From 2021, FSHS will provide student health care also for students in Universities of Applied Sciences. Students will see these changes in the form of new service channels and a wider range of remote and digital services.
Services will include, for example
- primary health care
- oral health care
- mental health services (see Q&A page for more details)
- treatment requiring the expertise of a specialist or specialist dentist
- physiotherapy
In the list below you can check more precisely what services will be included!
As of spring 2021, students pay a health care fee entitling FSHS to Kela every semester. Appointment fees for FSHS services will not be charged.
Any questions left? Read answers to commonly asked questions on the expansion here! You can also leave your own question.
- Modes of operation: Study environment and study community activities
- Regular collaboration with interest groups, particularly with educational institutions and student associations
- Expert services
- Health-promoting communications
- Study environment inspections every 3 years and yearly monitoring
- Modes of operation: Healthcare services Individual monitoring and promotion of health and welfare and ability to study
- Individual and group-based health guidance
- Periodic health check-ups:
- public health nurse and general practitioner
- oral health examination and treatment plan
- Preventive oral health measures
- Prevention of infectious diseases: health check-ups, vaccinations (national vaccination programme)
- Family planning
- Study-related health examinations, certificates and statements required by the Infectious Diseases Act and other legislation
- Travel health advice, including student exchange (students purchase the required vaccines themselves, although they can be given as part of student healthcare)
- Basic psychological examinations
- Modes of operation: Medical care services
- Primary medical care and oral health services
- Assessing the need for treatment
- Non-urgent treatment, including treatment to be given within 1 to 7 days
- Treatment requiring a medical or dental specialist if the patient does not qualify for specialized care
- Laboratory and imaging services in primary care related to the diagnosis and treatment of diseases
- Physiotherapy
- Nutritional therapy
- Speech therapy specific to field of study (initial investigation of voice disorders for those studying for a profession requiring verbal communication)
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