The aim of the Act on the Secondary Use of Health and Social Data is to enable the efficient and secure processing of personal data stored in social and health care activities and for social, health, guidance, research and statistical purposes, and to combine them with the personal data of the Social Insurance Institution of Finland, Digital and Population Data Service Agency, Statistics Finland and the Finnish Centre for Pensions. The Act on the Secondary Use of Health and Social Data determines the disclosure and use of social and health data in research.