Laura Tarkiainen
Biographic Data
| ID | 319373 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Tarkiainen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Tarkiainen |
| SIGNATURE | TARKIAINEN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2003-2531 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 122 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Inequality in life expectancy losses by education in Finland during Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a rapid increase in mortality in most societies examined. The effects of the pandemic have varied considerably between different populations, time periods and age groups. Studies also report pronounced socioeconomic differentials, with mortality rates being higher in lower socioeconomic groups. However, the evidence about mortality changes across socioeconomic groups is somewhat patchier. We use annual death …
Voting is a stronger determinant of mortality than education: A full-electorate survival analysis with 21-year follow-up
BACKGROUND: Although voting is recognised as a social determinant of health, the association between electoral participation and subsequent mortality at an individual level has not been established. OBJECTIVE: To assess whether voters and non-voters differ in mortality risk. METHODS: We used register-based information on electoral participation in the 1999 parliamentary elections from the full electorate of at least 30-year-old Finnish citizens l…
Universalism in flux – Welfare profit-makers’ views towards the institution of welfare universalism
In recent decades, the growing influence of profit-making in Finnish healthcare and social services has affected a core institution of the Nordic welfare state – welfare universalism. This study investigates elite views concerning this institution. Drawing on new institutional theory, we analysed qualitative interviews conducted with 22 Finnish owners and managers of private care companies who have earned significant income or wealth in the healt…
Individual and parental housing tenure and mental healthcare use among Finnish men and women in early mid-adulthood
Homeownership is a valuable status associated with better mental health outcomes than being a tenant. However, research has yet to investigate the role of duration and past experiences of homeownership, particularly in a context where homeownership is getting harder to achieve, especially for younger working-age adults. We estimate how individual and parental housing tenure is associated with mental healthcare use based on random-effect logit mod…
Gender and educational trends in lifetime risk, age at onset, expectancy, and survival with cardiovascular disease in Finland, 1996-2020
Despite the encouraging CVD trends in the overall population and progress in narrowing gender disparities, there remains considerable room for further improvement. Persistent educational disparities in CVD burden underscore the need for more effective interventions to address enduring inequalities
Coevolution of education and income inequalities in mortality: Is the double burden of basic education and low income becoming more lethal in Finland and Sweden over time
BACKGROUND: Education and income are independent predictors of mortality, but they also interact so that educational inequalities in mortality are larger at low levels of income. However, the average educational attainment in high-income countries has risen during recent decades and it is unclear how these associations have changed over time. We studied these interactions in Finland and Sweden. DATA & METHODS: We used individual level register-li…
Childhood family income and medication use in youth
BACKGROUND: Low family socioeconomic position is a well-established determinant of poor health in youth. Much less is known about the social patterning of youth medication use, and the current evidence is mixed. Furthermore, previous studies have not assessed important confounders of the associations. We analyse differences in youth medication use by childhood family income and medication type. METHODS: Administrative register data on full Finnis…
The winners of marketisation: Welfare profit-makers legitimising private profits in publicly funded welfare services
Recent decades have witnessed the expansion of market mechanisms and private service providers in publicly funded care sectors. In this article, we examine how elite actors benefitting economically in this transition in Finland rationalise and legitimise their role as profit-makers. Drawing on 22 in-depth interviews of such welfare profit-makers, who have gained significant wealth or income in the social and healthcare sectors, we investigate the…
What works? Researching participants’ experiences of a social policy RCT through qualitative interviews
Increasingly, evidence-based policymaking, in the form of randomized control trials (RCTs) in particular, are advocated as a means for studying the effects of planned social policy measures. Additionally, a Finnish basic income experiment was conducted in 2017–2018 as an RCT as a means of exploring alternative policy solutions, which gained widespread national and international political, media and scholarly attention. Despite the popularity of R…
Contribution of causes of death to changing inequalities in life expectancy by income in Finland, 1997–2020
BACKGROUND: Socioeconomic inequalities in mortality originate from different causes of death. Alcohol-related and smoking-related deaths are major drivers of mortality inequalities across Europe. In Finland, the turn from widening to narrowing mortality disparities by income in the early 2010s was largely attributable to these causes of death. However, little is known about recent inequalities in life expectancy (LE) and lifespan variation. METHO…
Poverty constructions and discursive strategies employed by participants in the Finnish Basic Income Experiment
In this article, we examine how eighty-one participants in the Finnish Basic Income Experiment discursively construct and make sense of their own and others’ poverty in face-to-face interviews. Using Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), we identified three discursive strategies the interviewees use to engage with and challenge culturally dominant poverty discourses. First, poverty was constructed as a tragic experience attributed to external causes…
The effect of cumulative childhood exposure to neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage on school performance-a register-based study on neighbourhoods, schools, and siblings
Several studies show that exposure to neighbourhood disadvantage predicts poorer educational outcomes among adolescents. Selective sorting into neighbourhoods, other unobserved childhood family characteristics, and failing to account for other relevant social contexts such as schools inhibit strong causal inference from the associations reported in previous studies. Based on longitudinal register data on the total population of Finnish children i…
A distributional approach to measuring lifespan stratification
The study of the mortality differences between groups has traditionally focused on metrics that describe average levels of mortality, for example life expectancy and standardized mortality rates. Additional insights can be gained by using statistical distance metrics to examine differences in lifespan distributions between groups. Here, we use a distance metric, the non-overlap index, to capture the sociological concept of stratification, which e…
Students’ learning reflections when using works of fiction in social work education
This article focuses on the analysis of 14 social work students’ MA course assignments using Lucia Berlin’s short story entitled ‘Good and Bad’. Our focus is twofold: We ask 1) How do social work students describe their learning when analysing Berlin’s short story; and 2) what kinds of skills do they identify as resulting from this learning? Our analysis indicates that social work students view the use of works of fiction in social work instructi…
Long-term trends in urban-neighbourhood inequalities in cause-specific mortality and hospitalisation – multilevel analyses among individuals nested in Finnish post-code areas, 1991–2018
The overall relevance of the neighbourhood context to mortality and hospitalisation was stable across time, and generally attributable to population composition. However, there were substantial relative area-level income disparities between neighbourhoods, which had grown over time
Deservingness in Welfare Policy and Practice: Discursive and Rhetorical Approaches
Rikkaat ja rahattomat -tosi-tv-sarjan köyhyyden ja hyvätuloisuuden ansaitsevuusrepresentaatiot
Artikkelissa tarkastelen Rikkaat ja rahattomat -tosi-tv-ohjelmassa suomalaisesta köyhyydestä ja hyvätuloisuudesta tuotettuja ansaitsevuusrepresentaatioita. Aineistona on kymmenen keväällä 2020 esitettyä jaksoa, joissa eri ääripäisiin tuloryhmiin konstruoidut suomalaisperheet vaihtavat elämäntyylejään ja käytettäviä tulojaan viikon ajaksi. Tässä artikkelissa kysyn: Millä tavoin Rikkaat ja rahattomat -tosi-tv-ohjelmassa representoidaan ansaitsevuut…
Experimenting with Unconditional Basic Income: Lessons from the Finnish BI Experiment 2017-2018
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The impact of income definitions on mortality inequalities
Income is a strong predictor of adult mortality. Measuring income is not as simple as it may sound. It can be conceptualized at the individual or the household level, with the former better reflecting an individual's earning ability, and the latter better capturing living standards. Furthermore, respondents are often grouped into income categories based on their positions in the income distribution, and this operationalization can be done on the …
Changes in regional variation in mortality over five decades – The contribution of age and socioeconomic population composition
Existing evidence suggests that within-country area variation in mortality has increased in several high-income countries. Little is known about the role of changes in the population composition of areas in these trends. In this study, we look at mortality variation across Finnish municipalities over five decades. We examine trends by sex, age categories and two broad cause of death groups and assess the role of individual-level compositional fac…
Association between neighbourhood characteristics and antidepressant use at older ages: A register-based study of urban areas in three European countries
Background Research evidence on the association between neighbourhood characteristics and individual mental health at older ages is inconsistent, possibly due to heterogeneity in the measurement of mental-health outcomes, neighbourhood characteristics and confounders. Register-based data enabled us to avoid these problems in this longitudinal study on the associations between socioeconomic and physical neighbourhood characteristics and individual…
Associations of neighborhood disadvantage and offender concentration with criminal behavior: Between-within analysis in Finnish registry data
The association between neighborhood disadvantage and crime has been extensively studied, but most studies have relied on cross-sectional data and have been unable to separate potential effects of the neighborhood from selection effects. We examined how neighborhood disadvantage and offender concentration are associated with criminal behavior while accounting for selection effects due to unobserved time-invariant characteristics of the individual…
Effortful’, ‘needy’ and ‘freeloader: Constructions of unemployed people’s deservingness in Finnish parliamentary discussions
This article provides a rhetorical discourse analysis of constructions of unemployed people’s deservingness. Data consist of transcripts from Finnish parliament members debating the ‘Activation Model for Unemployment Security’, from December 2017. In the analysis, three discursive constructions of unemployed people’s deservingness were identified: an ‘effortful citizen lacking control’, a ‘needy citizen deserving the welfare state’s reciprocal ac…
Income security in Nordic welfare states for men and women who died when aged 55–69 years old
Income security when health impairment or other social risks occur is a major objective of welfare states. This comparative study uses register data from four Nordic welfare states for examining equivalized disposable income during the last 12 years alive among men and women who died when aged 55–69 years old. The analysed outcome indicates the aggregate result of a varied set of income maintenance mechanisms. Median income increased in the Finni…
Contribution of smoking and alcohol consumption to income differences in life expectancy: Evidence using Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish register data
BACKGROUND: Despite being comparatively egalitarian welfare states, the Nordic countries have not been successful in reducing health inequalities. Previous studies have suggested that smoking and alcohol contribute to this pattern. Few studies have focused on variations in alcohol-related and smoking-related mortality within the Nordic countries. We assess the contribution of smoking and alcohol to differences in life expectancy between countries…
Trends in life expectancy by income from 1988 to 2007: Decomposition by age and cause of death
BACKGROUND: Less attention has been paid to mortality trends across income groups than those measured by other socioeconomic indicators. This study assessed the change in life expectancy by income over 20 years in the Finnish general population. METHODS: Life expectancy among 35-year-olds by household income quintiles was studied. Change in life expectancy from 1988-92 to 2003-7 was decomposed by age and cause of death. The dataset contained 754,…
Turnout and Education: Is Education Proxying for Pre-Adult Experiences Within the Family
This study uses a discordant sibling-based design to assess the extent to which education is proxying for pre-adult experiences and predispositions rooted in the family. It draws on a unique data set that combines official voting records with Census data on siblings and their parents. The results show that the association between education and voting is considerably reduced when parental education, parental voting and unobserved characteristics t…
Housing wealth and mortality: A register linkage study of the Finnish population
Socioeconomic inequalities in injury mortality in small areas of 15 European cities
Unemployment and subsequent depression: A mediation analysis using the parametric G-formula
The effects of unemployment on depression are difficult to establish because of confounding and limited understanding of the mechanisms at the population level. In particular, due to longitudinal interdependencies between exposures, mediators and outcomes, intermediate confounding is an obstacle for mediation analyses. Using longitudinal Finnish register data on socio-economic characteristics and medication purchases, we extracted individuals who…
Comparing the effects of neighbourhood characteristics on all-cause mortality using two hierarchical areal units in the capital region of Helsinki
A distributional approach to measuring lifespan stratification
The study of the mortality differences between groups has traditionally focused on metrics that describe average levels of mortality, for example life expectancy and standardized mortality rates. Additional insights can be gained by using statistical distance metrics to examine differences in lifespan distributions between groups. Here, we use a distance metric, the non-overlap index, to capture the sociological concept of stratification, which e…
Contribution of smoking and alcohol consumption to income differences in life expectancy: Evidence using Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish register data
BACKGROUND: Despite being comparatively egalitarian welfare states, the Nordic countries have not been successful in reducing health inequalities. Previous studies have suggested that smoking and alcohol contribute to this pattern. Few studies have focused on variations in alcohol-related and smoking-related mortality within the Nordic countries. We assess the contribution of smoking and alcohol to differences in life expectancy between countries…
Contribution of causes of death to changing inequalities in life expectancy by income in Finland, 1997–2020
BACKGROUND: Socioeconomic inequalities in mortality originate from different causes of death. Alcohol-related and smoking-related deaths are major drivers of mortality inequalities across Europe. In Finland, the turn from widening to narrowing mortality disparities by income in the early 2010s was largely attributable to these causes of death. However, little is known about recent inequalities in life expectancy (LE) and lifespan variation. METHO…
Dimensions of Social Stratification and Their Relation to Mortality: A Comparison Across Gender and Life Course Periods in Finland
Socioeconomic inequalities in cause-specific mortality in 15 European cities
BACKGROUND: Socioeconomic inequalities are increasingly recognised as an important public health issue, although their role in the leading causes of mortality in urban areas in Europe has not been fully evaluated. In this study, we used data from the INEQ-CITIES study to analyse inequalities in cause-specific mortality in 15 European cities at the beginning of the 21st century. METHODS: A cross-sectional ecological study was carried out to analys…
The changing relationship between income and mortality in Finland, 1988–2007
BACKGROUND: Socioeconomic mortality differences have increased in many high-income countries in recent decades mainly because of slower mortality decline among the lower social groups. The aim of this study was to investigate whether the changing socio-demographic composition explains the increasing disparity in mortality by income and the stagnation of mortality in the lowest income group. METHODS: The register data comprised a nationally repres…
The winners of marketisation: Welfare profit-makers legitimising private profits in publicly funded welfare services
Recent decades have witnessed the expansion of market mechanisms and private service providers in publicly funded care sectors. In this article, we examine how elite actors benefitting economically in this transition in Finland rationalise and legitimise their role as profit-makers. Drawing on 22 in-depth interviews of such welfare profit-makers, who have gained significant wealth or income in the social and healthcare sectors, we investigate the…
Comparing Observed and Unobserved Components of Childhood: Evidence From Finnish Register Data on Midlife Mortality From Siblings and Their Parents
In this study, we argue that the long arm of childhood that determines adult mortality should be thought of as comprising an observed part and its unobserved counterpart, reflecting the observed socioeconomic position of individuals and their parents and unobserved factors shared within a family. Our estimates of the observed and unobserved parts of the long arm of childhood are based on family-level variance in a survival analytic regression mod…
Poverty constructions and discursive strategies employed by participants in the Finnish Basic Income Experiment
In this article, we examine how eighty-one participants in the Finnish Basic Income Experiment discursively construct and make sense of their own and others’ poverty in face-to-face interviews. Using Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), we identified three discursive strategies the interviewees use to engage with and challenge culturally dominant poverty discourses. First, poverty was constructed as a tragic experience attributed to external causes…
Association between neighbourhood characteristics and antidepressant use at older ages: A register-based study of urban areas in three European countries
Background Research evidence on the association between neighbourhood characteristics and individual mental health at older ages is inconsistent, possibly due to heterogeneity in the measurement of mental-health outcomes, neighbourhood characteristics and confounders. Register-based data enabled us to avoid these problems in this longitudinal study on the associations between socioeconomic and physical neighbourhood characteristics and individual…
Associations of neighborhood disadvantage and offender concentration with criminal behavior: Between-within analysis in Finnish registry data
The association between neighborhood disadvantage and crime has been extensively studied, but most studies have relied on cross-sectional data and have been unable to separate potential effects of the neighborhood from selection effects. We examined how neighborhood disadvantage and offender concentration are associated with criminal behavior while accounting for selection effects due to unobserved time-invariant characteristics of the individual…
Effortful’, ‘needy’ and ‘freeloader: Constructions of unemployed people’s deservingness in Finnish parliamentary discussions
This article provides a rhetorical discourse analysis of constructions of unemployed people’s deservingness. Data consist of transcripts from Finnish parliament members debating the ‘Activation Model for Unemployment Security’, from December 2017. In the analysis, three discursive constructions of unemployed people’s deservingness were identified: an ‘effortful citizen lacking control’, a ‘needy citizen deserving the welfare state’s reciprocal ac…
Income security in Nordic welfare states for men and women who died when aged 55–69 years old
Income security when health impairment or other social risks occur is a major objective of welfare states. This comparative study uses register data from four Nordic welfare states for examining equivalized disposable income during the last 12 years alive among men and women who died when aged 55–69 years old. The analysed outcome indicates the aggregate result of a varied set of income maintenance mechanisms. Median income increased in the Finni…
Long-term unemployed Finnish interviewees address deservingness: Separating, declining and enriching as means of resisting
This article explores how Finnish long-term unemployed interviewees resist the unemployment category applied to them in interview settings by addressing different deservingness cues. Data collection occurred through group and individual interviews among 70 long-term unemployed individuals with limitations to their ability to work. During analysis, three means of resistance were identified and named: ‘separating’, ‘declining’ and ‘enriching’ throu…
Comparing the effects of neighbourhood characteristics on all-cause mortality using two hierarchical areal units in the capital region of Helsinki
Housing wealth and mortality: A register linkage study of the Finnish population
Trends in life expectancy by income from 1988 to 2007: Decomposition by age and cause of death
BACKGROUND: Less attention has been paid to mortality trends across income groups than those measured by other socioeconomic indicators. This study assessed the change in life expectancy by income over 20 years in the Finnish general population. METHODS: Life expectancy among 35-year-olds by household income quintiles was studied. Change in life expectancy from 1988-92 to 2003-7 was decomposed by age and cause of death. The dataset contained 754,…
The contribution of health policy and care to income differences in life expectancy – a register based cohort study
The results underline the importance of active health policy and health care measures in tackling socioeconomic health inequalities
Socioeconomic inequalities in injury mortality in small areas of 15 European cities
The changing relationship between income and mortality in Finland, 1988–2007
BACKGROUND: Socioeconomic mortality differences have increased in many high-income countries in recent decades mainly because of slower mortality decline among the lower social groups. The aim of this study was to investigate whether the changing socio-demographic composition explains the increasing disparity in mortality by income and the stagnation of mortality in the lowest income group. METHODS: The register data comprised a nationally repres…
Socioeconomic inequalities in cause-specific mortality in 15 European cities
BACKGROUND: Socioeconomic inequalities are increasingly recognised as an important public health issue, although their role in the leading causes of mortality in urban areas in Europe has not been fully evaluated. In this study, we used data from the INEQ-CITIES study to analyse inequalities in cause-specific mortality in 15 European cities at the beginning of the 21st century. METHODS: A cross-sectional ecological study was carried out to analys…
Long-term unemployed Finnish interviewees address deservingness: Separating, declining and enriching as means of resisting
This article explores how Finnish long-term unemployed interviewees resist the unemployment category applied to them in interview settings by addressing different deservingness cues. Data collection occurred through group and individual interviews among 70 long-term unemployed individuals with limitations to their ability to work. During analysis, three means of resistance were identified and named: ‘separating’, ‘declining’ and ‘enriching’ throu…
Unemployment and subsequent depression: A mediation analysis using the parametric G-formula
The effects of unemployment on depression are difficult to establish because of confounding and limited understanding of the mechanisms at the population level. In particular, due to longitudinal interdependencies between exposures, mediators and outcomes, intermediate confounding is an obstacle for mediation analyses. Using longitudinal Finnish register data on socio-economic characteristics and medication purchases, we extracted individuals who…
Comparing Observed and Unobserved Components of Childhood: Evidence From Finnish Register Data on Midlife Mortality From Siblings and Their Parents
In this study, we argue that the long arm of childhood that determines adult mortality should be thought of as comprising an observed part and its unobserved counterpart, reflecting the observed socioeconomic position of individuals and their parents and unobserved factors shared within a family. Our estimates of the observed and unobserved parts of the long arm of childhood are based on family-level variance in a survival analytic regression mod…
Income security in Nordic welfare states for men and women who died when aged 55–69 years old
Income security when health impairment or other social risks occur is a major objective of welfare states. This comparative study uses register data from four Nordic welfare states for examining equivalized disposable income during the last 12 years alive among men and women who died when aged 55–69 years old. The analysed outcome indicates the aggregate result of a varied set of income maintenance mechanisms. Median income increased in the Finni…
Contribution of smoking and alcohol consumption to income differences in life expectancy: Evidence using Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish register data
BACKGROUND: Despite being comparatively egalitarian welfare states, the Nordic countries have not been successful in reducing health inequalities. Previous studies have suggested that smoking and alcohol contribute to this pattern. Few studies have focused on variations in alcohol-related and smoking-related mortality within the Nordic countries. We assess the contribution of smoking and alcohol to differences in life expectancy between countries…
Turnout and Education: Is Education Proxying for Pre-Adult Experiences Within the Family
This study uses a discordant sibling-based design to assess the extent to which education is proxying for pre-adult experiences and predispositions rooted in the family. It draws on a unique data set that combines official voting records with Census data on siblings and their parents. The results show that the association between education and voting is considerably reduced when parental education, parental voting and unobserved characteristics t…
Dimensions of Social Stratification and Their Relation to Mortality: A Comparison Across Gender and Life Course Periods in Finland
Effortful’, ‘needy’ and ‘freeloader: Constructions of unemployed people’s deservingness in Finnish parliamentary discussions
This article provides a rhetorical discourse analysis of constructions of unemployed people’s deservingness. Data consist of transcripts from Finnish parliament members debating the ‘Activation Model for Unemployment Security’, from December 2017. In the analysis, three discursive constructions of unemployed people’s deservingness were identified: an ‘effortful citizen lacking control’, a ‘needy citizen deserving the welfare state’s reciprocal ac…
Rikkaat ja rahattomat -tosi-tv-sarjan köyhyyden ja hyvätuloisuuden ansaitsevuusrepresentaatiot
Artikkelissa tarkastelen Rikkaat ja rahattomat -tosi-tv-ohjelmassa suomalaisesta köyhyydestä ja hyvätuloisuudesta tuotettuja ansaitsevuusrepresentaatioita. Aineistona on kymmenen keväällä 2020 esitettyä jaksoa, joissa eri ääripäisiin tuloryhmiin konstruoidut suomalaisperheet vaihtavat elämäntyylejään ja käytettäviä tulojaan viikon ajaksi. Tässä artikkelissa kysyn: Millä tavoin Rikkaat ja rahattomat -tosi-tv-ohjelmassa representoidaan ansaitsevuut…
Experimenting with Unconditional Basic Income: Lessons from the Finnish BI Experiment 2017-2018
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
The impact of income definitions on mortality inequalities
Income is a strong predictor of adult mortality. Measuring income is not as simple as it may sound. It can be conceptualized at the individual or the household level, with the former better reflecting an individual's earning ability, and the latter better capturing living standards. Furthermore, respondents are often grouped into income categories based on their positions in the income distribution, and this operationalization can be done on the …
Changes in regional variation in mortality over five decades – The contribution of age and socioeconomic population composition
Existing evidence suggests that within-country area variation in mortality has increased in several high-income countries. Little is known about the role of changes in the population composition of areas in these trends. In this study, we look at mortality variation across Finnish municipalities over five decades. We examine trends by sex, age categories and two broad cause of death groups and assess the role of individual-level compositional fac…
Association between neighbourhood characteristics and antidepressant use at older ages: A register-based study of urban areas in three European countries
Background Research evidence on the association between neighbourhood characteristics and individual mental health at older ages is inconsistent, possibly due to heterogeneity in the measurement of mental-health outcomes, neighbourhood characteristics and confounders. Register-based data enabled us to avoid these problems in this longitudinal study on the associations between socioeconomic and physical neighbourhood characteristics and individual…
Associations of neighborhood disadvantage and offender concentration with criminal behavior: Between-within analysis in Finnish registry data
The association between neighborhood disadvantage and crime has been extensively studied, but most studies have relied on cross-sectional data and have been unable to separate potential effects of the neighborhood from selection effects. We examined how neighborhood disadvantage and offender concentration are associated with criminal behavior while accounting for selection effects due to unobserved time-invariant characteristics of the individual…
Students’ learning reflections when using works of fiction in social work education
This article focuses on the analysis of 14 social work students’ MA course assignments using Lucia Berlin’s short story entitled ‘Good and Bad’. Our focus is twofold: We ask 1) How do social work students describe their learning when analysing Berlin’s short story; and 2) what kinds of skills do they identify as resulting from this learning? Our analysis indicates that social work students view the use of works of fiction in social work instructi…
Long-term trends in urban-neighbourhood inequalities in cause-specific mortality and hospitalisation – multilevel analyses among individuals nested in Finnish post-code areas, 1991–2018
The overall relevance of the neighbourhood context to mortality and hospitalisation was stable across time, and generally attributable to population composition. However, there were substantial relative area-level income disparities between neighbourhoods, which had grown over time
Deservingness in Welfare Policy and Practice: Discursive and Rhetorical Approaches
A distributional approach to measuring lifespan stratification
The study of the mortality differences between groups has traditionally focused on metrics that describe average levels of mortality, for example life expectancy and standardized mortality rates. Additional insights can be gained by using statistical distance metrics to examine differences in lifespan distributions between groups. Here, we use a distance metric, the non-overlap index, to capture the sociological concept of stratification, which e…
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