The Health and Wellbeing of Finnish Prisoners (Wattu IV) – How to Conduct a Multimethod Prison Study, and Selected Results

ICPA 2025 Presentation by Mika Rautanen (PID137)

Author

Mika Rautanen

Head of Department / Research Manager, Health Care Services for Prisoners, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland

Mika Rautanen has worked as a clinical forensic psychiatrist in several prisons in Finland and has a department head position in the Psychiatric Hospital for Prisoners. He has been the head of a large nationwide prison population study (WattuIV) conducted by the Finnish Institution for Health and Welfare. As a research manager he continues with further academic studies arising from the WattuIV data.

In his presentation, Rautanen shows key results from prison health examination study but also reveals lessons learned from the long journey of planning and carrying out a population study among people living in prison.

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