HistoryThe current state of healthcare in Finland can be traced back to its origins before the Second World War and shortly before the Nazi occupation of the region. Tuberculosis and infectious diseases were responsible for almost one in three Finnish deaths, particularly among the younger population of the time. (Koskinen, 2006) As such, government-sponsored healthcare was provided primarily in tuberculosis healthcare centers distributed throughout the country and initially divided into tuberculosis districts known today as municipalities. After the war Finland increased its welfare provision to accommodate a network of regionally sponsored maternity and childcare services. -treatment centers and immunization programs that grew due to the prolific availability of public midwives and nurses who were available on a much larger scale than trained doctors. The definitive eradication of tuberculosis and the control of other infectious diseases made health services less useful and were absorbed into some twenty government hospital districts across the country which in the 1960s quickly found themselves unprepared to treat more serious diseases. (Jutta, 2002) According to Teperi, in the late 1960s, life expectancy for Finnish males aged 40 was the lowest in Europe. (Teperi, 2009) Furthermore, the relative size of the facilities and populations that sought care from these hospital districts dictated an imbalance in the level of hospital spending and the quality of care. In the following years, numerous healthcare acts were passed through legislative measures that aimed to provide Finnish residents with various types of public healthcare. Today the Finnish people are among the most well-groomed inhabitants on the planet. The str...... in the center of the sheet......th_Care_System_SITRA2009.pdf. Retrieved March 1, 2012, from www.isc.hbs.eduJutta, J., Rico, A., & Cetani, T. (2002). Finland. Health systems in transition. www.euro.who.int/document/e74071.pdf. Retrieved March 3, 2012, from www.euro.who.intFINLEX ® - Säädöskäännösten tietokanta: 731/1999 englanti. (n.d.). FINLEX ® - Valtion säädöstietopankki. Retrieved March 1, 2012, from http://www.finlex.fi/fi/laki/kaannokset/1999/en19990731Statistics Finland -. (n.d.). Tilastokeskus - Statistikcentralen - Statistics Finland. Retrieved March 2, 2012, from http://www.stat.fi/til/vaerak/2010/vaerak_2010_2011-03-18_kuv_005_en.htmlOECD Health Data 2011 How Finland Compares. (2011). www.oecd.org/dataoecd/42/44/40904932.pdf. Retrieved February 15, 2012, from www.oecd.org/finlandHenderson, J. W. (2012). Health economics and policy (5th ed.). Mason, Ohio: Southwestern.