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Katri-Helena Eskelinen

Katri-Helena Eskelinen was a Finnish politician. She represented Kuopio in the Parliament of Finland from 1966 to 1987 as a member of the Centre Party. She was also the second minister of social affairs and health in the governments of Prime Ministers Ahti Karjalainen and Mauno Koivisto.

Education and early career
Eskelinen was born on 8 April 1925 in Siilinjärvi, Finland. Because her smallholder parents could not afford to send her to secondary school, she attended the folk high school in North Savo and graduated in 1946. Eskelinen worked as an instructor at the youth associations league in North Savo from 1947 to 1958, and at the Finnish Youth Association in North Karelia from 1959 to 1960. ==Political career==
Political career
In 1961, Eskelinen became the executive director of the women's branch of the Agrarian League (renamed the Centre Party in 1965) in Kuopio. She was also a member of the municipal council of Siilinjärvi. She strongly believed that parents should be able to be full-time caretakers for at least the first three years of their child's life, and advocated for a state-sponsored allowance for child care at home. She also helped establish the , a national organisation for retired pensioners. ==Later life and death==
Later life and death
After retiring from politics, Eskelinen continued to participate in local organisations in Siilinjärvi, including working to establish a local rehabilitation centre. In 2009, she was briefly hospitalized after she fell on a slippery road until she was found by a dog who alerted its owner. Eskelinen died on 14 July 2014 in Siilinjärvi, at the age of 89. In 2015, Siilinjärvi's local newspaper '''' conducted a readers' poll on "the greatest Siilinjärvi resident of all time"; Eskelinen overwhelming received the most votes out of 77 nominated candidates. ==See also==
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