About this episode

Laura Kihlström discusses the ongoing healthcare reform in Finland and its impact on users' experiences.

This episode features Laura Kihlström’s presentation at the Finnish Anthropological Society’s annual meeting on March 24th, 2026. Laura discusses the relation between the objectives of the ongoing healthcare reform in Finland and the lived experiences of people using healthcare services, and presents preliminary analysis of the ethnographic research conducted in three primary healthcare centres. Laura Kihlström is an anthropologist and a research manager at the Finnish Institute for Heath and Welfare. Contributors: Laura Kihlström Suomen Antropologinen Seura

People in this episode

Guest: Laura Kihlström

Topics covered

• healthcare reform
• ethnography
• Finland
• universal healthcare
• lived experiences

Keywords

• healthcare
• ethnographic research
• primary healthcare
• Finland
• reform implementation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Finnish Anthropological Society, Finnish Institute for Heath and Welfare

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