The Good Practice website offers information about good practices in the field of social welfare and health care.
THL and good practices
The National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) supports and promotes the identification, evaluation, description and implementation of good practices in work communities within the field of social welfare and health care. The work is carried out through thematic learning networks. THL has also developed a model for describing a good practice.
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Underlying ideas of the good practice work
THL's good practice process is built upon the framework of democracy-driven dialogue. It enhances bottom-up knowledge creation.
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Database of good practices and other tools to support the process
The Finnish version of the Good Practice website publishes descriptions of social and health care practices that have been evaluated and found functional and/or effective. It also offers the practitioners tools which help them in the different parts of the good practice process. The English website is a more concise version of the Finnish one and thus only introduces the basic concept of the database.
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