Raimo Sakari Tuomainen is a Finnish health sociologist and one of the authorities in so called Kuopio

Kuopio

Kuopio is a city and a municipality located in the region of Northern Savonia, Finland. A population of makes it the ninth biggest city in the country. The city has a total area of , of which is water and half forest...

 discipline, which emphasizes the need to control the expansion of medicalization

Medicalization

Medicalization is the process by which human conditions and problems come to be defined and treated as medical conditions and problems, and thus come under the authority of doctors and other health professionals to study, diagnose, prevent or treat...

 in Western countries. His publications deal also with religion

Religion

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, science

Science

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, demography

Demography

Demography is the statistical study of human population. It can be a very general science that can be applied to any kind of dynamic human population, that is, one that changes over time or space...

 and health care

Health care

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 administration. He works at Kuopio University Hospital.

Tuomainen has a political career, too. He has been a vice-chairman in the party council of Finnish Green League and is a city counsillor in Kuopio. His ideological interests are especially in social ethics and social fairness. He underlines the meaning of social climate in human being's welfare. Tuomainen has presented the term ”green feminism

Feminism

Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women. Its concepts overlap with those of women's rights...

”, which means that people should get rid of strict male and female roles and the society should purposefully promote that.

Tuomainen has published some poetry and is a juryman of long standing in Finnish judicial system.

Tuomainen has five children.

Sources

• http://www.raimotuomainen.net/
• http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raimo_Tuomainen
• http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/tsph/health/society/medicalisation.html Public site concerning medicalization (by Markku Myllykangas and Raimo Tuomainen, Kuopio
  Kuopio
  Kuopio is a city and a municipality located in the region of Northern Savonia, Finland. A population of makes it the ninth biggest city in the country. The city has a total area of , of which is water and half forest...
  
  , Finland
  Finland
  Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
  
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