Onnikka has been recog­nised with the Impact Act of the Year 2024 award

Oulu-based com­pa­ny Onnikka has received an award from the Finnish Soci­ety for Effec­tive­ness in Social and Health­care. The Impact Act of the Year prize high­lights actions, inno­va­tions, and suc­cess­es pro­mot­ing social and health­care impact in Fin­land. The eval­u­a­tion pan­el par­tic­u­lar­ly praised Onnikka for the unique­ness of its method, the demon­strat­ed evi­dence of its impact, and its solu­tion to the grow­ing obe­si­ty prob­lem. Addi­tion­al­ly, Onnikka is sig­nif­i­cant to the nation­al econ­o­my.

The com­pa­ny has devel­oped a pro­gram opti­mized for smart­phones that sup­ports behav­ior and lifestyle change man­age­ment. It helps over­weight and obese peo­ple change their atti­tudes, thoughts, and behav­iors towards a health­i­er direc­tion. The result is per­ma­nent weight loss, as demon­strat­ed by exten­sive clin­i­cal stud­ies. Obe­si­ty sig­nif­i­cant­ly increas­es health­care costs. In Fin­land, obe­si­ty-relat­ed costs account for 8.4% of all health­care expens­es, and the direct annu­al health­care costs for obese indi­vid­u­als are 48% (€866) high­er than for the rest of the pop­u­la­tion. Accord­ing to the OECD, every euro spent on obe­si­ty pre­ven­tion brings six­fold sav­ings, and Onnikka offers ways to achieve these sav­ings in a scal­able and user-friend­ly man­ner.

Con­grat­u­la­tions to the Onni­ka on this sig­nif­i­cant recog­ni­tion!

Read more infor­ma­tion about the award (in Finnish)

Source: Onnikka