1. The document discusses the development of Own Health Corners in the Hospital District of Etelä-Savo, Finland to provide citizens with reliable health information and self-care services. 2. There are now 24 Own Health Corners across the region that offer health measurements, information on lifestyle topics, and events. 3. An evaluation found the most popular corners provided personal guidance, while some needed improvements to privacy and comfort. Expanding online resources was also discussed.

1. OWN HEALTH CORNERS
SUPPORT CITIZENS’SELF CARE
25.8.2011
Eeva Häkkinen,RN, MNSc
Anneli Luoma-Kuikka, RN, MSc

2. Hospital District of Etelä-Savo
11 municipalities
108 500 inhabitants
2 hospitals (beds total 305)
Mikkeli Central Hospital
Moisio Psychiatric Hospital
KUH=Kuopio University Hospital
KUH-Spesialised Health Care area
(5 hospital Districts)

3. Mikkeli Central Hospital (230 beds)

4. Moisio Psychiatric Hospital (75 beds)

5. • PATIENT CARE 2010 • PERSONNEL 2010
• 1417 employees (total)
• Outpatient visits 173 866
– somatics 150 402 • Physicians 151 (11,9%)
– Psych 23 464 • Nurses of different ranks and
• Ward care 96 534 (days) specialities 589 (46,3%)
– somatics 70 588 • Other nursing personnel 103
– psych 25 946 (8,1%)
• Auxiliary personnel in clinical
• Surgical operations 7259 investigation 110 (8,6%)
• Deliveries 818 • Maintenance personnel 203 (16%)
• Managing and administrative
personnel 73 (5,8%)

6. DEVELOPMENT BACKGROUND
OF OWN HEALTH CORNERS
• In the background is a change in health care services (eg.
hospital services becoming value-centric and shortening of
hospital treatment periods) and citizens' need to access
reliable health information.
• As a response to the growing demand, the Hyvis Own
Health Centre were opened in Mikkeli Central Hospital and
Moisio Hospital in 2009.
• The network of Own Health Corners has been expanded
as part of the Kanerva-KASTE project by establishing 24
Own Health Corners in the Etelä-Savo Hospital District
area.

7. LOCATION OF OWN HEALTH
CORNERS
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8. DEVELOPMENT
COOPERATION
•An extensive network of service providers
has taken part in developing Own Health
Corners:
•Specialised care, primary health care, patient
and public health organisations and the
universities of applied sciences in the region
•The following parties coordinated the project:
Askel, TERESA, Kanerva-KASTE, and
Keksi-projects.

9. WHAT ARE OWN HEALTH
CORNERS?
•Sources of health promotion information and
places for measuring
•They offer information on nutrition, exercise,
rest, mental well-being, relationships,
smoking and alcohol (substance abuse
prevention)
•Visitors can measure their blood pressure,
waist circumference, height and weight as
well as do a variety of health-related tests.

10. RELIABLE HEALTH
INFORMATION (1)
• Services are intended for patients and their relatives
and everyone interested in their personal well-being
as well as health care professionals and patient and
public health organisations
• Brochures, manuals and other printed materials are
available in Own Health Corners

11. RELIABLE HEALTH
INFORMATION (2)
•Most Own Health Corners have a computer
and therefore the possibility for electronic
information retrieval through the regional
Hyvis health portal
•In the future, the Hyvis portal will be
developed into a system for health
information retrieval, self-health monitoring,
and secure electronic transactions
•The Internet service is available at all hours
at http://www.hyvis.fi

12. ACTIVITIES
• Own Health Corners provide an opportunity to
organise a variety of health and well-being events:
• Events have included, for example, patient
organisation fairs / exhibitions, theme weeks during
Heart Week, World Diabetes Day events, events
during Substance Abuse Prevention Week
• During 2011, a round of Own Health Corner events
will be organised with the following themes:
•Know your worth!
•Do not be paralysed!
•Seize health!

13. HEALTH INFORMATION ROOMS AND OWN
HEALTH CORNERS IN THE KUH-ERVA AREA
• Central Finland 67 (+1 Health
Information Centre Palanssi)
• Pohjois-Savo 29
• North Karelia 69
• Etelä-Savo 22 (+ 2 Hyvis Own Health
Centre)
• Itä-Savo 5
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• Total amount of Own Health Corners in
< < the KUH-ERVA-area is 194
• Population of the area is approximately
850 000 inhabitants.

14. OPERATIONAL ASSESSMENT 1
• The most popular Own Health Corners in Etelä-
Savo are the ones where you can get personal
guidance. The so-called cold Corners without staff
were not perceived as appealing (Väänänen 2011)
• In North Karelia, it has been requested that more
attention be paid to maintaining privacy during
measuring when establishing Own Health Corners.
Guidance in the use of measuring tools was
requested. Some of the Corners received negative
points from the visitors because they were not
comfortable enough. (Moilanen 2010)

15. OPERATIONAL ASSESSMENT 2
•The group activity that was piloted in the
Pohjois-Savo Own Health Corners motivated
the participants to lifestyle changes and gave
them peer support (Mustonen and
Lehmusaho 2011)
•According to a study conducted in Central
Finland in the spring of 2011, approximately
30% of the Health Information Rooms work
well, 40% need developing and 30% work
poorly (Turunen, 2011).

16. CHALLENGES FOR OWN HEALTH
CORNER DEVELOPMENT IN THE
FUTURE
•How to direct customers to use Own Health
Corners to a greater extent
•How people can be directed to use the
services if necessary (eg. hypertension)
•Expanding the Hyvis portal to be used more
widely as a tool for professionals

17. REFERENCES
• Ojala, M.,Airola, J.,Moilanen,S.,Mustonen, R.,Väänänen,A.&Pääkkönen,M.
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kohdistuneesta kartoituksesta. Pohjois-Karjalan sairaanhoito- ja
sosiaalipalvelujen kuntayhtymä. Raportteja 3.
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