits with a wait of over 7 days (%) (2024)

Päijät-Häme ranks 14 of 18, highest first.

Influenza vaccination coverage among people aged 65 or over (%) (2025)

Päijät-Häme ranks 16 of 19, highest first.

Daily smokers among adults (%) (2024)

Päijät-Häme ranks 8 of 19, highest first.

Adults with obesity (BMI 30 or more) (%) (2024)

Päijät-Häme ranks 10 of 19, highest first.

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Sources

• Statistics Finland (Tilastokeskus): Regional time series 1987-2025 (table 142h, Municipal key figures database): population, housing, education, employment and jobs by NUTS region, region and municipality (PxWeb API POST query, json-stat2, years 2015-2025), read 24 October 2026 · saved copy (SHA-256 18a97e220312…)
• Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Sotkanet: Sotkanet indicator bank, REST API 1.1: 32 indicators (one exact JSON response per indicator, e.g. indicator=5761, plus the region list) on morbidity, primary care, lifestyle, social assistance, homelessness, county election turnout and the net operating costs of wellbeing services counties, 2015-2025, bundled in one zip, read 24 October 2026 · saved copy (SHA-256 e5b01db4f1e9…)

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